A recent data request made by this newspaper is once again shedding light on what has been happening behind the scenes at the Kasson-Mantorville Schools.
About a month ago, this newspaper made a data request for school board members’ emails, along with emails for various teachers in the school district, for a period of time.
As part of the data request, we narrowed the scope to very particular key words, including DCI.

We are the last two of four daughters born to Garth and Betty Evarts. We were brought up on our family farm, which was homesteaded by Omri Evarts, our great-great-great grandfather. Ownership was granted to him in 1858. Everything we have become started on that land, on that farm.

Hands off our government! We won’t stand by and watch our government be treated like part of your Big Tech empire.
The Constitution clearly grants Congress power to control the budget and act as a check on the executive branch.
If you want top access to our government, you must follow the rules — meaning you can’t unilaterally slash crucial government programs or hide your efforts from public scrutiny.

Over 250 years ago, the framers of this country’s great experiment wrote the Constitution, purposely protecting the freedoms of speech, religion, and the press.

Two Owatonna women are launching an effort to help a Dodge County family become stronger than the storm.
That storm involves a Dodge Center family who lost a wife and mother trying to be a Good Samaritan just a day after celebrating her 46th birthday.

As a longtime English language teacher of adult learners and SE Minnesota resident, I’m dismayed that the flawed Laken Riley Act has advanced in the House and Senate at a fast pace. This act requires the mandatory detention of undocumented immigrants charged with such nonviolent crimes as shoplifting. With its overly vague definitions of theft and burglary, it raises serious concerns about due process.