When Hayfield K-12 Principal Grant Klennert, was preparing his high school graduation speech last week, he decided to get advice from an unconventional group.
Instead of talking to other administrators or staff members, he decided to stop by the two kindergarten classes and ask the students to give seniors some advice for when they graduate high school.

Finally, more than a year after the death of David Riess, his wife, Lois, has been charged in
connection with his murder.
On Wednesday, the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office charged Lois Riess of Blooming Prairie
with first-degree pre-meditated murder and second-degree murder.
Riess remains locked up in a Florida jail on an unrelated murder.

Marie Lavonne Baumgartner, 96, of Kenyon, died Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at Kenyon Sunset Home.

Frederick R. Heimberg, age 78 of Pine Island died on May 13, 2019 at the Mayo Clinic Health Systems, Rochester – Methodist Campus. A memorial service was held on Saturday, May 18, 2019 at Zwingli United Church of Christ in Berne with Pastor Karen Larson officiating.

Betty Ann (Johnson) Reynolds, 80, of Dexter, died Monday May 13, 2019 at her home, surrounded by loved ones.

For the second time this season, the Kasson- Mantorville girls golf team hit a new low. In most cases, that would be a bad thing, but in the game of golf, hitting a low is the mark of a tremendous season. The KoMets’ new low happened last week as K-M headed to Pine Island for the third HVL match of the season on May 20 and set a school record with a team score of
353.

Human trafficking is a problem even in southeastern Minnesota, members of the St. John’s Lutheran Church women’s group and their guests were told recently.
Sister Mary Eliot Crowley of the Sisters of St. Francis in Rochester and Kathy Flippin, a retired nurse at St. Marys Hospital who now is a co-journer involved with the Sisters of St. Francis, spoke at the Kasson church earlier this month.

Third graders at Triton Elementary School headed to the Dodge County Fairgrounds recently for a day of learning about safety, courtesy of the Triton FFA Chapter.
The students were divided into two groups with one group visiting a grain elevator while the second group was at the fairgrounds. The groups switched places after lunch.

Over the last few years, Kasson Mantorville High School staff members have noticed an increase of students and families needing things like food, school supplies, and other personal hygiene items.
That’s why after having success of serving about 25 families through the high school food shelf, a group of teachers and staff members will be revamping it and will be opening the KoMet Pantry this fall.