BLUE EARTH— Fiscal Services coordinator Alan Wilhelmi presented the Fiscal Year 2025 Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) 75 Other Postemployment Benefits (OPEB) valuation for approval at the Blue Earth Area School Board meeting on Monday. “The GASB requires a valuation from the ...

SHERBURN — The St. John's Ladies group, LWML, will meet at 2 p.m. today. All members are encouraged to attend. St. John's Lutheran Church will have a service at 6 p.m. today, followed by a meal. Their partner church, St. Paul's Lutheran in Wilbert, will have a 6:30 p.m. service followed by a ...

FAIRMONT — The final buzzer of the basketball season has sounded for the area schools, and the 2025 All-Sentinel Boys Basketball Team selections have now been made. Jackson Madsen of the Granada-Huntley-East Chain/Truman/Martin Luther Jaguars had 387 points, 223 rebounds, 29 assists, 31 ...

FAIRMONT—It’s been over six months since the proposed Fairmont Area Community Center (FACC) project has been talked about publicly during a city meeting. However, members of the FACC Foundation want to assure the council and the community that it’s still in pursuit of the project and the ...

FAIRMONT— A sapling from the original Horse Chestnut tree outside of the house where Anne Frank hid during the Holocaust is coming to Fairmont. The tree has been gifted to local 11-year-old Natalie Flaherty from the Anne Frank Center. Flaherty’s mother, Becky Flohrs, explained that there ...

FAIRMONT— The Fairmont City Council on Monday heard from Community Development Director, Pat Oman, regarding a federal appropriation request for the Fairmont Fire Hall. A feasibility study for the project was done in 2023. Oman said that the Division Director committee got together to ...