Fairmont Robotics Team Wins Lake Superior Regional
DULUTH - The Fairmont High School Robotics Team, known as MegaHertz 2847, won the Lake Superior Regional competition, held in Duluth over the weekend. The Fairmont team allied with Tonkabots of Mound-Westonka High School and Ferradermis of Whitewater High School in Wisconsin to form the winning Blue Alliance Team. [...]
Woman Shot In Truman
Press Release from the Martin County Sheriff Thursday at approximately 6:14 pm, the Martin County Sheriff's Office responded to a domestic assault in the city of Truman, where an adult female had been shot in the chest with a pistol. The woman was transported to a local hospital. A [...]
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, [...]
