WELCOME – After around 30 years of planning projects for companies like Accenture and U.S. Bank, A man from Welcome has his last big project for a major sporting event. Tracy Tish was born and raised in Welcome and graduated from Welcome High School before it became part of Martin County ...
MARTIN COUNTY – With farmers having had various timetables for purchasing fertilizer, the sudden rise of the Iran conflict and closure of the Strait of Hormuz is leaving some in a tough bind. According to the USDA, urea dry nitrogen fertilizer is up to an average of $852 per ton and wet UAN nitrogen is averaging $513 a ton at 28 percent total nitrogen and $575 a ton at 32 percent total nitrogen. That average has jumped by $30, $24 and $5, respectively, just in the last two weeks. Martin County’s Farm Bureau Representative Joe Sullivan, who farms field corn, soybeans, peas and sweet ...
FAIRMONT – With around four years under their belt since reopening, the Fairmont 5 Theatres is branching out with a theater rental program. While technically the program has been around since the theater first opened, multiple factors have prevented it from being fully realized. “We ...
CEYLON — A Kids’ Easter Bingo will be at 2 p.m. today, Saturday, April 4, at the Lake Belt Bar and Grill in Ceylon. Activities include face painting, games and hotdog lunch. Lake Belt Bar and Grill will have a Nutt Fry at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 10. That is the day before Ceylon Community Day. Easter is Sunday, April 5, and area churches have services planned. Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Ceylon has an Easter service at 5:30 p.m. tonight, April 4, with an Easter brunch to follow. The Circle of Faith parishes will have an Easter service at 9 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in ...
FAIRMONT – After multiple years of assistance from Mountain Lake Christian School to help get on its feet and running, Fairmont Christian School is officially independent and established as its own nonprofit. The school has 38 students in kindergarten through sixth grade, having started ...
FAIRMONT – While COVID rates remain low, a new variant called Cicada has made its way into Minnesota. Public Health Sanitarian for Faribault and Martin County Health and Human Services Tim Langer said this discovery was made through wastewater monitoring. “There have been only two cases in the state of Minnesota as of today,” he said. “I confirmed that with the state health department, and those are two clinical cases. As far as locally, we are not tracking COVID right now. It's just been such low cases.” Cicada is a variant of the Omicron strain of COVID. Thankfully, Langer ...
