Fairmont FFA shines at national judging competition

September 17, 2026

FAIRMONT – Out of 16 teams, Fairmont High School’s JV and Varsity FFA Livestock Judging teams placed second and fourth at the National Barrow Pig Show Judging Contest in Austin, Minn. this past Sunday. In…

Housing study reveals various concerns

FAIRMONT— A more comprehensive review of the housing study that was recently done in Fairmont by Bowen National Research was…

Park board tackles slate of ideas, concerns

FAIRMONT – With a blank slate, several topics came to the forefront of the discussion during the Fairmont Park Board…

Faribault Co. talks right of way

BLUE EARTH— Safety in the right of way of county roads was one of the topics of discussion at the…

Truman city-wide cleanup on Saturday

TRUMAN — Granada-Huntley-East Chain School has been celebrating homecoming. Tomorrow is Spirit Dress Up Day. Show your Jaguar Pride. GHEC…

Border to Border project edging closer to finish line

MARTIN COUNTY – Federated Broadband's Border-to-Border project, which has worked in select areas stretching through rural north and south Martin…

Local Sports

Cardinals seeking revenge against Waseca

FAIRMONT – What could go wrong, did go wrong. Fairmont football’s 30-0 defeat at…

Cardinals set season scoring record versus Worthington

PREP VOLLEYBALL FAIRMONT: 3, BEA: 0 BLUE EARTH – The Fairmont volleyball team notched its second…

Area roundup: Fairmont sweeps BEA

PREP FOOTBALL NORTH UNION: 56, RICEVILLE: 42 RICEVILLE – North Union football outlasted Riceville 56-42 on…

Weekend roundup: North Union moves to 4-0

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

The Fairmont City Council tabled another project at its meeting this week. This one is for…

Will they or won’t they?

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

Et. Cetera

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?

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