With many parents and grandparents in attendance, members of the Triton Elementary School fifth grade class received their certificates of completion for the D.A.R.E. program in a graduation last week in the Performing Arts Center of the high school.
Dodge County Deputy Matthew Stradtmann, who taught the D.A.R.E. course, presented the certificates.

For about a year, Kasson-Mantorville students fundraised money for their band and choir  spring trip.
That trip was almost ruined last week when inclement weather interrupted their travel plans.
It started off like any other trip, the groups of students and chaperones boarded the coach buses to head to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport to catch their plane. And it proved to be the last normality that happened during the trip.

Since being founded, the Dodge County boys and girls hockey programs have been miscast at the high school level. Due to the seven schools (Kasson-Mantorville, Byron, Triton, Pine Island, Zumbrota-Mazeppa, Hayfield and Blooming Prairie) that comprise the Dodge County program, the sum of half the schools’ enrollment has pushed them over the Class A threshold.

Triton Elementary School recognized its March “Heroes” last week along with announcing the winners of the monthly “Golden” awards.
Receiving Hero awards for their exemplary behavior during the month were:

Kasson-Mantorville High School has always had a proud tradition of success when it comes to its FCCLA program. That success continued again this year as 15 K-M FCCLA students will be heading to California in July after they qualified for nationals recently.

Two members of  Dodge Center American Legion Wells-Peterson Post 384 were honored Monday night for 50 years continuous membership in the organization.
Ralph Marquardt and David Marquardt were both presented with certificates by Legion member David Livingston.
Ralph Marquardt served in the U.S. Army in Korea, during 1955 and until April of 1956. He said he had been drafted into the service in May of 1954.

Ever since she was little, Jennifer Kelly told people that she wanted to be a veterinarian one day.
Now less than 10 years after graduating from K-M High School, Kelly is doing just that, as she is a veterinarian at the Carriage House in Kasson.

The public is invited to an open house on Thursday, April 18 in Mantorville to learn more about this spring’s bridge replacements planned for Highway 57 north of Mantorville near Berne, MnDOT has announced.

For the past few years, the Kasson Park Board and other community groups and members have helped beautify the community during the springtime.
That tradition will continue again this year as the JUST PICK IT UP litter campaign will be taking place on May 11.
The goal of the campaign is for community members to help pick up litter in town as a group.