Biz Buzz shares business tidbits from across the tri-states. This edition highlights developments in Cascade, Iowa; Manchester, Iowa; and Cuba City, Wis.

CASCADE, Iowa — A popular ice cream shop has opened its second Dubuque County location.

Delaney’s Ice Cream Shoppe recently opened a new location at 120 Thomas St. in Cascade. The shop currently offers 32 ice cream flavors, with more on the way once staff get settled in the new space.

“Delaney’s means good, high-quality ice cream, and we carry more than anyone around here in terms of flavors,” said shop owner Matt Delaney. “We have something for everyone, depending on what you like.”

The Cascade shop joins the ranks of the original Delaney’s location in Farley, as well as three mobile units that the business uses to provide on-the-go sweets at area fairs, community celebrations and other festivities.

The Farley location opened in 2021 and now has a loyal following of ice cream fanatics. With demand holding steady, Delaney said the time seemed right for a second brick-and-mortar location.

The Cascade shop is easily accessed from U.S. 151, he said, and is located in the front portion of the Delaney’s Auto & Ag building on Thomas Street. It offers indoor and outdoor seating for dine-in or carryout, as well as a drive-thru.

“We’re excited to be closer to some of our customers near Cascade,” Delaney said. “Hopefully, this means it’ll be easier for them now that they won’t have to travel as far depending on where they’re coming from.”

Since the new shop opened, Delaney said he’s seen “overwhelming” support from the Cascade community with foot traffic that rivals that of the more established Farley location. Moving forward, he expressed excitement to capitalize on that interest to best serve new and returning customers.

“It’s just been awesome so far,” he said. “We’ve had a great response just from getting the word out on Facebook, so we’re ready to see that continue.”

The Cascade location is open noon to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and noon to 9 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Additional information is available online at tinyurl.com/DelaneysIceCream.

Manchester pumpkin farm under new ownership

A fall favorite is under new ownership in Delaware County.

Sarah and Scott Hermanson recently acquired Sherman’s Pumpkin Farm & Corn Maze at 413 S. Wayne St. in Manchester. The farm has operated for the past 44 years under Sarah Hermanson’s parents, Dean and Jackie Sherman.

“I really don’t remember a time I wasn’t helping my mom and dad grow pumpkins,” Hermanson said. “The farm is something that they built together over the years to create something really beautiful for the community.”

Sherman’s Pumpkin Farm & Corn Maze is an annual autumn staple that offers a themed corn maze, pumpkin picking and other fall activities. The farm also features a variety of wooden playground equipment, including a fire truck, train and a two-story pirate ship.

Hermanson said the family this year has planted 9 acres and 58 different varieties of pumpkins for visitors to choose from. This year’s corn maze theme is “The Mighty Oak,” a revamped replica of one of the farm’s earliest mazes.

“It’s one of the original layouts that my parents did, so we took that drawing and added to it as a way to really show our focus on continuing the legacy of what they’ve built here,” Hermanson said.

Sherman’s Pumpkin Farm & Corn Maze will open for the season on Saturday, Sept. 7. Additional information about the farm and its offerings can be found online at facebook.com/ShermansPumpkinFarm.

Cuba City funeral home expands on-site offerings

In a green binder under his desk, Richard Krueger keeps a list of the services he has helped facilitate in his time at Haudenshield Funeral Home & Crematory.

The list is broken down by year and includes the name of the individual, as well as the date of the service or burial. Flipping through the 2000s, the lists look relatively uniform until roughly 2011 and beyond, when yellow lines begin to appear in growing numbers.

“All these yellow highlights were cremations,” Krueger said. “You go back to the early 2000s, and you didn’t really see any, but all of a sudden in 2011 you can see that more and more cremation requests came in, and those numbers never really went down.”

Haudenshield Funeral Home has been operational since 1919 and has facilitated both traditional burials and cremations. For much of that time, however, the funeral home carried out cremations at an off-site facility and returned the ashes to Cuba City for the family’s retrieval.

Earlier this year, however, Krueger and his daughter and fellow funeral home director, Jill Krueger, took the next step toward improving their services with the addition of an on-site crematory in a building adjacent to the funeral home at 2424 State Road 80.

The pair said the goal in doing so was to better serve grieving families and reduce the logistical stress of having to coordinate transportation and use of the off-site facility.

“Doing it off site didn’t change the fact that the individual stayed in our care the whole time, but I think there’s still an extra level of comfort for families to know that everything is happening right here (in Cuba City),” Richard Krueger said.

Jill Krueger added that having the crematory on site has been helpful in conversations with individuals and family members about various service options and related costs, considerations and benefits.

In the funeral home’s showroom, she also can show visitors a selection of urns and other related items with clearly marked pricing. Cremation can be less expensive than traditional burials, she explained, which is one of several factors families might consider after a loved one’s death.

“We try to be very transparent with the families that we serve,” she said. “We want them to know all their options so that there’s never a moment where they look back and wish they had done something different.”

Haudenshield Funeral Home & Crematory can be reached by phone at 608-744-2400 or can be found online at haudenshieldfuneralhome.com.