Fairmont City Council met this Past Monday
On Monday evening, Fairmont City Council and city staff discussed revisions to a city contract with the Kraus-Anderson construction company. On March 17, 2022, the city contracted with Kraus-Anderson for work on the community center, ice arena and refrigeration project at the Martin County Arena. Fairmont Public Works Director, Matthew [...]
Sibley County authorities respond to vehicle crashing into a house
(KEYC) According to a release from the Sibley Co. Sheriff’s Office, at around 8:22 a.m., the Sibley County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call of a vehicle striking a house in the City of Winthrop. Joshua Ryan Fritz, 38, of Winthrop, was allegedly driving his 2001 red Ford [...]
Parents of Perry Shooter say they had ‘no inkling’ of his plan
(AP) The parents of the 17-year-old who killed a sixth grader and wounded seven others in a shooting at his small-town Iowa high school last week said in a statement Monday that they “had no inkling he intended the horrible violence he was about to inflict.” Dylan Butler’s parents said [...]
Fairmont woman injured, house damaged in accident
A Fairmont woman was injured and several properties were damaged in a one-vehicle incident on the afternoon of December 26th. 65 year-old Jerene Ann Zwaschka of Fairmont was taken by EMS to Mayo Clinic Health System Fairmont for treatment of possible injuries after the car she was driving struck several [...]
MDA Announces Additional Farmland Succession Support
St. Paul, MN: Farmers and agricultural landowners looking for assistance in creating succession plans for their properties have a new support available through the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA). The MDA has hired Jim Molenaar as its farmland access and succession teams coordinator. In this newly created role, Molenaar will [...]
Fairmont Area Schools Auction Off Hunt Farm Land
An auction for farm land which has been owned by the Fairmont Area School District since being donated to the district by the Hunt Family in 1990 was held Thursday morning. A 38 acre tract of land north of Interstate 90 sold for $525,228, or $13,800 per acre. A 78 [...]
