Fairmont High School Speech Team Wins Again
Mankato East Invitational Team sweepstakes results 1 Fairmont 106 2 Marshall 85 3 Mankato East 65 3 Loyola 65 5 Mankato West 57 6 St. Clair 33 7 Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton (JWP) 30 8 Waconia 29 Grace Simpson, 1st Place in Dramatic Interpretation Grace Simpson and Oliver Thedens, 4th Place in Duo [...]
Winter Crops Day To Be Held
University of Minnesota Extension Winter Crops Day and Small Grains Program will be Thursday, February 20, at the 4-H Building, 3048 Broadway Ave., in Slayton. Check-in will begin at 8:30 a.m., with the program running from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Whether you farm or work with farmers, this program is [...]
Blue Earth County Bridge Demolished
MANKATO, Minn. (AP) — Contractors on Wednesday blew up the remnants of a damaged southern Minnesota bridge that almost collapsed last summer after a bout of heavy rain that prompted a federal emergency declaration for the area near Mankato. Explosives were used to destroy the beams of County Road 9 Bridge, Blue Earth [...]
Semi Accident Injures One
Early Monday morning, approximately 4:54 a.m., local agencies responded to a one-vehicle accident on Interstate 90 in Martin County. A 2020 Western Star Semi driven by 52 year-old Scott Joseph Spaulding of Wautoma, Wisconsin, was travelling westbound near mile marker 108 in Pleasant Prairie township. The vehicle left the road, [...]
Area Native Killed In Vermont Border Shooting
(AP) - Coventry, VT A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, his family said. Agent David Christopher Maland, 44, was killed Monday [...]
Green Plains Fairmont Plant Suddenly Closes
The Green Plains Energy plant in Fairmont closed abruptly on Thursday, January 16th. The plant, which according to the Green Plains website had 59 employees, had been in operation since 2014. The plant, which originally opened in 2008, was purchased from BioFuel Energy along with a plant in Wood River, [...]
