FAIRMONT— Parents of students in the Fairmont Area School District were notified via email on Wednesday morning that late Tuesday night, the district was made aware of a potential threat an elementary student made to another student on social media platform Tik Tok Live. Local law ...

FAIRMONT— The Fairmont Area Schools $21.7 million building bond referendum was unsuccessful on Tuesday with unofficial results coming in with 1,247 no votes and just 648 yes votes. At its heart, the referendum was for acquisition and betterment of school sites and facilities including an ...

GRANADA— The Granada-Huntley-East Chain School building bond referendum passed on Tuesday with unofficial results showing 253, or 57 percent of the voters in favor and 188, or 43 percent opposed. The total referendum was $8.745 million, but more than half of that cost will be covered by the ...

FAIRMONT— On Tuesday the Martin County Board of Commissioners considered a proposal for architect and engineering services for a building facility assessment of the Security Building/ Law Enforcement Center (LEC). The County Building Committee had previously met to review an ...

BLUE EARTH— The 20th annual Southern Minnesota Women of Worth (WoW) Expo will be held at the Blue Earth Area High School from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8. Admission to the event is free. This year’s featured speaker will be Gaye Lindfors, a Christian author and public speaker from ...

SHERBURN — The Sherburn City Council met on Monday evening and discussed snow blowing for this winter around Highway 4 downtown and the elementary school building on 5th Street. The state removes the snow since the highway is their road but does it when they can schedule it and this year plan ...