Dodge County News

By Charlie Warner Argus News Editor "This certainly wasn't the way we were envisioning this.

With most trees starting to shed their leaves, compost sites are bustling throughout southeastern Minnesota.

In honor of National Magic Week, the Society of American Magicians Rochester Mystic 13 Assembly 205 will present "Strange & Unusual Things." The show featuring the Midwest's top variety, magic and comedy acts will be at 7 p.m. Oct.

The House Capital Investment Committee, has a tough job ahead of them as they pick projects in Southern Minnesota to fund.

Authorities are investigating an explosion in Dodge County. It happened shortly before noon at a hog farm just west of Hayfield.

Nearly three months ago, the Claremont City Council took what probably has become an all-too-common step across much of Minnesota: It voted to terminate its contract with the Dodge County Sheriff's Department, which had been providing law enforcement patrol services for the small community between Dodge Center and Owatonna.

It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall during the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern's celebratory train ride Tuesday that marked the completion of its 30-mile, $15 million track-improvement project.

Last year, 21 women and seven children died from domestic violence in Minnesota.

A 23-year-old Dodge Center man was killed on a stretch of highway 14 between Dodge Center and Owatonna.

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An accident early Sunday morning takes the life of a Dodge Center man. It happened just after one a.m. on Sunday on Highway 14 in Dodge County.

Two young men were killed in separate vehicle accidents in rural Minnesota on Sunday.

At least one person is dead following a head-on collision between a car and a semi in Southern Minnesota.

Dirt-track racing in southeastern Minnesota is no longer our own secret in this part of the country.

Dodge County Administrator David McKnight will leave his position Oct. 23 to become city administrator for Mendota Heights, Minn.

A Blooming Prairie man was injured Sunday when he ran off the road while driving his motorcycle.

Two kidnapping charges, one of third-degree assault and one of making terroristic threats, all felonies, against a Pine Island man were dismissed Friday in Dodge District Court.

With Rochester's public schools facing $5 million in budget cuts for the 2010-11 school year, we're pleased to see that a serious effort is under way to identify cost-saving measures at the city's three public high schools.

It's honey harvest time for Rochester beekeeper Russ Young. The retired elementary school teacher has approximately 480,000 honey bees in Kasson.

Jeff Brauer has been in this position before. He has won track championships at Deer Creek Speedway; more than one championship, in fact.