Saturday, November 2, 2024

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If voters in the Byron School District don’t pass an additional $800 per pupil ballot question in November, officials have made it clear drastic budget cuts would be coming. But what those cuts would be, and how much would need to be cut from the bottom line, won’t be available until after the...
In August, West Concord City Councilor Christina Wetzstein Peterson announced her immediate resignation from the City Council on Facebook. Now, Peterson says she isn’t ruling out being the next Mayor should she be elected, as a write in candidate during the November election. “I have had some...
Faith in Action volunteers A.J. Moosbrugger, Mary Beth Harmon and Cyndi Reed serve soup to community members attending the group’s annual Soup and Pie Supper Monday, Oct. 14 at Grace Methodist Church in Kasson. A variety of pies were also available. The well-attended event was sponsored by Thrivent...
A candidate for the Dodge Center City Council has been charged with assaulting a Dodge County deputy and with trespassing on school property, less than a month before the election. According to Dodge County Sheriff Scott Rose, Matthew David Legler, 48, was taken into custody last Thursday. At...
If drama is your first love, you’re in luck. Kasson-Mantorville High School and Triton High School are putting on captivating performances later this fall, with K-M launching “Annie” and Triton launching “Puffs, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic” by Matt Cox...
While the vast majority of school districts have free lunch for all students, following legislation passed in 2023, the Byron School District is an outlier. “When free meals first started during COVID, the Byron School Board, after consulting with students, staff and parents, chose to keep the...
Get ready to celebrate fall at the annual Fall Festival in Mantorville on Saturday, Oct. 26. For the early birds, County Seat Coffeehouse will be serving coffee flights from 8 a.m. to 12 noon. If an early run is to your liking, participate in the Haunted Hustle 5k, sponsored by Dodge Refreshed,...
When Dodge Center Ambulance Director AJ Gengler went to the Claremont City Council meeting last week, he expected to get a consensus about whether or not the city council would accept a compromise to the structure of the proposed Dodge Center Ambulance Taxing District. But he quickly realized there...
Byron school officials have scheduled a Town Hall meeting for 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, at Byron Middle School, to provide district residents with information on the upcoming levy referendum. Residents are being asked to approve a 10-year levy, with inflationary increases, to help cover operational...

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