Bock News

Santa and Mrs. Claus were on-hand last Saturday, Dec. 10 in Bock to greet and spread Christmas cheer to children of all ages.

After being lobbied all summer, leaders of the small Dakota County town of Coates agreed to let Jake Jacobson open a liquor store in the building where he used to run a strip bar.

Dolores Johnson has made a trip to check Post Office Box 38 at the Dalbo Post Office almost every day for 48 years.

At 81-years-old she's the self-proclaimed "Oldest of the old-timers." Johnson, who has lived in Dalbo all her life, acquired her Post Office Box in 1962, the same year she and her late husband Morris purchased the old Dalbo Pool Hall and renamed it the Dalbo Tavern and Cafe.

In an open churchyard in south Minneapolis, a group of grown men and women are pretending to be airplanes.