Byron High School was awarded a $45,000 Bush Foundation Grant to help reimagine the purpose and focus of school to meet the needs of all students in today’s world. This work is operated by 2Revolutions, a national education design lab, in partnership with the Bush Foundation. 
 

The Kasson-Mantorville girls basketball team had a strong showing at the Winona State Holiday Classic last week as they were able to take a game from host Winona and had a great effort against #8AAA Red Wing. While the KoMets were strong in one game, they showed they had plenty to improve upon if they want to make a run in March.

It was the last meeting of the year for the Dodge County Commissioners  last Thursday which meant one very important action item was on the agenda.
Voting on a final levy amount.
Before the levy amount could be voted on Dodge County along with all other local government entities are required to host a Truth In Taxation Meeting.

Christmas is a season filled with hope, inspiration, joy and happiness. Because of this, our newspaper came up with a special holiday gift for our readers.

As I get ready to board my 7 a.m. flight back to Minnesota, I look around and see people from all around the world traveling to places all around the world.
Even with google and other search engines I often notice that people don’t really know much about other states or about other countries.

A new byline will be seen throughout the DCI as Karen Jorgensen joins the DCI staff.
DCI Publisher is pleased to announce the hiring of Jorgensen who will work as a County Staff Writer.
Jorgensen knew that she wanted to be a journalist when she was a junior at Owatonna High School when she took her first journalism class.
Ever since then the Owatonna native has been apart of the business in some way.

Ever since she was a child Katie Macrafic knew she wanted to be a teacher. “This is what I was meant to be,” the Triton kindergarten teacher said.
She has 21 years teaching experience, the last 19 teaching kindergarten at Triton. Her fellow Triton teachers agree and she has been chosen as Triton’s 2018-19 Teacher of the Year.

 As I compiled the year-in-review items for this week’s edition, I also handled the important task of picking the top 10 news stories for 2018. 
It proved to be a great time for me to reflect on the past year of happenings throughout the greater community of Steele County. 

It was the first day of school during 2019 on Wednesday and for Hayfield Community Schools the start to the year was a exciting one.
 
On Wednesday the school held lunch in the new PreK-12 grade  cafeteria for the first time.