Sue Mataczynski, 68, passed away on April 26, 2018 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester after a brief illness, surrounded by her family and pets. 

Scott H. Easton, 55, of Blooming Prairie, passed away Monday, May 7, 2018 at Prairie Manor Care Center in Blooming Prairie. 
Scott Harlan Easton was born May 18, 1962 in Owatonna to Harlan and Marjorie (Loew) Easton. He graduated from Blooming Prairie High School in 1981. Scott then attended college at the Vocational Technical School in Faribault. 

Barbara Ann Witt, 86, of West Concord, died Saturday, May 12, 2018 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. 
She was born Oct. 30, 1931 in Rochester the daughter of Vincent and Zettie (Nelson) Pirkl. Barb grew up on a farm in Concord Township and graduated from West Concord High School.  

As I attended the memorial service for my former publisher Chuck Warner in Brownton this past weekend, I came across something that he had written about me a few years ago. 

As school comes to a close, so do the spring sports, music, clubs, and other activities. Only for them to then be restarted anew the next year. 

If there was a word to describe how the 2018 high school baseball season has gone, there’s a good chance that word wouldn’t be consistent. With a schedule that has been compacted into four weeks and teams that have been forced to practice indoors for the first six weeks of the season, there hasn’t been much times for teams to find a groove and start playing at their best.

The piano students of Cindy Breederland had their Spring Recital on Sunday, May 6 at Faith Community Church in West Concord.
Lydia Perry of Mantorville and Valerie Sauder of Pine Island were awarded the MMTA (Minnesota Music Teachers Association) Challenge Trophy for participating in the MMTA programs and earning 2,500 points. They are both seniors.

Triton’s third graders traded their usual classrooms last Friday for the Dodge County Fairgrounds in Kasson and Daley Dairy in rural Milton Township as part of Triton’s Rural Agriculture Safety Day. Totaling about 80 students, the group was split into two with one half touring the dairy farm while the other rotated between educational stations at the fairgrounds, switching places after a lunch together at the park in Mantorville.