The Kasson Mantorville Telephone Company announced that starting in July 1969, telephone customers in Mantorville and Rock Dell could make direct dial phone calls across the United States and Canada. Kasson customers would be made available in the following months. It would take much less time compared to an operator assist call. It also listed the steps used to make these calls.

It’s the eternal question, right? How do you find and keep love? We’d love to report on that for a Valentine’s Day article featuring local couples. So if you’ve managed to find and keep love, please email Dodge County Independent reporter Renee Berg at ReneeDCI@kmtel.com or by texting or calling her at 507-529-9086.
 
 

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, most children develop extensive lists of things they would want as presents. As a child, the arrival of the Sears Christmas catalog was a big event in our house. This and any other advertisement that showed up in the mail was scrutinized by all the children in the family to complete their list of things they wanted to ask Santa for Christmas.

This is a very busy time of year. Christmas concerts, Christmas craft shows, cookie exchanges, appearances of Santa, and each town having a special Christmas celebration to draw people into local businesses. For many businesses, this is the make it or break it time of the year. To be successful, they must convince consumers that it is almost Un-American if they don’t spend an extraordinary amount on Christmas gifts.

A Kasson woman is seeking community support for what she believes is a community treasure.
Full Circle Wellness of Kasson broke ground on a new birthing center in the spring, and had a projected opening date of Nov. 1 that has been pushed back due to inflated construction costs.

At the beginning of November when we changed the time, I was surprised by the number of devices we own that tell time. My wife and I discussed this as we were driving. In our vehicle, there were two watches, two cell phones, and the clock in the car. It became pretty apparent that we are obsessed with time.