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Most bang for the buck To the Editor: Gyms: Gyms are a great and healthy way to get out of the house year round. Yes, there are weights and machines. There are group activities like yoga and karate too. You never know who you might meet there. Competition: The City says they won’t harm the current gyms. Who will be using the gym equipment the City plans on installing. Subsidized memberships: The City has never offered either gym money to pay for underserved people in the community. Why not? How much could it cost? $10,000 per year? Pool: We had a pool but then after a few ...

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Give to the Max Day To the Editor: Give to the Max Day, which will be on Thursday, Nov. 17th, has become Minnesota’s annual giving holiday. Every year on this day donations are made to Minnesota causes that are working to improve the quality of life in Minnesota. This year over 30 groups in Martin County are participating in Give to the Max Day. Groups range from food shelves to schools and youth groups to preservation groups to the animal shelter. You can make a difference with your donation. Each time you make a gift during Give to the Max, you could help your favorite ...

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Thank you for your support To the Editor: I want to take this time to say thank you to all of you who supported me during my campaign journey for County Recorder either by putting a sign in your yard, offering me campaign advice, volunteering your time, spreading the word, providing encouraging words and foremost I am thankful for those who faithfully voted for me to be your next County Recorder. I am truly blessed. I look forward to serving Martin County as your next County Recorder. Michelle Duncan Fairmont

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Need or want To the Editor: A need is something necessary to live and function. A want is something that can improve your quality of life. Using these criteria, a need includes food, clothing, shelter, and medical care, while wants include everything else. The proposed community center appears to be a want since it is not necessarily needed for a person to function as is food, clothing, and shelter. Fairmont needs to have manufacturing, retail, technology, education, and housing to have jobs for citizens to live and function. Employment would be the first most logical reason for ...

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Fully informed citizenry is only just To the Editor: There was an open house on Nov. 2nd to inform Fairmont citizens on the proposed Fairmont Community Center. I attended the open house to learn more about this project. I expected to be educated on all costs of my investment, but I was very disappointed. I saw the cost to build the facility, a range of $23-46 million. The range depends upon how much is built and when it is built. I was provided no information on the cost to access something I/we built and own (yes, our money), or the cost to maintain the facility and who will own that ...

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Get city council on right track To the Editor: In the 38 years that we have lived in Fairmont, we have never had a political sign in our yard or requested publicly that citizens vote for specific candidates. We feel that this is a very important election for the City of Fairmont and have realized this from past events that occurred this year in our neighborhood. We need the mayor and all council members to work together for the betterment of our City. We don’t expect all council members to agree on every agenda item, but we would hope that all council members would listen carefully ...