Triton’s school board has authorized administrators to make recommendations for reductions in programs and staff positions.
Superintendent Brett Joyce said he expects the school district will have to cut $250,000 to $300,000 for the 2018-2019 school year. Triton cut about $380,000 for 2017-2018.

Anything can happen.
That’s what the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament (aka ‘March Madness’) is all about, and why millions of Americans will be watching the first round this weekend. 
However, to discover why we love this tournament, we have to go back to the founding of America. 

Guess what? I’m retiring!
My fellow Baby Boomers are retiring at a furious rate – about 11,000 each day, according to the Washington Post.
This includes high school classmates and many friends born from 1946-1964 (a long generation), who saved their money and can sleep late and do nothing if they wish, or visit Europe and Montana and Las Vegas and Sanibel Island, and set up shop in Arizona or Texas or wherever.

It’s that time of the year that gives me a little extra spring in my step.
I love every year when March rolls around and Daylight Saving Time goes into effect. Most of the United States began DST at 2 a.m. this past Sunday. 
Even though there are still piles of snow dotting the countryside, I feel a refreshing splash of spring hitting me in the face thanks to the simple little act of cranking the clocks ahead by an hour.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Minnesota presented several area volunteers with its annual ‘Bigs of the Year’ award this past Saturday in Waseca.
 The awards include four categories: Big Sister, Big Brother, Big Couple, and School Site Big. 

The Kasson-Mantorville boys basketball team had turned a corner in recent weeks as they closed out the regular season in winning five of its final six games. That momentum was something that the KoMets were hoping to carry into the postseason for a cinderella run as the five-seed in Section 1AAA.

Triton Business Professionals of America sent 27 students to the annual State Leadership Conference, held March 8-10 in Minneapolis. 
Three students won trips to the National BPA Conference, and 14 members earned recognition for placing in the top 10 of their events.

John Losee doesn’t have to travel far to display his equipment for visitors coming to the North America Farm and Power Show in Owatonna. 
As owner of Northland Farm Systems, Losee has less than a mile to go to bring his exhibit to the Farm and Power Show, which has become an important part of Northland’s marketing efforts.

There’s a Facebook photo showing a boy lifting his little sister up off the floor from behind, something loving siblings tend to do.
They are smiling big, enjoying the moment captured on film by a proud parent.
They weren’t born brother and sister. The boy was born in Russia, the girl in Poland. But they’re together now, laughing, and enjoying life in little Mantorville, of all places.