FAIRMONT – After having left five years ago, Fairmont Community Education and Recreation (CER) is returning to the Fairmont Elementary School this week. CER had most recently been in the south side of the elementary school, where the orchestra program currently uses space. When their needs ...
FAIRMONT— The Martin County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday heard information from County Engineer Kevin Peyman to discuss whether or not the county wants to continue to collect wheelage tax. Martin County has been collecting wheelage tax on each vehicle in the county since July of 2013. Peyman shared that 55 out of 87 counties in the state are collecting wheelage tax.Twenty-six of them are collecting $20, four are collecting $15 and 25, including Martin County, are collecting $10. The discussion comes as, a year ago, the county implemented a half cent transportation sales and use ...
FAIRMONT – A potential trail project that would extend between Alpha, Jackson, Sherburn, Welcome and Fairmont was brought up for the first time at Monday’s Martin County Economic Development Authority (EDA) meeting. The spark for this project comes from a MnDOT grant Alpha has received to do a Rails to Trails program. This would mean taking partially abandoned or little-used railroads and transforming them into trails that can be used for walking, biking and snowmobiling. The corridor that would be used is part of the former Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern (DM&E) railroad, which is ...
SHERBURN — CREST Lunch and Learn will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, Wednesday, Aug. 5, at the Sinn Family Celebration of Life Center in Sherburn. The program will be about wood carving, presented by Mr. Beckendorf. The program and lunch are free for Martin County senior citizens. Call ...
SHERBURN — The Sherburn City Council held its meeting on Monday evening. Several residents were at the meeting in support of the need for daycare in Sherburn. In the last month, two daycares have closed, leaving the remaining two daycares in Sherburn and one is ready to retire. According to the county licensor, there are no daycare license applications for western Martin County. An in-home daycare can only have one infant at a time. The residents reported several pregnant neighbors or Sherburn residents that they knew and supposed there were more in the city and nearby area. ...
FAIRMONT— On Saturday members of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) were in Fairmont to do Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) road check inspections on watercraft and trailers that passed by their set up at Gomsrud Park. Chad Thesing, a conservation officer with the DNR, said, ...
