FAIRMONT – Across animal shows and exhibitor events, 290 4-H participants are raring to go with 2,257 total entries as the Martin County Fair draws near. For those who are part of the 1,386 livestock entries, the show begins on the 14th, when they do a livestock interview to discuss their ...
FAIRMONT—Monday’s Fairmont City Council agenda was short at just 33 pages and the council spent the majority of the meeting talking about discussion items. These included building code enforcement, pickleball and tennis courts and a city administrator evaluation. The council talked about the possibility of adding pickleball and tennis courts at Jeffery Kot Fields, as it was added by Council Member Randy Lubenow. Recently, both the council and the Fairmont Park Board have been talking about where to put new pickleball courts and the last location and amount being considered were ...
NEW ULM — Last Saturday, the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame hosted a virtual presentation tracing the early history of First Avenue, from its 1970 launch as the Depot to its rise as a world-famous landmark. Historian Jeanne Andersen scripted and narrated "From the Depot to First ...
BRICELYN — The Faribault County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call at 1:44 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8, regarding a hog barn on fire at 49391 110th Street in Bricelyn, from Frost Fire Department Fire Chief Nick Olson, who was a passerby. Olson notified the Faribault County Sheriff's Office that a County Wide Water Mutual Aid call was needed and that both Blue Earth Fire Department and Wells Fire Department Ariel's were also in need. Hog site workers were not present, and an initial attack was started by first responding fire departments. With the severity of the size of the fire, the ...
SHERBURN – PowerOn Midwest returned for another open house Thursday at the Fox Lake Event Center in Sherburn, as feedback from previous meetings led to one of the route options being removed. The project seeks to develop a stretch of 765-kV lines along eastern South Dakota, Southern ...
FAIRMONT— After several months of work and about a year of planning, the Martin County Courthouse murals are repaired, nearly restored and back where they belong in the third floor dome. The murals, painted in 1906 or 1907 by Franz Rohrbock, were deteriorating and becoming partially ...
