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The American Red Cross has a critical shortage of type O blood and urges eligible donors to give now to help patients facing trauma and other life-threatening situations. As a thank-you for helping replenish the blood supply, all donors who come to give blood now through June 10 will receive a $5 Amazon.com Gift Card via email. Right now, the Red Cross has less than a two-day supply of type O blood available for emergency rooms, where it can be most critical. That means just six units of type O blood are available for every 100,000 people, but at least [...]

The Fairmont Area School Board approved an early release for high school seniors who have assignments completed, fines paid and detention made up. Seniors have been getting out of school several days earlier than the rest of the student body for the past several years. The last day of school for seniors will be May 29. The rest of the students will be in school through May 31. Three people at Fairmont Area were recognized for their 25 years of service to the district at the school board meeting Tuesday. They are: Lois Harbo, Derek Spear and Melinda Stewart. Harbo [...]

The Fairmont City Council on Monday released an attorney’s summary that quashes the recall petition for Councilor at LargeTom Hawkins . Council member Ruth Cyphers suggested reading a letter from an attorney summarizing the attorney-client privileged memorandum in which Robert T. Scott, an attorney with the St. Paul law firm of Flaherty and Hood, analyzed and offered advice on how the city should handle the recall petition for Hawkins. Earlier in the meeting, the council voted unanimously to make the statement public, with copies of the statement to be made available today, but Cyphers pushed for transparency on the issue [...]

Determination of who should seek interim legal services for the city stirred up discussion among the Fairmont City Council Monday. After the council and mayor split evenly over the City Attorney's recent evaluation,with three people very satisfied with her performance and three dissatisfied. Mayor Debbie Foster then announced that the city would negotiate with Elizabeth Bloomquist on a separation agreement. On Monday, after authorizing the mayor and City Clerk to sign the agreement, the council then had to secure interim legal services for the city’s criminal and civil cases. Turning over criminal cases to the Martin County Attorney received [...]

TWO FAIRMONT MEN FACING MULTIPLE FELONY CHARGES IN CONNECTION TO ALLEGED STORAGE LOCKER BREAK-INS. ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS 27 YEAR OLD RYAN JOSEPH JARROD STETLER FACES THREE FELONY COUNTS RELATED TO THAT AND ONE FELONY CHARGE FOR METH POSSESSION IN A PARK ZONE. HE FACES A 3RD DEGREE BURGLARY CHARGE, A FELONY THEFT CHARGE AND FELONY POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY CHARGE. ALL THREE COUNTS EACH CARRY 5 YEARS IN PRISON/$10,000 FINE CHARGES IF CONVICTED. 37 YEAR OLD JERIMIAH JACOB NYE-CONTRERAS FACES THREE FELONY COUNTS FOR 3RD DEGREE BURGLARY,THEFT AND POSSESSION OF STOLEN PROPERTY/ PENALTIES FOR EACH CHARGE ARE 5 [...]

THE FAIRMONT AREA SCHOOL BOARD MEETS AT 5 PM TUESDAY. THE BOARD WILL RECOGNIZE 25 YEAR EMPLOYEES AND TEACHERS GAINING TENURE.EARLY RELEASE FOR SENIOR STUDENTS, A MEDICAL LEAVE, TERMINATION OF A PROBATIONARY CONTRACT, HIRING SUMMER COMPUTER HELP AND ACCEPTANCE OF DONATIONS WILL BE A PART OF TUESDAY'S MEETING AT THE FAIRMONT CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS. Paste In or Write Your Content Here!!!!!!!!!

THE FAIRMONT CITY COUNCIL MEETS MONDAY AT 5:30 PM. THE COUNCIL WILL ACT ON A SEPARATION AND RELEASE AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY AND WILL ACT ON INTERIM LEGAL SERVICES AND CRIMINAL POSECUTIONS AS A RESULT OF THAT SEPARATION. THE SALE OF 2019 IMPROVEMENT BONDS ,AWARD OF THE CONTRACT FOR THE 2019- E IMPROVEMENT PROJECT ,A STATE GRANT AGREEMENT FOR AIRPORT MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS AND ENGINEERING SERVICES CONTRACT FOR LIME POND CLOSURE WILL ALL BE ACTED ON AT MONDAY'S MEETING AT THE FAIRMONT CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS. Paste In or Write Your Content Here!!!!!!!!! [...]