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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]