CEYLON — Mother's Day is on Sunday, May 10. Thank you to all the area mothers and mother-figures to area children. Weiss Milling Inc. will have a flower sale from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays. Check out the beautiful flowers in Welcome. Coffee ...
JACKSON – With the Farm, Food and National Security Act (Farm Bill) of 2026 having passed through the House of Representatives by a 224-200 vote, US House District 1 Representative Brad Finstad went to the Fendt Lodge with AGCO Engineering in Jackson on Thursday to meet with local leaders and ...
FAIRMONT – Thanks to the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, Freshwater is launching a free well water testing program for arsenic. The program covers Rice, Steele, Freeborn, Waseca, Faribault, Blue Earth, Watonwan and Martin counties. Recently, they sent out 4,000 postcards in ...
MARSHALL — Rural Minnesotans have struggled with a lack of available child care for years. This week, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said it’s become even more urgent to take action now. “It’s really important to make the economic case for child care,” Klobuchar said during a visit to Marshall ...
Editor’s note: It is impossible to tell the story of the nation without telling the story of the Ohio River Valley. Long before interstate highways and railroads connected the expanding republic, it was the rivers that served as the young nation’s first true highway westward. Through these ...
WELCOME — During the Welcome City Council meeting on Tuesday, Mayor Dan Schmidtke said the school building has been sold and he expected some demolition soon. The old football field was not sold because of a title information problem. It is being worked on. Auditor Greg Burkhardt explained ...