Care & Share’s November fundraiser raised just over $50,000.
“This year we raised just over $50,000 including cash donations and auction items. It was a wonderful turnout at the new venue. We served a lot of meals, guessing about 200, and had over 100 auction item donations, said Care & Share’s Jenny Carrier.

Byron High School’s Class of 1953 celebrated their 71st year of “freedom” with lunch and reminiscing at Sorellina’s restaurant in Rochester on November 8. With only 15 members in their graduating class, they felt fortunate to still have six remaining. Dennis Sette could not join the group but spends his summers in Oregon and winters in Ariz.

Hayfield’s American Legion Auxiliary is observing American Education week November 18–22. Since 1921, the American Legion Auxiliary has promoted the idea of visiting our schools.

Cuts are expected to come to the Byron School District, and some of them could be drastic, after a $800 per pupil local levy ballot measure failed on a 3,159 to 2,283 vote.

A crash Nov. 6 left a woman critically injured and disrupted the delivery of some newspapers for one area publication.
According to the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office, at approximately 12:23 p.m., deputies and the Minnesota State Patrol responded to an injury crash near County Road 3 and 14th Street NW in Kalmar Township near Byron.

It was another successful dinner and auction for Kasson-Mantorville Care & Share last Thursday night, this time in a new location.
In the past the event has been held at Kasson-Mantorville High School but this year it moved to Kasson’s new Fire Station.