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The Prairie Star Quilt Guild will meet on Monday, October 13, 2025 at the Fairmont Evangelical Covenant Church, 901 Woodland Ave., Fairmont, MN 56031. The Quilt Board will meet at 12:30 pm and the regular meeting will begin at 1:30 pm. The program will be a presentation on the International Quilt Study Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. Show and Share and lunch will follow. For more information, contact PSQG President Kathy Wilkening.   The Martin Luther Jr/Sr High School National Honor Society students are hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive on Monday, October 20 from 12:30-5:30 p.m. To make an appointment call 1-800-Red-Cross [...]

On Friday evening, September 26, at approximately 6:05 pm, Fairmont Police Officers were dispatched to a report of a pedestrian that struck by a motor vehicle in the 600 block of East 4th Street in Fairmont. A 64-year-old female was crossing East 4th Street when she was struck by the motor vehicle traveling westbound on East 4th Street being driven by a 56-year-old female. Lifesaving efforts were attempted, but the 64-year-old female was pronounced deceased at the scene. The driver was taken into custody. Kristin Carol St. John of Fairmont, 56. was booked into custody at the Martin County Jail Friday [...]

Two area men were injured in a two-vehicle accident on State Highway 15 near Lewisville on Tuesday morning. At 10:45 am emergency personnel responded to the report of an accident at the intersection of Highway 15 and 390th Street, on the south edge of Lewisville. A 2003 Jeep Cherokee driven by Jacob William Mohwinkel, 31, of Truman, was northbound on Highway 15 when it collided with a 2007 Peterbilt Semi driven southbound by Armano Magana Mendoza, 41, of Granada. Mohwinkel was taken to Mayo Clinic Health System of Mankato with what the Highway Patrol report termed non-life threatening injuries. Mendoza was [...]

Ruby’s Pantry will have a food distribution in East Chain, Minnesota on Saturday, September 27th from 10:00A.M.-11:00A.M. at the East Chain Evangelical Free Church, located at 507 280th Avenue in rural East Chain. This will be conducted in a drive thru procedure and you will not have to get out of your car. You are also asked to clean out the trunk of your vehicle before you come.   There are no income or residency guidelines. Ruby’s Pantry is funded by the $25 cash donation per participant for operational costs and they receive an abundance of food.   Ruby’s Pantry continues [...]

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 scaup) was estimated at 417,000, which is 8% above the 2024 estimate and 32% below the long-term average going back to 1968. Hunters can find important information about required waterfowl stamps, season dates and hunting regulations in the Minnesota Waterfowl Hunting Regulations booklet, available wherever hunting and fishing licenses are sold, [...]

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 a warden at the Florence, Colorado supermax facility, where some of the most notorious criminals in our nation's history are held, as well as many leadership positions in the private and public sectors across the nation. Social hour begins at 5, with dinner at 6. Cost is $25 per person. Reservations [...]

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 would increase the daily possession limit on yellow bass from 30 to 100. “While yellow bass is a native species in the Mississippi River, it is not native in southern Minnesota lakes but now makes up a significant portion of the fish in the Fairmont chain of lakes,” said Ryan Doorenbos, [...]

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 your car. You are also asked to clean out the trunk of your vehicle before you come.   There are no income or residency guidelines. Ruby’s Pantry is funded by the $25 cash donation per participant for operational costs and they receive an abundance of food.   Ruby’s Pantry continues to [...]

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 their vote. According to Superintendent Andy Traetow, "Over the past year, we have worked through a long-range planning process to further understand, identify, and prioritize our needs, including a facility analysis, an educational adequacy assessment, a utility analysis, a roofing analysis, and gathering feedback from various stakeholders." The proposed plan includes [...]

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 70-year-old female who had suffered gunshot wounds. After Windom Ambulance arrived, the female was transported to Windom Area Health. At 5:28 a.m., officers were advised that a male had broken into a residence in the 1200 block of River Road and was in the bathroom. Officers responded to the scene and [...]