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Thursday evening, June 15th, at 8 p.m., emergency personnel were dispatched to a call of a motorcycle accident on Lair Road in Fairmont. The accident report from the Fairmont Police Department states that a motorcycle headed east on Lair Road lost control, left the roadway, and hit a driveway approach [...]

(JACKSON, MN) — Federated Rural Electric, Jackson, recently presented a donation totaling $7,500 to four local fire departments — Okabena, Sherburn, Round Lake and Dunnell-Lake Fremont. Federated took advantage of matching funds from two organizations to triple the impact. “Federated donated $2,500, then secured matching funds from CoBank’s Sharing Success [...]

At around 8:50 Monday morning, the Fairmont Fire Department was summoned to a report of a fire at the Martin County Library at 2nd Street and North Park St. in Fairmont. The fire was contained to the back of the building in the garage area. The library building had been [...]

Fairmont City Council has their regular meeting on Monday, June 12 at 5:30 p.m. On the agenda is the annual Aquatic Park report and a discussion of community center financing.   The Fairmont Area School Board will meet in regular session on Tuesday, June 13 at 5:00 p.m. This will [...]

WINDOM, Minn. (AP) — An Iowa pork producer says it it will not keep more than 1,000 employees at a bankrupt Minnesota plant if a judge approves its winning bid to purchase the business. Premium Iowa Pork, based in Hospers, Iowa, bid $13 million to buy the slaughterhouse in Windom, [...]

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) — Surrounded by dozens of cheering people in green clothes, Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed a bill Tuesday to legalize recreational marijuana for people over the age of 21 starting in August, making Minnesota the 23rd state to legalize the substance for adults. “This has been a [...]