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Martin County Humane Society will be holding their annual Walk For Animals fundraiser this Sunday, September 12 at Cedar Creek Park in Fairmont. The walk will be from 2 to 3 p.m. with two different lengths to walk offered. You are welcome to walk with or without your dog. After [...]

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has issued a disaster proclamation for Kossuth, Emmet, Lyon, and Palo Alto counties as the result of recent severe weather. It allows state resources to be utilized to respond to and recover from recent storms and activates the Iowa Individual Assistance Grant Program for qualifying residents, [...]

Fairmont, Minnesota – The city of Fairmont’s official population is 10,487, according to the 2020 decennial census conducted by the United States Census Bureau. The census is taken every ten years and provides vital statistics data for communities and their economies. It was estimated in 2019 that Fairmont’s population would [...]

FAIRMONT, Minn. — The Rosen Family, Krahmer Family and Mayo Clinic Health System in Fairmont have partnered to pledge $4.5 million in initial private funding to kick off the capital campaign for the construction and operation of the proposed Fairmont Area Community Center. The donations will be directed to a [...]

Friday evening a one vehicle accident on Highway 4 in Fox Lake Township in Martin County sent a Trimont woman to the hospital. According to the report from the Minnesota State Patrol, 58 year-old Audrey Kay Yeske of Trimont was injured when the 2019 Freightliner Semi she was driving southbound [...]

News release from Fairmont Area Schools: Fairmont Area Schools would like to provide clarification regarding information that was shared in an area media story last evening. The media outlet (Mankato TV station) stated: "Fairmont and Owatonna Public Schools have ruled masks will be optional." At this time, Fairmont Area Schools [...]