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We had quite the pitcher's duel Friday evening in Kasson as the KoMets took on the Austin Packers.The KoMets took an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first after Dalton Maxwell singled to bring in Mitch Nelson. The Packers responded with one of their own, however, on a walk and an error. The...
Track and Field teams from the Hiawatha Valley Conference headed to Pine Island last Saturday to compete in the HVL Conference championships.
At the end of the competition, Pine Island won the boys championship while Byron took the title for the girls.
In the boys events, Pine Island had 219 points...
Byron’s girls track team reached one of their teams goals this season and that was winning the conference championship. The girls have held the title of conference champions for the past decade.
The girls were challenged by a very good Stewartville team, but in the end the girls finished with 197....
John Woodward attended Kasson-Mantorville school through second grade until his family moved to a hobby farm near Stewartville. He then attended school there and was involved in FFA and 4-H.
John started working at the Apache Standard in Rochester, a full-service gas station, now the location of...
Ashlyn Bigelow, 17, of Mantorville, was considering going to the University of Minnesota until the United States Military Academy West Point contacted her.
A Kasson-Mantorville High School senior, Bigelow soon changed course and decided she would attend West Point and play basketball there. “Once...
Area communities are preparing to observe the Memorial Day holiday with special programs and services on Monday.
Kasson-Mantorville
Kasson’s American Legion will observe Memorial Day with a program at the Kasson-Mantorville High School North Gym at 11 a.m. preceded by services at area cemeteries....
For the first year ever, Kasson’s varsity and junior varsity bowling teams both took 1st place in our bowling conference!
We are so thankful to have our amazing coaches who we owe everything to. Our varsity coaches are Al Houston and Mike Shaffer; our JV coach is Dan Ziebell.
This is awesome to see...
Byron’s Girls Track Team traveled to Cannon Falls on Thursday, May 6, and then to Stewartville on Tuesday, May 11. On Thursday the girls complied 135 points to Cannon Falls 28 and Lake City’s 11. On Tuesday in Stewartville, the girls amassed 94 points to Stewartville’s 48 to win the duel.
At...
Kasson-Mantorville’s KoMets extended their win streak to three games Monday night when they faced the Goodhue Wildcats.
They went 2-1 in the weekend Dick Traen Memorial Wood Bat Classic in Delano. In three games they defeated the Concordia Academy Beacons and Rockford Rockets while losing to the...
Mark Matuska was born in Olivia, Minn. during the huge March snowstorm of 1965. His father taught biology at Hector, Minn. and his mother stayed at home with his older sister. Both of Mark’s parents grew up in Jackson, Minn., and when his grandmother drove from Jackson to Olivia to visit him after...