The SELCO Author Tour 2019 came to Dodge Center last week in the form of Minnesota author William Kent Krueger.
Krueger, a St. Paul resident and writer of Minnesota-based mysteries, talked to a standing room only crowd in the meeting room of the Dodge Center Public Library. He talked about reading and books in general as well his own works which are set primarily in northern Minnesota.

Dodge Center along with sixty-three schools in Minnesota, will benefit from $2.3 million in planning assistance and infrastructure grants that support the Safe Routes to School program, the Minnesota Department of Transportation announced this week.

Valerie Sauder of Pine Island and Katrina Thoe of Hayfield will serve as Dodge County Dairy Princesses for 2019.  

When people think of small town weekly newspapers they often think of a paper that comes out once a week and that’s it. For some papers that may be the case, but I am here to tell you that our paper is the furthest thing from that.
From time to time, I run into people and entities that think weekly newspapers don’t have the same reach as dally newspapers and large TV news stations have.

The Dodge County Seventh Day Adventist Church served up a variety of tasty international vegetarian fare earlier this month at its annual International Food Festival.
This was the second year for the event, said church member Donna McNeilus, who coordinated the day.

Schools across the state and country are always trying come with innovative ways to help their students learn better, and to be prepared for the future.
That’s exactly the case for the Kasson-Mantorville School District.
At Kasson-Mantorville Elementary School next year, there  will be changes made which will help students be prepared for middle school and high school.

Daniel Schiefert, 78, of Rochester, passed away peacefully and quietly at Seasons Hospice House in Rochester surrounded by the love of his family on April 19, 2019 after a living courageously and graciously with prostate cancer for 15 years.

Funeral services for Roland “Ron” Leak will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at First Lutheran Church, Blooming Prairie, with Rev. Mike Walerius officiating. Visitation will take place two hours prior to the service. Interment will be in St. John’s Lutheran Cemetery – Danville Township, in Blue Earth County.
Ron passed away suddenly doing what he loved on Wednesday, April 17, 2019. He was 86 years old.

For 47 years, Steve Johnson, owner of Zumbrota Ford, has been in the car dealership business.
Last week, one of his most successful accomplishments may have been completed, when the dealership opened its new building, as they will now also have  a Chrysler dealership, along with its Ford Dealership.