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Program to benefit care settings, students A new program allows high schoolers in grades 11 and 12 the opportunity to receive credit from logging hours working at a long-term care setting. This is a great learning opportunity for our students which no doubt also helps local long-term care settings as well as it provides them with staff for the time being and allows them the chance to teach students about different long-term employment opportunities. Thank you to our state legislators for passing this program. County to request audit of cemetery association This week the Martin ...

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Aquatic Park great for the community To the Editor: Thank you to our Fairmont Aquatic Park. I enjoyed every aquacise and deep-water class. All the staff is helpful, polite and hardworking. It is great to have so many people attend all the classes and enjoy our great aquatic park. I brought many of my family and friends again this year. Everyone had fun and commented how this is an awesome asset to our community. Keep up the good work Fairmont Aquatic Park. I'm looking forward to next year. Respectively, Tamara Plumhoff Fairmont

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Thumbs Up County EDA prioritizes housing Martin County EDA has identified housing as a top priority for the county and is encouraging communities to undergo housing studies in order to figure out what type of housing they need. It would be a good investment of communities to go through with these studies because as was pointed out, first time home owners and senior citizens have different needs when it comes to housing. Thumbs Sideways Council debates merits of ice This week the Fairmont City Council approved officially putting $1.5 million of budgeted funds toward a new ice ...

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Citizens 4 A Strong Fairmont To the Editor: At the city council meeting on Monday, Aug. 14, Councilor Britney Kawecki from Ward 2, asked Citizens 4 A Strong Fairmont how we are involved in the City and what we are doing to support it. We welcomed the opportunity to describe ourselves more thoroughly in this letter. We are taxpaying citizens. Nearly half of the property taxes each of us pays goes to the City of Fairmont to fund the fire and police departments, the water treatment plant, the street department, storm water management and all the other city functions. Let’s not ...

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City Band season successful To the Editor: Fairmont City Band has just finished a successful 2023 season and that would not be possible without the assistance of many groups and individuals. We'd like to thank the City of Fairmont and the Parks Department for their financial support and help with the band shell and Sylvania Park, the Fairmont Area Schools Music Department for the use of their music and equipment, the Interlaken Heritage Days Committee for providing the concession stand, those individuals that worked behind the scenes to set-up before and put equipment away after the ...

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Thumbs Up Event seeks to form connections This week a Hispanic Voices in Martin County panel and fiesta took place at the Knights of Columbus in Fairmont. The debut event was well-attended by members of the broader community. Thanks to the many people and organizations that played a hand in planning the event. We hope to see more events like this take place in the future. Thumbs Up Council reviews admin. candidates The Fairmont City Council heard about three potential city administrator candidates at a special meeting this week. It sounds like there are some promising candidates ...