When former Dodge Center City Councilor Josh Jorgenson moved out of city limits he was required to vacate his seat on the council.
Since he served more than half his term Dodge Center was not required to hold a Special Election to fill the seat and instead the Mayor was able to appoint someone with the consent of the council.

The Kasson-Mantorville vollyball team seems ready for the stretch run. The KoMets have been on fire since a couple of early season defeats in Marshall and
after defeating Triton and winning the Apple Valley Classic tournament title, K-M will turn their attention to
a section tournament run after battling top ranked Stewartville on Tuesday.

Last summer Kasson-
Mantorville junior Andrea Richard had a once in a lifetime opportunity.
After applying for a scholarship through YFU, which is an organization that stands for Youth For Understanding she
was awarded a scholarship to study in Japan for six weeks as an exchange student.

About 25 years ago Dodge
C Shelf volun- teer Dave Koehler came up with the idea to have spring Christian concerts to help raise money for the food shelf.
Since then that idea expanded into having an annual fall concert as well.
On Sunday, despite the snow, a room full of people gathered to Faith Lutheran Church in Dodge Center for the fifth annual fall food shelf concert.

On July 1 Colby Head’s family and friends woke up to the worst news ever imaginable.
After suffering from a random heart attack, Colby passed away at a hospital near his home in Wisconsin.
Soon after the tragedy Colby’s family soon realized how caring the small community of Kasson and Dodge County was.
Colby and his brothers grew up in the Kasson area and attended K-M Schools all their lives.

Say it ain’t so.
That’s the feeling that overcame me Sunday morning as I headed off to church and large snow flurries were covering my vehicle.
By the time I came out of church nearly three hours later, the ground was pretty much white.
“Wait a minute,” I thought to myself, “It’s only Oct. 14. What on earth is going on here?”

Last Wednesday was World Mental Health Day a day that is important in some way to almost every single person in the world.
While not all people have some type of mental health issue they most likely know someone who does, whether they know it or not.

A few years ago members of Dodge County 4-H started a sub group in order to learn about about different parts of the country and to specifically learn about how 4-H is different from state to state.
Kelly Vincelette, Dodge County 4-H Coordinator had done this program in other counties and helped promote it along with helping organizing the idea.
Since then they have traveled to Virginia, Pennsylvania and most recently Kansas.

In 2005 a group of Dodge County employees formed its own Dodge County Relay For Life Team.
Since then they have been nothing but successful raising well over $100,000 since the team was formed.
The team, which consists of current and former employees from the Dodge County government, has worked tiredly with different fundraisers and innovative ways to raise money for the worthy cause.