Hayfield Activities Director Chris Pack is used to winning.
In recent years, Pack cut down nets two straight years, as the head basketball coach for Hayfield High School, winning two straight state championships in 2021 and 2022.
In 2009, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Southern Minnesota State University.
Now add Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Hall of Fame inductee to his list of accomplishments.

After months of construction and detours, traffic began traveling on Highway 57 in downtown Mantorville Monday afternoon as the reconstruction work wrapped up. The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) also announced that work has been completed on the J-turn at the Highway 14 and County Road 9 intersection.
During the four-month project in Mantorville, construction crews:
reconstructed the road.

The following candidates have filed for local school board and city council races according to the Minnesota Secretary of State website.
Byron Mayor
Daryl Glassmaker
City Council (Elect two)
Steven Cook
Daniel Mesenburg
Claremont Mayor
Tasha Dahl
David Stein
City Council (Elect Two)
Deborah Ellis
Donna Gregory
Dodge Center
City Council (Elect two)

Going to the Olympics has always been something we thought would be an incredible experience, but, to be honest, it wasn’t something that we were actually preparing to do. This changed in May when we saw discounted airline tickets to Paris over the Olympics.

All winter Minnesotans dream of warm summer days. Now here it is with 2/3 of our summer season already behind us. So, whenever I have the chance, I want to be outside. It could be sitting on the deck reading, mowing the lawn, or even weeding the garden. However, it is even better if it is on a lake fishing, playing pickleball, or going for a walk or a bike ride.

With the primary and filing deadlines behind us, we now know what the local section of the Dodge County and Byron general election ballots will look like.
Dodge County’s commissioner races see the current office-holders up for election all running unopposed.
At the city council and school board level there are a number of contested races where multiple candidates are seeking to be elected.

Some of what to expect in the first 180 days of a Trump Administration:

Ian Gall, a 2021 Kasson-Mantorville graduate, recently graduated from RCTC with honors for law enforcement. Gall’s education included three semesters of classes in a classroom where they go over laws, ethics and more.

There is still time to take advantage of the early bird pricing and register for the 6th annual Haunted Hustle 5k and one-mile Family Fun Run in Mantorville on October 26.
Haunted Hustle is a fun, friendly, family event sponsored by Dodge Refreshed. It gives an early morning start to activities at the Mantorville Fall Festival.