The 20th-annual Dodge County Expo will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 24 at Triton High School in Dodge Center.

Lorraine Bolster has been a calm influence at Kasson Eye Care since she started work early in 1986 – two weeks after the office opened.

Dodge County’s top emergency management official has received a prestigious statewide honor.
Homeland Security and Emergency Management has named Matt Maas as the Emergency Management Professional of the Year. He received the award Feb. 15 at the HSEM Governor’s Conference in Brooklyn Center. 

Owatonna High School has named Marc Achterkirch to be its new activities director, the school announced on Friday in a news release.
Current activities director Ryan Swanson said he chose Achterkirch as his replacement because he puts the students first, he doesn’t get caught up in politics and he always does the right thing.

It looked like a scene out of a movie. There were lights flashing, the power was shut off, and panicked residents were running through the fallen debris. 
Last Thursday night’s final CERT training drill certainly had the realism down. Among the volunteer actors was a woman searching frantically for her lost baby, a man trapped under a piece of plywood, and several others who appeared in dire need of medical attention.

Getting rid of family dinners can affect you more than you think. 
Family meals are important in people's everyday routine. Sometimes families don't have the time to eat dinner together due to sports or work. Eating dinner as a family helps you save money, improves your health, and is mentally beneficial. 

It's ever so much fun pulling your hair so much that only tufts are left, because you are at war with the computer.
We ran such-and-such a story not too long ago and it should be available, with the photos I took, in our virtual library. But lo, it has vanished into the ethernet. Just gone.

One of my most memorable assignments in covering the news came nearly three years ago when I ventured to North Mankato to meet a woman celebrating a big birthday. Oh, but this was no ordinary birthday.

The Kasson-Mantorville wrestling team has always operated under the mantra of taking things one dual or match at a time. The approach has made sure the KoMets leave no stone unturned as they navigate through a Hiawatha Valley League that has been traditionally tough and consecutive Class AA state championships.