When the Byron One Act Play Team began its rehearsals for the one act play competitions in late November, there was no expectations of making it past the subsections.
With a very difficult script to learn and an unusual one act play they would be performing,the expectations internally quite frankly weren’t very high.

For small towns like Kasson, the police department may go a whole year without any vehicle chases.
So far in 2019, they have had two chases with the same person.
According to a complaint, the first incident took place on Jan.4, when a officer was dispatched in Dodge County regarding a driver complaint. It was reported that her son, James Robert Novak, 29, was driving around intoxicated with a gun.

On Sept. 26, 1970, Dallas and Sharyl Herrick, were married at Trinity Lutheran Church in Austin.
The couple met in Hayfield at the bowling alley, where Dallas was in the parking lot with a good friend, watching a movie at the drive in, where he saw Sharyl walk out.
At that moment, he said he was going to ask her out one day.
And he did just that. Three years later and they were married.

A State Patrol trooper was assisting another vehicle on the shoulder of westbound highway 14 in Dodge County. A Buick, driven by Isaac Olson, 30 of Dodge Center, travelling westbound lost control and struck the troopers squad, which had its emergency lights activated. Olson was transported to St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester with non-life threatening injuries.

Marianne Catherine (Seykora) Warner, age 90, of Owatonna, passed away Feb. 2, 2019, with her family at her side. 
Mass of Christian Burial was Wednesday, Feb. 6 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Owatonna.  There was a parish rosary recited at the funeral home on Tuesday, Feb. 5 before the visitation. 
Marianne was born Feb. 25, 1928 in a Somerset Township farmhouse, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Steinkemper) Seykora.

Harlan O. Schultz, age 75, of Owatonna, passed away Feb. 4, 2019 at Birchwood Cottages in Owatonna.
Memorial service will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019 at the Brick Meger Funeral Home, friends may greet the family one hour prior to the memorial service at the funeral home starting at 9:30 a.m. Military honors will be provided by the Steele County Funeral Unit.

Cindy L. Andersen, age 55, of Blooming Prairie, passed away peacefully Saturday afternoon, Feb. 2, 2019 surrounded by her loving family at her son’s home in Hastings. 

THANK A SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER
MSBA announces next week as School Board Recognition Week
 

For anyone that knew the late Rita Buehler, they knew that she was a very kind and community minded person.
Aside from impacting hundreds of lives through teaching kindergarten and first grade at Kasson-Mantorville for 28 years, she also helped save over 300 lives through her generous blood donations.