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Minnesota’s regular waterfowl hunting season opens a half-hour before sunrise on Saturday, Sept. 27. Spring waterfowl counts were generally higher than last year, with the full report from the spring waterfowl survey available on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources waterfowl management webpage (mndnr.gov/waterfowl). In the report, total breeding duck abundance (excluding [...]

The Martin County Historical Society will be holding their annual meeting on Thursday, September 25 at the Best Western in Fairmont. Guest speaker for the evening will be Blake Davis, a 1985 graduate of Fairmont High School. Davis has had an extensive career in the corrections industry, including time as [...]

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is proposing to increase the daily limit for yellow bass in the Fairmont chain of lakes (Amber, Hall, Budd, Sisseton and George) in Martin County, as well as in Lake Imogene in Martin County and Clear Lake in Jackson County. The proposed special regulation [...]

Ruby’s Pantry will have a food distribution in East Chain, Minnesota on Saturday, August 23rd from 10:00A.M.-11:00A.M. at the East Chain Evangelical Free Church, at 507 280th Avenue in rural East Chain. This will be conducted in a drive through procedure and you will not have to get out of [...]

At their regular meeting on Tuesday, the Fairmont Area School board unanimously approved a resolution to present district voters with a single-question building bond referendum this fall. On Tuesday, November 4, residents will decide whether to invest $21.7 million for critical facility and educational improvements at both schools by casting [...]

A 70-year-old female is dead and a 38-year-old male is in custody following a shooting early Wednesday morning in Windom. According to the Windom Police Department, officers were dispatched to the 1400 block of 12th Avenue at 5:19 a.m. on the report of a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located a [...]