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Madysen Nelson (left) and Thackery Schar in the Mantorville Theatre Company’s production of “Dogsbreath Devereaux” which runs through Aug. 23 with showtimes on Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. at the Mantorville Opera House.

Cori Kennedy returns to the Steele County fairgrounds Aug. 21, opening for Randy Houser at the grandstand.
Kennedy, a West Concord native, has been rising in the country music world since she was a contestant on NBC’s The Voice (Season 28) where she joined Team Reba McEntire and advanced through battles and knockouts.
She appeared in Owatonna earlier this year at the Spring into Summer event at the fairgrounds.

Do you want your public school system to receive more funding without raising property taxes?
It’s a question voters will be voting on during the Nov. 3 election in a ballot question that seeks to increase how much schools can receive from the Permanent School Fund.
Soon after Minnesota became a state, 2.5 million acres of land were set aside to support the new state’s public schools in perpetuity.

The Olmsted County Board voted 4-3 last Tuesday to increase the boarding fee for the Olmsted County Detention Center from $75 to $323 per day per detainee, forcing Dodge County to look elsewhere for detention services.

The Dodge County election series is back. As voters get ready to vote on crucial local races the DCI will be asking candidates for local, county, school district, and state house seats a question each week leading up to the Nov. 3 election. The goal of the series is for voters to understand where candidates stand on various issues.

The origins of the upcoming ‘volleyball under the lights’ game on Aug. 28 in the KMTelecom stadium pitting Kasson-Mantorville against Triton can be found in Nebraska.
In August of 2023, over 90,000 attendees gathered in Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska to watch the Nebraska Cornhuskers play Omaha. The event set the NCAA record for attendance for women’s volleyball, and years later inspired a similar event in Dodge County.