The Kasson-Mantorville community is getting ready for its fourth all school musical. This year they will be presenting Shrek. 
After the new Minnesota Wifi Performing Arts Center opened as part of the Kasson-Mantorville referendum project, school leaders and drama department leaders decided to try an all school musical.

Members of the Dodge County Historical Society have been hard at work readying the Ashland School for this week’s Marigold Days celebration.
“We’ve been cleaning and scrubbing,” said Historical Society member Linda Jervis.
The Lions Club has helped with painting and the flower gardens around the school have also been cleaned.

The KoMets scored the first touchdown of the game, but after that it was all Mankato East as they scored 27 unanswered points to hand Kasson-Mantorville a 27-7 loss on Friday, Aug. 30.
However, the game was much closer than it seems.
Head Coach Broc Threinen said K-M had a good first possession until a turnover halted their momentum.
“We put a nice drive together on the first possession but fumbled the snap,” he said. 

The Kasson-Mantorville volleyball team kept their momentum from last year’s state tournament run going as they beat Rochester Century 3-0 on Tuesday, Aug. 27. 
Head Coach Adam VanOort said his team’s success came from its serving and passing prowess. 
 “I thought we served and passed pretty well,” he said. 

Jerome “Jerry” Joseph Kubista, 93, of Owatonna, died
Friday, Aug. 30, 2019 at Whispering Oak Assisted Living in Ellendale.
He was born Feb. 11, 1926 in Owatonna, the son of Wal- ter and Agnes (Skalicky) Kubista. Jerome graduated from Owatonna High School. He attended Mankato Vocational School for two years and Boiler Engineering School in Owatonna for six months.

Take time to pause this next
weekend during the 19th An- nual Blooming Prairie Cancer Auctions and think about how cancer has affected you, your family and friends.
Cancer has indeed touched all of us in one way or another. Our hope to finding a cure and for protecting our loved ones in the future lies with our survi- vors. Our increasing number
of survivors shows proof that research is leading to more

Part of my enjoyment with
the Minnesota State Fair is to go work at the fair doing, what else, newspaper work.
Besides doing stories and taking photos of local people at the fair, I also volunteer at the Minnesota Newspaper Museum, which is operated by the Minneso- ta Newspaper Foundation of which I serve on the board.

A rural Kasson woman has died in a single-vehicle crash in Dodge County.Sheriff Scott Rose identified the victim of the Labor Day crash as Lorie Alwes, 59.The crash near the intersection of County Road 15 and 265 th Avenue was reported tothe sheriff’s office at about 4:10 p.m. Monday.

For almost all of her life Kelli Jax has been in or around the world of childcare.
That’s why it’s fitting that she now owns her own childcare center in Hayfield.