With the 2016 legislative session over transportation remains the biggest outstanding issue facing the state, State Sen. Vicki Jensen told Dodge County Commissioners last week. Jensen addressed the board as part of her efforts to communicate with local government bodies in her district.
“I know the way it looked and felt,” Jensen said of the session. “Transportation is still the biggest outstanding issue we have.”

The Triton School Board officially went on record Monday night asking voters to approve an increase in general education revenue of $750 per pupil in a special election held in conjunction with the Nov. 8 general election.
The average amount levied by local districts in Minnesota is $1,000 and Triton currently levies $300 per pupil.

Farmers rarely get to show off their old tractors.
“If we didn’t have the tractor parade, they might just sit in the weeds,” said Bob Senjem, one of the two founding fathers of the Dodge County tractor parade. He, Frank Ness and Frank’s nephew, Tom, spearhead the event each year. The three men thought the parade had been held for eight years or so. It’s only been completely rained out once, said Ness.

Al-Corn in Claremont is continuing to do preliminary work in preparation for its upcoming expansion as the company awaits issuance of an air permit from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
The plan, said CEO Randall Doyle, remains that construction will start as soon as the permit is issued.
“As soon as the permit is issued,” he said, “we’ll begin. I’ll have the permit in one hand and a shovel in the other.”

Summer often brings changes to schools and this summer is no exception as a new principal has taken the helm at Triton Middle School.
Principal Mark Raymond left the district at the end of June, returning to the Austin school system to assume his new duties as HR director.
His replacement at Triton Middle School is Luke Lutterman, a 2000 graduate of Triton High School, said Triton Superintendent Brett Joyce.

harm this week as Dodge Center City Administrator Lee Mattson informed the council that Jared Oscarson has accepted the city’s offer of employment and plans to start his new position as ambulance director on August 8.
Oscarson was chosen after the city reopened the job search after Brett Rima and the city could not reach an agreement on compensation.