TRUMAN — Junk Journal Drop-in will be from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 13, at the Truman City Library. Junk journaling is similar to scrapbooking. If you still have any farmers market tokens please return them to Profinium Bank in Truman or Truman city offices. The remaining ...
FAIRMONT – At Tuesday’s Fairmont School Board meeting, board members had to make a choice about whether or not to go out for a referendum on building fixes, updates and changes. The vote will happen in less than three months, on Feb. 9, 2027. Board Member Michael Edman said this has been talked about at every operations committee meeting for as long as he can remember. “We looked at the needs of both our buildings, at the high school in particular, and our programmatic needs with our arts department,” he said. “We put it on the ballot, if you all recall, a question to the ...
MANKATO – Bravo Zulu House, based in Southern Minnesota with their male veterans' sober living house in Martin County, has taken the next step with a groundbreaking of their female veteran’s sober living house in Mankato on Wednesday. This step has been planned since Bravo Zulu House was ...
FAIRMONT—The Fairmont City Council once again discussed the state of the tree dump at its meeting on Monday. The discussion item was added at the request of Council Member Randy Lubenow who said it was a mess over the weekend. “I think the tree dump is really in disrepair right now,” ...
FAIRMONT – The Public Owned Housing Program (POHP) Grant Fairmont Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) is set to receive was re-approved at Monday’s brief board meeting, with a welcome addition. HRA Director Gail Diede laid out the details to begin the meeting. “They swapped people on us at Minnesota Housing, and the guy had messed up in the figures,” she said. The funding was initially approved at $1.9 million. Somewhere along the line a piece of the project, which is to cover plumbing, sewer lines and patio replacement across all 115 units at Friendship Village, as ...
FAIRMONT – With measles hitting its largest number of total cases in Minnesota in 36 years, local health officials are hoping to see more people be safe and get vaccinated. So far, there have been 80 total cases of measles in Minnesota, including an outbreak of 63 since mid-September in Fillmore and Todd counties. No cases have been reported in Martin County or the surrounding counties. Faribault Martin County Health and Human Services (FMCHS) Public Health Sanitarian Tim Langer said measles is a virus that can spread very easily through breathing. “If we had a meeting in our ...
