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April 11, 2022

FAIRMONT — On Friday, April, 8, Fairmont competed at the MSHSL Section 2A Speech Tournament at JWP High School in Janesville, Minn. The Section 2A teams competing were Fairmont, Maple River, River Valley, Madelia, Blue Earth Area, Alden-Conger, Lake Crystal-Wellcome-Memorial, Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton, LeSueur-Henderson, Mankato Loyola, Minnesota New Country School, Minnesota Valley Lutheran, St. Clair, Tri City United, Waseca, and Waterville-Elysian-Morristown. Fairmont was the MSHSL Section 2A Team Champion with 142 points. St. Clair was in 2nd place with 66 points, and Minnesota ...

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April 9, 2022

FAIRMONT — American Legion National Commander Paul E. Dillard is coming to Fairmont and Blue Earth and will speak on issues of importance to Minnesota veterans. Among the topics Dillard plans to address are suicide prevention efforts in Minnesota, growing membership at the post level and The American Legion’s partnership with Chip Gnassi Racing. He will visit Blue Earth American Legion Post 89 for a lunch and presentation noon Wednesday, April 13, at 115 W. Sixth St., and talk with veterans, community leaders and citizens. He will also visit Fairmont American Legion Post 36 from ...

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April 9, 2022

FAIRMONT — The Center for Specialty Care in Fairmont recently welcomed Julie Dodds, MD to their practice. She is a board-certified, fellowship trained orthopedic surgeon with expertise in Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine. Originally from a farm in northern Iowa, she attended high school in Algona, Iowa. After her undergraduate training at Iowa State University in zoology, she attended the University of Iowa Medical School. Her residency in orthopedic surgery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was followed by an arthroscopy and sports medicine fellowship back at the University of ...

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March 31, 2022

Jackson EDA to host Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho JACKSON — The Jackson Economic Development Authority will host Minnesota Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho the morning of Friday, April 1. Joining the Commissioner will be State Senators Julie Rosen and Bill Weber and State Representative Bjorn Olson. The visit will start at 10 a.m. at Jackson City Hall and will include a bus tour of areas of industrial and commercial growth in Jackson, newer housing developments and locations designated for future workforce housing project. The group will then return to city hall around 11 a.m. ...

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March 31, 2022

Fairmont Speech wins 2A subsection FAIRMONT — On Monday, March 28, Fairmont hosted the MSHSL Subsection 2A South Speech Tournament. The Subsection 2A South teams competing were Fairmont, Maple River, River Valley, Madelia, Martin County West, Blue Earth Area, Alden-Conger, and Lake Crystal-Wellcome-Memorial. Fairmont qualified 26 individuals to the Section 2A Speech Tournament, which will be held Friday, April 8, at Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton. The Subsection 2A South Champions from Fairmont were senior Vanessa Schultze in creative, junior Solveig Senf in discussion, freshman ...

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March 30, 2022

Fairmont Speech victorious at home FAIRMONT — On Saturday, March 26, the Fairmont Speech Team competed at The “Fairmont Finale” Speech Tournament hosted by Fairmont High School. In the varsity division, Fairmont had 15 finalists. Junior Lauren Wheeler took 5th place in creative expression; Senior Vanessa Schultze took 7th place in creative expression and 6th place in prose reading; Junior Solveig Senf was the champion in discussion; Senior Kara Fischer was the champion in dramatic interpretation; Senior Kara Fischer and Sophomore Selvin Forstythe took 3rd place in duo ...