The Kasson-Mantorville School Board on Monday will be discussing the topic of recording school board meetings.
Currently, the board records its regular meetings, but it is unclear whether the board also wishes to record work sessions and special meetings. The issue isn’t new. In fact, this newspaper reached out to the board in January asking for clarification or a change in policy, without a single response.

In April 2024, I got a pit in my stomach.
It was opening day for the Twins, and I was excited to work a couple of short hours, then head over to Target Field for Opening Day.
Then the email came through. Our publisher called an emergency all-staff meeting for, I believe, 10 a.m.
I knew right there and then what it was. Layoffs.

Kendall Hughes remembers his daughter telling him to come home safe before he left for work on Jan. 31, 2002.
A chaplain for a federal maximum security prison in Colorado, he had sometimes come home with blood staining his clothes. On that terrible day, Hughes was stabbed multiple times in the back and the head and nearly died.
“I almost didn’t come home to her and my family,” he said.

Kendall Hughes remembers his daughter telling him to come home safe before he left for work on Jan. 31, 2002.
A chaplain for a federal maximum security prison in Colorado, he had sometimes come home with blood staining his clothes. On that terrible day, Hughes was stabbed multiple times in the back and the head and nearly died.
“I almost didn’t come home to her and my family,” he said.

Four candidates have filed to run for the open Kasson-Mantorville School Board seat, according to Superintendent Beth Giese.
The four candidates are Sarah Stender, Jerrod Kappers, Denise Heidt, and Albert Brand.
This winter, just months after being re-elected, Amy Olson resigned from her position, which left her seat open.

A Hayfield man made his first appearance Monday in Dodge County District Court, where he is accused of threatening to shoot at members of the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office, then resisting arrest.
Matthew Charles Marshall, 37, was charged with one count each of felony terroristic threats and misdemeanor obstruction of the legal process. He was conditionally released without bail and is due back in court Aug. 20.