The Lois Riess murder investigation will be featured in a two-hour “Dateline NBC” Friday night. The show begins at 8 p.m.
 
Riess is serving a life sentence in a Shakopee prison after pleading guilty last August to killing her husband in their rural Blooming Prairie home in March 2018.
 
She also killed another woman whom she befriended in Florida after being on the run from killing her husband.
 

As publisher of the Dodge County Independent and ADvantage for more than one year, our editor, Karen Jorgensen (a.k.a. the Great Dane), suggested that it was time to change my column from Back Home Again to something that is more in keeping with a person who managed to live through year one.
That brought on a conundrum – what would replace Back Home Again?

Timothy Dean Dahle, 52, of Owatonna, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021 at his home.
He was born July 27, 1968 in Rochester the son of Dean and Christine (Shaw) Dahle. Tim graduated from Hayfield High School with the Class of 1986. 

LaVonne “Bonnie” Jean Glarner, age 81 of West Concord (Berne), MN, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Jan. 17, 2021. She passed due to complications of COPD and Broken Heart Syndrome after the recent passing of her beloved husband Kerry, 16 days prior.

Eunice Eloise Sackett, 99, of Dodge Center passed away on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021 at Mayo Clinic Saint Marys Campus in Rochester.
Eunice was born on Feb. 4, 1921 in Dodge County, to Edward and Beatrice (Beldon) Sackett. She worked at Triton Public Schools in the library. She loved all the Triton students and always treated them with little gifts. She was very well liked in her community. 

Curtis “Curt” R. Frisk, 67, of Dodge Center and formerly of Byron and New Richland, died Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021 at Mayo Clinic Methodist Campus in Rochester.
Curt was born in Waseca, on August 7, 1953 to Richard and Isabel (Stennes) Frisk. He was baptized through Trinity Lutheran Church at home on the farm near New Richland due to the polio outbreak.  

Claude Dale Stafford, 89, of Dodge Center, passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 at his daughter’s home in Dodge Center  surrounded by his loving family.

Chester (Jerry) Louks, departed this earth Jan. 25, 2021.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Friday Jan. 29, 2021 at the Brick Meger Funeral Home, followed by interment at Sacred Heart Cemetery. Military Honors will be provided by the Steele County Funeral Unit. Friends may greet the family one hour prior to the funeral service starting at 10 a.m.

Last week was a busy week at home for the KM wrestlers. They secured three solid wins and outscored their opponents 185-36.  
The KoMet’s home opener was meant to be a triangular with Stewartville and Pine Island. As this year would have it with the every changing schedules, Pine Island needed to postpone their match up due to a COVID-19 concern.