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Breaking News: Crash claims life of Dodge Center teen

A single vehicle rollover has taken the life of a Dodge County teenager. The State Patrol reported Logan M. Maas, 18, of Dodge Center was killed in the crash Friday at 4:17 p.m. on 275th Avenue on the northern edge of Dodge County. He was a passenger in the vehicle. Three other people in the crash...

BREAKING NEWS: Arrest made with threats toward Triton High School

On December 3, 2015 deputies from the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office received a report that 18-year-old senior at Triton High School had made threats towards the school. Deputies were informed that 18-year-old Matthew Caleb McIntire had asked a juvenile friend in the hallway if they ever felt like...

BREAKING NEWS: Residents of Claremont evacuated due to broken gas line

BREAKING NEWS: Residents of Claremont evacuated due to gas main due to broken gas line More than two dozen people were evacuated from buildings in the 200 block of Front Street in Claremont Friday afternoon after a worker struck a gas main while working in the alley. The Dodge County Sheriff's...

BREAKING NEWS: Thanksgiving Day car-crash victim identified

The driver killed in an Olmsted County head-on crash on Thanksgiving morning, has been identified as a Byron resident, 24-year-old Casey Beach. According to the state patrol, witnesses reported that a Honda Civic was traveling northbound on Hwy 52 north of Chatfield, when it crossed the...

New print schedule begins for DCI

Beginning with next week’s edition of the Dodge County Independent, the newspaper will have a new print schedule. The DCI will now be printed on Wednesdays instead of the previous schedule of Tuesdays. That means subscribers will receive their newspaper one day later than what they have been...

Dodge County anticipates 2016 budget increase of 5.2 percent

Although budget discussions are still ongoing, Dodge County officials are anticipating a 2016 budget increase in the neighborhood of 5.2 percent, county board members were told last week. The figures presented at the last board meeting showed a 2016 net levy of $12,649,159.00 compared to $12,027,...

K-M construction: What’s done and what’s yet to come

Now that school is back in session, Kasson-Mantorville students have to adjust to the construction. Even though a good portion of the project is complete, there is still a fair amount of work left to do before the entire high school project is complete. Superintendent Mark Matuska says that, even...

City council tackles taxes, library budget and other topics

The School Resources Officer (SRO), the new library, the preliminary budget and tax, levy, backflow preventers and the city administrator search were all among topics discussed at last week’s city council meeting. During the public forum section resident Chris McKern asked councilman Coy Borgstrom...