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Fairmont Christian School reaches independence

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 ...

Strike Out Cancer on April 14

TRUMAN — As we celebrate Holy Week these are the following churches schedules: *Church of Christ will have a 7 pm Thursday service with communion. Easter Sunday they will have a 7 am sunrise service with breakfast to follow. There is also a worship service at 10:30 am. *St Johns Lutheran Church willow creek and St Paul’s Ev. Lutheran Church will have their Maundy Thursday Service & Holy Communion at the Willow Creek at 6:30 pm. A Good Friday service is at St. Paul’s at 6:30 pm. An Easter Vigil service is at St Paul’s at 6:30pm on Saturday. The Easter service with Holy ...

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MegaHertz completes Iowa Regional Robotics Competition FAIRMONT/CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The Fairmont High School (FHS) Robotics Team, The MegaHertz, competed at the Iowa Regional Robotics Competition on March 27 and March 28, at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The competition included high school robotics teams from seven different states. The MegaHertz won all eight of its qualification matches, improving their performance from match to match as the competition progressed and twice posting competition-high scores along with their alliance partners. The team ...

Ruby’s Pantry closes, including Martin County location

EAST CHAIN – Ruby’s Pantry, which operated 87 locations across the upper Midwest, announced early this week that it would be closing effective immediately. This includes the location in East Chain, which was featured in Tuesday’s edition of the Sentinel. The article by Vanessa Schultze stated East Chain was attended by 100-300 people each month, and the location was preparing for an increase in attendees after Ruby’s Pantry in Sherburn closed in February. The East Chain location had already planned its next distribution for April 25 and had announced an increase in price per ...

Courts

MARTIN COUNTY DISTRICT COURT Bobbi J. Connell, 51, of Mankato, was convicted of disorderly conduct-offensive/abusive/boisterous/noisy/obscene; fined $260, sentenced to jail 30 days, stay 30 days for one year, unsupervised probation one year, no same or similar, no violations of an active civil/criminal no contact order, comply with all existing protection orders. Received an additional charge of domestic abuse-violate order for protection-misdemeanor; dismissed. Patrick M. Creech, 42, of Fairmont, was convicted of theft-take/use/transfer movable prop-no consent; fined $241.32, ...

Police

FAIRMONT Tuesday, March 31 3:42 a.m. — A disturbance/disorderly conduct/nuisance was reported in the 100 block of Cedar Street. The civil issue was resolved. 2:40 p.m. — Police investigated a fraud/counterfeiting complaint in the 100 block of Hall Street. 3:19 p.m. — A driving complaint was reported in the 700 block of North State Street. 4:15 p.m. — A civil complaint was reported in the 100 block of South Park Street. 6:05 p.m. — A disturbance/disorderly conduct/nuisance was reported in the 700 block of East 2nd Street. 8:07 p.m. — A suspicious circumstance was ...