Tour provides insight into county roads and bridges

September 12, 2026

FAIRMONT— A tour of various county roads was taken on Friday afternoon by the Martin County Board of Commissioners. The tour, which made a few stops at county bridges, was led by County Engineer, Kevin…

In workshop, county considers impacts to budget

FAIRMONT— The Martin County Board of Commissioners held a budget workshop on Friday and they spent the majority of it…

Giddy Up/Imagine Martin gears up for Bohemian Hippie Market

FAIRMONT — Giddy Up Boutique, co-sponsored by Imagine Martin, will host the first Bohemian Hippie Market from 10 a.m. to…

Friendship Club to meet Monday, Sept. 14

CEYLON — A ladies group Lutheran Women's Missionary League (LWML) Mini Retreat will be at 11:30 a.m. today, Saturday, Sept.…

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…

BE looks to make various needed repairs

BLUE EARTH— At the Blue Earth City Council meeting on Tuesday the council discussed a series of unbudgeted repairs that…

Local Sports

Cardinals downed by Eagles

NEW ULM – A fourth-and-6 on New Ulm’s 11-yard line forced Fairmont quarterback Jensen…

PREP CROSS COUNTRY MONTGOMERY – The Fairmont boys' and girls' cross-country team competed in the Gerry…

Area roundup: Cardinals XC competes in Montgomery

Fairmont falls to New Ulm

Fairmont football aims to learn from last week's victory

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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