Wednesday, September 27, 2023

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Dodge County Concerned Citizens (DCCC) has joined with Food & Water Watch and other environmental groups in a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the agency’s failure to regulate factory farm pollution under the Clean Water Act. The lawsuit follows EPA’s denial last...
His life was not without a purpose. Though Aidan Hegge took his life at age 17 on July 27, 2020, his memory lives on through a charity called Aidan’s Light. The charity has awarded six scholarships to area students interested in mental health, and reaches the community in various other ways as well...
A public meeting to learn more about the Highway 57 Mantorville reconstruction project has been scheduled for 6 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, September 27, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. The in-person meeting will be held at the Dodge County Government Services building, 721 N....
50 years ago September 26, 1973 Folmer Carlsen, Publisher Filings for Council Open Filings for the position of mayor and village councilman opened yesterday, Tuesday, September 25. Last day for filing will be October 9th with the general election to be held on November 6th. Filing affidavits may be...
Is Dave Hanson a farmer or a teacher? It seems both, as he tools around on his Dodge Center hobby farm on a golf cart. As he drives, he narrates about the trees, buildings and history of everything on his 10-acre Hanson’s Apple Farm. In between his narration, he fields incoming calls on his flip...
With the coming of fall many turn their thoughts to a Minnesota tradition, perhaps a midwestern tradition, — the church supper. The suppers take many forms from turkey to chili to Swedish meatball to oyster stew meals. And then there is lutefisk. Lutefisk has long been a staple of Norwegian...
(Editor’s note: Jim Allen grew up in Byron and graduated as valedictorian of the Byron High School Class of 1953. He went on to earn his medical degree and practiced as a neurologist and was also a clinical professor of neurology at the University of Minnesota. This is Part 1 of his story that...
Wendy (Jackson) Moritz grew up on a 60-acre hobby farm between the small communities of Pease and Long Siding, Minn. They raised cows, sheep and rabbits. Wendy and her brother would help at her father’s printing business in Princeton. She attended school at Princeton, and was active in volleyball,...

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