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Open house gives look at downtown project

FAIRMONT— In another effort to seek input from the public and share potential plans, the city of Fairmont held a community open house on Thursday regarding the downtown improvement project. The open house was held…

Welcome Burn Site open Saturday

WELCOME — Today, 25 years ago, the world vowed to never forget. Remember the flights, towers and Pentagon attacks. The…

Preparing for an emergency

FAIRMONT — September is known as National Preparedness Month and an event this week at the Martin County Library in…

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Local Sports

Area roundup: Cardinals XC competes in Montgomery

PREP CROSS COUNTRY MONTGOMERY – The Fairmont boys' and girls' cross-country team competed in the Gerry Smith XC Invitational on Thursday afternoon at Montgomery National Golf Club. Cardinal boys placed 15th (356 points) of 27 teams, while the girls placed ninth (240 points) of 21 teams. Boys Cole Hanson led the Fairmont charge once…

Local Editorials

We’ve been here before

Sitting in the Fairmont City Council work sessions last week, I had feelings of Deja Vu. Haven’t we been here before? Are we not repeating conversations that have already taken place? With the roughly $12 million in Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) that council has available, it’s looking to spend about $10 million on…

We’ve all heard that we should not take things for granted, but it never hurts to…

Never take for granted

Thumbs Up Council OKs phase two of harvesting The Fairmont City Council approved going ahead with…

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Letters to the Editor

Readers' Views

 Paulson’s Water You Love!  Visioneering May 15, 2026 Denise Elston and Tom Hovey of the DNR sent a letter to Ned Koppen in Fairmont Economic Development and Mark Gaalswyk of Easy Automation explaining the newly approved pilot study process and a 9 page “Required Nanobubble Aeration Application.”. You may recall I have been trying…

It’s all in the name To the editor: When I was a kid, we had a…

Readers' Views

Regain control of the debt To the editor: The National debt zooms past $40 trillion on…

Readers' Views

“I.C.E.” is not Christian! To the editor: “I.C.E.” shouldn’t even be a subject that a person…

Readers' Views

Do you agree with President Trump's assertion that the Department of Justice should pay him $230 million for bringing cases against him under the previous administration?