FAIRMONT – After attending a Train the Trainers Program at MSU Mankato, Fairmont Robotics will be presenting what they learned to everyone, including attending educators. The program was put on by Minnesota’s Rural Experiential STEM Education Partnership Initiative (RESEPI). For ...
FAIRMONT – With help from state grant funding, Faribault and Martin County Health and Human Services (FMCHS) can distribute lock bags for cannabis as part of their campaign against abuse of cannabis. Substance Abuse Prevention Coordinator Kaley Hernandez said the idea for this came as a ...
WELCOME — The Trimont Farmers Market will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today, Friday, Aug. 14, at Anderson Park. This is the last time the market will have activities for children from 10 a.m. to noon. Fairy gardens and fairy wands will be the craft activity. Haylee Ammann-Ekstrom will read her ...
FAIRMONT—The Fairmont City Council held a workshop on Wednesday to begin discussion about the 2027 budget. The preliminary budget does not need to be set until September and the final budget and levy won’t be adopted until December. In the two hours allowed for the meeting, council did not get through the entire agenda. Council members Wayne Hasek and Jay Maynard were absent for the budget meeting. To start the meeting, Finance Director, Paul Hoye provided a draft of the five year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) but said they would focus on projects outlined in 2027 for the purpose ...
MARTIN COUNTY – Martin County schools in the Big South and Tomahawk-Valley conferences are going through changes as they move to the Bound system for athletic schedules. Fairmont Activities Director Mat Mahoney said having an online schedule where people can see dates, times and locations ...
FAIRMONT – For the past six months, adults on Minnesota Medical Assistance ages 21 and older, and the providers that treated them, have been dealing with a change that removes chiropractic care from this coverage. Dr. Scott Burtis of Burtis Chiropractic in Fairmont said people commonly come in to have their backs and necks worked on, and his practice also includes nutritional consultations. He had heard early in 2025 from the Minnesota Chiropractic Association that this was a possibility, and then that it had passed during that year's legislative session. In his 38 years of ...
