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(undated) Deer hunters in designated southern Minnesota permit areas will be required to have adult deer tested for Chronic Wasting Disease during this opening weekend of the firearms season. The Minnesota D-N-R says the mandatory testing is part of a rotating C-W-D surveillance program covering 36 deer permit areas across [...]

(Fairmont) Windom Area Health's new Fairmont Clinic celebrated its opening Thursday with a community open house and ribbon cutting, giving residents a chance to tour the facility and meet its medical staff. Located inside the Victoria State Crossing Building, the clinic officially opened in early October and currently offers general [...]

Martin County residents will have a chance to voice their opinions on the proposed PowerOn Midwest 765-kilovolt transmission line during a public hearing next Thursday, November 12th, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Fox Lake Event Center in Sherburn. The proposed line would cross southern Minnesota, including Martin [...]

The Faribault County Board of Commissioners received an update Tuesday from the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation on its investments in local communities. SMIF President and CEO Benya Kraus highlighted grants benefiting area libraries and schools, a business loan to Nutra-Boss Incorporated and a 10-thousand-dollar grant to the city of Elmore [...]

(Fairmont) A Fairmont man has been sentenced in Martin County District Court on a gross misdemeanor DWI conviction stemming from an August incident involving an electric scooter. Forty-one-year-old Brandon John Hemann pleaded guilty in September to second-degree driving while impaired. Court records show he was sentenced November 3rd to 364 [...]

Bruce Borntrager will be the new Mayor of Trimont. He won 57.7% of the vote. Josh Paulson and Jon Holtz were the winners in a six candidate field for city council. They will now work in turning around a city that has seen some turmoil in recent years. Just recently [...]