Thursday, March 28, 2024

Community

A look inside King Tut’s tomb.
(Editor’s Note: Dodge County resident Jim Checkel traveled to Egypt and other locations in the Middle East last winter. This week’s Our Neighbor details the first part of that journey to Egypt. Next week he will continue his trip to Jordan.) Jim Checkel started looking into possible trips to take...
For the first time since Center Fest in 2002, Dodge Center is holding a community-wide event over Father’s Day weekend complete with entertainment, contests and food. Called Dodger Days, it will run from June 17 through June 19. “We’re kind of coordinating different events that already happen in...
A Dodge Center man charged last year with impersonating a federal officer was sentenced last week in federal court on the charges. Reyel Devon Simmons, 53, was sentenced to 72 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for impersonating a federal officer and illegally...
When Randall Doyal moved to Minnesota from Texas a bit over 26 years ago, Al-Corn Clean Fuel in Claremont was producing 10 million gallons of ethanol a year. When he retired last week, the plant was up to 130 million gallons a year. In the 40 years he has been in the ethanol business, Doyal says he...
Jo Tempel is greeted by players after hitting the game winning run. She also hit a two-run homer earlier in the game against USC.
Byron’s Lady Bears eliminated a good Kasson-Mantorville team from the Section 1AAA Tournament on Thursday, May 26, by a 4-1 final tally in the semi-final round at Austin’s Todd Park. Byron: Ally Deyle, 0 for 0, run scored; Katelyn Winters, 0 for 3; Alydia Frericks, 0 for 3; Ashley Klomps, 0 for 3,...
Byron pitcher James Durst throws a pitch against Hayfield last week. In a Tuesday night game against Stewartville Byron was leading 9-1 in the bottom of the sixth.
It was a good battle on Saturday, May 28, between the Byron baseball team and the Austin Packers. The hits were all square at seven apiece, but the Bears emerged with a 4-3 victory in the Section 1AAA First Round Tournament. Austin: Peyton Ransom, 2 for 2, run scored; Nicholas Robertson, 2 for 3;...
Carol Johnson grew up on a farm one mile from downtown Spring Valley. They had cows, hogs, chickens, her two lambs, a collie (Laddie), numerous farm cats, a house cat (Tommy Claude), vegetable gardens, an apple orchard, corn, wheat fields, and big oak trees for playing outside in the shade. Her...
Kasson-Mantorville Elementary School and Kasson-Mantorville High School both announced recently that they have been recognized as 2021-22 Project Lead the Way Distinguished Schools. The high school is receiving the honor for the second year in a row, according to a press release put out by the K-M...
In its 50 years of melodramas, the Mantorville Opera House has been a place of romance. Six or more couples have met as actors on the stage there, which is just one of the many unique aspects of this remarkable theater. “There’s a love affair with the Mantorville Theatre Company,” said Karl Huppler...
Dodge Wind LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra, had the wind taken out of its sails when the Dodge County Board of Commissioners voted May 24 against the private utility’s request to use county road right-of-way to construct a transmission line from a substation in Sargent. Because Dodge Wind is a private...

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