Jeanette C. Underwood, 84 of Owatonna, formerly of Blooming Prairie, died Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at Traditions II of Owatonna.  
Jeanette was born July 24, 1931 in Blooming Prairie Township, to Anhart and Ina (Hjelman) Hansen.  She grew up in Blooming Prairie and graduated with the class of 1950 from Blooming Prairie High School.

As Cody Snow, 29, works his field on the outskirts of Kasson, he notes the positive.
“We have good moisture for planting,” he said. “It is making for good germination.”
Snow has a concern shared by most farmers, though. This field corn farmer is concerned about the future moisture.
“I’m hoping for a good season,” he said. “But we are hearing it is supposed to be a hot, dry summer. That would create some problems.”

Kat Perkins had one simple, yet important question.
“What would you be doing if you weren’t afraid?” Perkins asked the students at Kasson-Mantorville Middle School and high school last week.
Perkins, a season sixth finalist on the popular show “The Voice,” spoke to the local students and faculty at both schools in hopes of inspiring them to achive their goals.

The Kasson-Mantorville softball team is looking to establish themselves early this season. Even though their week started with a loss to Zumbrota-Mazeppa, the KoMets were able to do that by defeating Lake City and picking up a big win over Osseo to improve to 4-1 on the year.

The Kasson-Mantorville track and field team got its first meet of the season in on a beautiful Friday afternoon hosting Red Wing and Glencoe-Silver Lake. The meet proved to be a great opportunity to set a baseline as the season gets underway.

Two standouts on the Kasson-Mantorville softball team made their collegiate commitments official on April 14 as Chante Thome and McKenzie Hemann signed their letters of intent.

The Triton Elementary School kindergarten classes eagerly headed outside recently as they prepared to test the packages they had designed that would ensure that a raw egg could survive a drop from the roof of Triton Elementary to the ground below.
The students, with the help of their parents, took to the project with enthusiasm, bringing their packages to class on the appointed day.

Needed street improvements and an update on the wastewater treatment plant were among the topics discussed by the Claremont City Council at their April meeting last week.
Councilmember Marie Lindblom, a member of the Public Works Committee, gave an update on the streets the committee has determined are in need of repair.

The world seems to get smaller as I get older.
Last week, while talking to Kat Perkins from “The Voice,” we discovered a mutual friend. My buddy, Dan Linford, who was the principal at the high school my sons attended in Utah, has a son who did quite well on “The Voice.” Tanner is his name and when I played the “Do you know?” game after meeting Perkins, it turned out they knew one another.