Over the years you’ve likely heard the phrase, “It takes village to raise a child.” For obvious reasons, it often falls onto the entire community to bring up a child, especially in the world we live in today.
I have a slight variation of the common phrase as it applies to putting out a community newspaper. “It takes a village to put out a community paper.”
Quinten Erle Frarck, 71, peacefully slipped from his earthly bonds Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, at Season’s Hospice House, Rochester, following a courageous two and a half year battle with metastatic prostate cancer.
Some say it's antique. Others say it's just stuff.
My wife Judy has a couple other words for stuff. . . like junk and crap. I keep reminding her that this stuff she calls stuff. . .oh pardon me, the stuff she calls crap, is actually my treasures.
In its first year as a varsity program, the Triton/Hayfield/Kenyon-Wanamingo soccer team is still looking for its first win, after falling 5-2 to Stewartville on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Stewartville got the scoring started with a breakaway down the side.
The Cobras responded shortly after with a goal by Galen Anguiano off a cross.
The 1-1 score held until halftime.
The Byron girls and boys cross country teams nearly swept the junior varsity races at the Byron Invitational on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
Girls Cross Country Head Coach Tom O’Leary said they intended to run their varsity athletes at the Mayo Open, but it was postponed.
Despite varsity not running, he mentioned it was still a challenging meet.
The Blooming Prairie football team runs like a well-oiled machine, and unfortunately Hayfield was on the receiving end of the Blossoms’ offensive onslaught as they lost 50-12 on Friday, Sept. 13.
Blooming Prairie scored four touchdowns in the first quarter, including three touchdown pass from Kaden Thomas to Karson Vigeland to take a 27-0 lead into the second quarter.
It didn’t start out the way they hoped, but the Kasson-Mantorville football team came roaring back and beat the Austin Packers 36-13 on Friday, Sept. 13.
Interim Head Coach Joel Swanson was proud of the way his team rallied after the Packers blocked a punt early in the first quarter.
When stay-at-home mom Lindsay Jenkins decided to return to school, she needed to find care for her 2-year-old son Jaxon. Who did she look to? Those she knew.
Jaxon attends Jumping Jax Kids daycare center in Hayfield, which opened last month and has dozens of kids enrolled. Owner Kelli Jax held an open house and ribbon cutting on Saturday, Sept. 7, and many community members turned out in support.
A Dodge County man has come away as the big winner in a first of its kind fundraiser featuring guns of all things.
Brady Kramer of Hayfield was the winner of the first Gun Bingo game on Thursday night, Sept. 12 at the Servicemen's Club in Blooming Prairie. He was given a certificate to pick up his gun at the Weibke Fur Company in Eitzen, Minn.
The synod that comprises all the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America parishes throughout southeastern Minnesota, including Dodge County, has a new bishop.
On Saturday, St. John Lutheran Church in Owatonna hosted the installation service for the Rev. Regina Hassanally as bishop of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod of the ELCA.
