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Grant to help seniors age in place Several local individuals set out on a mission to hep bring services into the homes of seniors in Martin County. Now with a sizable grant from the Schmeeckle Foundation, the Martin County CHW Project is moving forward. The group is looking for community health workers to train in order to help seniors stay in their homes longer. Thank you to those behind this great project and to the Schmeeckle Foundation for supporting it. Robotics team earns high rank Last weekend the Fairmont robotics team placed fourth out of 53 teams at a competition in ...

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Take a new poll on community center To the Editor: I agree totally with the previous letters to the editor regarding needing another vote before proceeding with the community center. I believe that there should be a new poll taken from the property taxpayers of the City of Fairmont to see if there is still support for the proposed 30 plus million dollar community center. I was told that the actual cost of the proposed community center has now most likely more than doubled from what was originally estimated. I would like to see updated cost estimates along with the estimated property ...

Fuel tax holiday?

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With gasoline prices at the pump rising like a SpaceX celebrity rocket launch, governors and state lawmakers around the country are looking for ways to ease the impact for their citizens. One idea being pushed is to call a holiday on state or even federal gasoline taxes. These are the per-gallon taxes collected at the pump with every gasoline purchase. The money collected usually goes into the state or federal transportation fund to build or maintain roads and bridges. Governors from several states, including Minnesota, are writing to congress members asking them to support a gas tax ...

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Free Kids’ Clothing Swap’ To the Editor: The Christian Church of Fairmont and Bethel Free Evangelical Church are hosting their first ever ‘Kid’s Clothing Swap’ from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on March 26, at the Christian Church located on 625 Johnson St. in Fairmont. We are inviting everyone in the community to come on out on that Saturday to participate in getting some slightly used clothes to get ready for spring and summer. We are encouraging you to go through your kids closets and find any clothes that are no longer season appropriate or are too small for them and bring them to ...

Our gas price pain nothing like Ukraine’s

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Residents and business owners in southern Minnesota are feeling the pain of high gas prices. The prices are set by a number of factors, from who the individual station buys it from, how much they pay, demand and how competitive the local market is. It also depends on supply, and right now the international supply is being disrupted by Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the world’s economic sanctions against Russia. On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced a ban on all Russian oil imports in response to Russia’s stepped-up assaults on civilians and non-military targets. While ...

List shaping up in First District

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There is a week left in the filing period for candidates to run in the special election to replace the Rep. Jim Hagedorn. So far, the list of candidates is leaning far to the right. Four Republicans have filed to run to fill out the rest of Hagedorn’s term. The one DFLer is Richard W. Painter, a University of Minnesota law professor who converted to the Democratic Party a few years ago after serving as the chief White House ethics lawyer in the Bush Administration from 2005 to 2007. He unsuccessfully challenged Sen. Tina Smith in the 2018 DFL U.S. Senate primary. We suppose it is ...