For the past 10 years I have been involved in the sport of track and field either as athlete or a coach, competing in both high school and at the Division 2 collegiate level.
Although I have been involved with the sport for so long, 10 years ago I couldn’t have imagined myself ever being apart of a track and field team.

West Concord residents stepped up again this year to donate a record number of socks and air fresheners for the veterans at the Minnesota Veterans Home in Hastings.
Each year the West Concord American Legion Auxiliary collects the socks and air fresheners for the veterans. Staff at the home say that new socks are always one of the most needed items and the air fresheners are also always welcome.

Summer Art Camps return to the Mantorville Art Guild this year.
Seventeen art programs are scheduled throughout the summer, said the Art Guild’s Theresa Hoaglund.

Triton High School classrooms will each have an American flag when school resumes next fall thanks to the efforts of several Triton area groups.
The 26 flags and stands were presented to Triton High School officials last week.

Almost four decades ago, Bryan Johnson began his career as a driver's education teacher for Kasson-Mantorville.
Although, he will still be continuing to teach the course this fall, he will be passing off his responsibility of being the drivers education coordinator, to Dillon Denter, who has been teaching driver's education under Johnson for almost a decade.

Last Thursday, members of the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office, were called to a farm home in rural Byron, for someone who may had been shot.
After hours of having County Road 3 shut down, and multiple agencies investigating, Captain Scott Behrns, of the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office, explained that they aren’t sure if any guns were actually shot.

Four years ago, Kasson-Mantorville High School Principal Trent Langemo, and a freshman class started at the school together.
Now four years later, that same class walked across the graduation stage, on Sunday.

Karissa Otterbein says she has been drawing since she was a little child. “Since I could write I’ve been
drawing,” she said.
While she hasn’t taken an art class since ninth grade she has continued to draw, has been a member of
the Triton Art Club and is capping her high school career by designing and painting the 2019 Class Mural
on a wall outside the office.

15 years ago Josh Larsen graduated from Kasson-Mantorville High School.
This September, the current Stewartville Middle School principal will once again be in the district, this time as the K-M Middle School Principal.
Larsen was chosen after 33 candidates applied to be the next middle school principal. The search began after  current principal Erin Kylo accepted a middle school principal position in Colorado.