Triton schools officials say the district may have to make difficult cuts since voters denied an increase in the 2018 operational levy.
Rory Ginder is having none of that.
The Dodge Center resident decided to chip in funds from her own savings account to try and help the district.
“I don’t care about myself. I care about other people,” she said. “When something bad happens, I’ll donate it.”

Kasson-Mantorville Middle School students were out and about Tuesday, helping out with various community service projects during an advisory community service day.
They were seen raking at the Dodge County Courthouse Annex in Mantorville, and packaging items for people in need at Just Like Home Child Care in Kasson.
The kids in Mantorville, some 40 strong, joyously tossed around nearly as many leaves as they raked.

Kasson-Mantorville High School celebrated Homecoming Week in style this past week, with dress-up days, all sorts of contests, a coronation ceremony, parade and pep fest.
Eli Herbst and Kaitlyn McNeil were crowned King and Queen before the big Homecoming parade on Oct. 6.

The Dodge County Sheriff has confirmed his office is investigating a possible tornado touchdown Wednesday afternoon north of Claremont.
Sheriff Scott Rose told the DCI that emergency management director Matt Maas will be surveying damage with weather officials to determine if it was a tornado that touched down on the Kent Schmidt turkey farm about two miles north of Claremont near the Steele-Dodge border.

Sgt. Rich Allee was sending items through Dodge County’s new 3D security scanner last week when he found something interesting: a razor blade, stuck between two business cards.
The incident at the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office turned out to be innocuous, though the pocketbook’s owner was warned not to try and send such an item through again.

A Rochester man has been charged in connection with the drug overdose death of a Dodge Center man in early December.
Donte D’Andre Wilkins, 19, faces two counts of second-degree and third-degree murder in the death of Tyler Reed Gray. Wilkins appeared in Dodge County District Court Friday morning where the judge set bail at $250,000 unconditional or $125,000 with conditions.