If the number of cars in the Triton High School parking lot Saturday morning was any indication, the 18th annual Dodge County Home and Business Expo was a great success.

The Kasson-Mantorville softball team opened up their season with a 7-1 victory over Northfield on Monday afternoon as they look to defend their back-to-back state championships. To pick up the victory, the KoMets used the familiar formula of strong pitching and a balanced attack throughout the lineup.

The Triton track and field team was able to get away from the mid-week snow and get their first meet of the season in last Thursday as part of the Early Bird Indoor at St. Mary’s University in Winona. The competition was a great chance for the Cobras to set the tone for the year and they did so by setting the bar high in several events.

Fourth, fifth and sixth graders from schools in the Zumbro Education District descended on Triton High School last Friday to show their science projects as part of the 24th Annual  ZED Science Fair.

Citizens Concerned About Rail Line (CCARL) will have its next meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, at the Kenyon Wanamingo Elementary School, 225 Third Ave., Wanamingo.

You have probably noticed them in commercial areas and on lawns. Usually small depressions in the landscape filled with a variety of flowers and plants.

This week I’m going to share with you a chapter from true confessions of a convict turned journalist. The suspense thriller that’s about to unravel may make you never think the same about this publisher. 
As you’re about to find out, my fascination with crime began at a very young age. Fourteen years old to be precise. 

Dorothy M. Miller, age 90, of the Kasson - Mantorville area, died on Saturday, April 2, 2016, at Mayo Clinic Hospital – St. Marys Campus in Rochester. 

Margaret J. “Muggs” Glidden, 80, of Tuscumbia, Alabama, passed away peacefully at her home on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 with family by her side.   She was born December 23, 1935 in Kasson, Minnesota.  
Margaret worked her entire career as a surgical technician at Methodist Hospital in Rochester, MN and later in Scottsdale, AZ.  She was married to William Glidden and they were later divorced.