Mantorville kicks off the summer melodrama season this Friday night with the “The Inheritance or Not Dead Yet” by Nan Strauss.
While recuperating from an illness, the kindly and well-to-do Augusta Richards realizes not everyone is keen on her recovery. Can her caring friends thwart her evil family? Can the good doctor come to her aid? Can love find a way for a happy ending? Yes, of course! This is Mantorville.

The conviction of a former leader at the Kasson Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who sexually assaulted a boy from the church will remain in place.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals rejected several claims in the case of Michael Adam Davis, now 39, in a ruling issued last week.

The Friendship Wagon Train heads out for the 36th year on Saturday, June 22, according to Wagon Master John Davis. The train is raising funds for the Minnesota Special Olympics.
This year’s event will have 18-20 wagon teams taking part with horseback riders coming from as far as Alabama and Louisiana, Davis said.

A state bonding bill, which helps provide needed funds for different infrastructure projects across the state, wasn’t voted on this year in St. Paul, which has now left some communities in Greater Minnesota, and elsewhere concerned about how crucial projects will get done.
One of the communities left without needed funding is the city of Byron.

How can you go wrong with a street dance, dog shows and bingo?
Dodger Days, now in its third year, has it all and is scheduled from June 13-16 in Dodge Center. The festival is designed as a city-wide celebration, said co-organizer Kristy Faber.
Hundreds attended last year. “We’ve greatly expanded our offerings,” she said. “We’re hoping word is getting out and we’d love to double it.”

Last week I wrote about the graduating seniors and speculated about where their lives would lead them. It got me to thinking about how I ended up in Kasson. For most of us, home is where we grew up.