Ross and Jan Mickelsen moved to Kasson in January last year to be closer to their daughter who is ill. Ross retired from the U.S. Post Office and also worked as a cameraman at a TV station and as a driver for a van to transport disabled people to appointments.
 

As manager of a local fitness club, Ashley Applen had only met a teenager who used the gym on the night before he committed suicide. But the tragedy has inspired her to lead a crusade to spread awareness of mental health issues. 
“He played with my son and was very well known for interacting with young kids,” Applen said of Wyatt Coy, a Kasson-Mantorville senior who took his life Jan. 19. “He was a great role model.”

One year ago, the Kasson-Mantorville wrestling team put an exclamation point on the dominant season they were having on its way to the program’s second state championship. With nine wrestlers qualifying for the state tournament, it showed the top-level talent that the school has produced in order to become one of the best teams in the state.

Several Triton students received Honorable Mention in the 24th-annual Zumbro Education District’s Creative Writing Contest.
The contest is for students in grades 5-12. This year’s theme: “The Day I Met …”
The students chose how to interpret the prompt, and let their creativity take them away in the form of poetry or prose.

Child actors, senior citizens, and everyone in between are hamming it up, doing their outlandish best during rehearsal for the Mantorville Theatre Company’s performance of Honk!
Company president Patrick Quint has to smile as they carry on.

t came many years later, but a well-deserved honor found its way to a fallen Hayfield police chief and his widow within the past few weeks. 

2008 Ford F150 Vin#1FTRF12298KEO6529 will be sold at 8:00 a.m. on March 17, 2017 at 206 First Street SW, Dodge Center, Minnesota for $4500.00 to recover repair costs not paid. N:11-13c
 

On Monday, March 13 at 6:30 pm in the City Council Chambers, the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Kasson will hold the following Public Hearings:
1.  Bigelow Voigt Land Development has submitted a Final Plat for land described as 1500 W Main St and That part of the Northeast Quarter of Section 32, Township 107 North, Range 16 West, Dodge County, Minnesota, described as follows:

The Claremont Township Board Annual Meeting and Election will be held on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at the American Legion Hall in Claremont, Minnesota.
The annual meeting will commence at 3:00 p.m. before the election. 
Polls will be open following the meeting or no later than 5 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. for the purpose of electing:
One (1) Supervisor for (3) years
One (1) Treasurer for (2) years