Mantorville News

With demand falling because of the recession, the price farmers receive for their milk has fallen from $18.45 per hundredweight last year at this time to $10.45 this year.

MANTORVILLE -- Charles Henry Dahms, age 72 of Mantorville, died Wednesday, July 1, 2009, in his home, from a long battle with cancer.

MANTORVILLE -- Norma L. Kracht, 87, died Sunday, June 28, 2009, of ovarian cancer, at her daughter's home.

The door was open to Gary Thompson's office Tuesday afternoon, the last day he would be in the office of Dodge County sheriff.

When Parul Mishra dared to enter an IBM Toastmasters Club speech contest, her inner voice jeered at her.

Another season of melodrama begins this weekend with the opening of "Running in Crop Circles, or The Spaceman Cometh" at the Mantorville Opera House.

Three employees from an online Twin Cities charter school are planning to start their own version in Rochester.

Three area girls had lofty finishes in final events on Friday at the Class A girls state track and field meet.

When a donor family challenged Byron High School students to match its $1,000 donation to a fund for a fellow student with cancer, students took the challenge to heart.

On a cold, rainy day that had the feel of mid-November -- not early June -- the Kasson-Mantorville 3,200 relay team ignored the elements Saturday and ran faster than they'd ever run before.

When the final bell rings signifying the end of the school year, three southeastern Minnesota schools will be closing their doors for good.

It was at the close of last track and field season that brother and sister Logan and Laurel Ramer made their decision.

Comments SECTION 1AA FINAL FOUR Championship round La Crescent 12, Plainview-Elgin-Millville 7 La Crescent forced a second and deciding championship by rallying for three runs in the top of the seventh to tie the game, and five more in the eighth for the comeback win at Hudson Field on Tuesday night.

SECTION 1AA FINAL FOUR FIRST ROUND PEM 1, Kasson-Mantorville 0 Plainview-Elgin-Millville scored a run in the top of the seventh to break a scoreless tie and settle a pitcher's duel between the Bulldogs' Ben Kielholtz and Kasson-Mantorville's Trevor Larsen

The southern gospel group Gone Fishin' will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Mantorville Opera House.

The first wedding held at Michaels Restaurant was a long time coming. As far as anyone remembered, no other wedding has taken place at the historic restaurant in downtown Rochester during the past 57 years.

Ewan Ferguson of Stewartville prefers to avoid attention, but that isn't easy when you wear a kilt and play the bagpipe.

Richardson-Larsen Couple: Heather Richardson and Josh Larsen Parents: Tim and Laura Richardson of Mantorville, and Jim and Dorothy Larsen of Kasson.

If you're not sure what to get the graduate in your life, here are a few hints from graduating seniors in southeastern Minnesota.

Carter Espinoza never met his great-grandfather, Wayne Suhr; he died nearly 15 years before Carter was born.