MARSHALL — Performing under the spotlight in one capacity or another has always been Blake Schmitz’s career aspirations, but it changed from competing in stadium lights to singing under stage lights. Schmitz, a local farmer from Currie, is making his way through the music industry as a ...

GIBBON — The ground may be dry as a bone now, but the Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop (GFW) School Board learned that heavy summer rain and project state permit delays are challenging a fall 2025 completion of a new $70 million pre-K-12 school. “We lost 39 working days, about two months of time, ...

GIBBON — The Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop (GFW) School Board will consider a $57.3k fire pump-related change order request to the school building project from Kraus-Anderson (KA) Construction Co. on Monday. According to a Sept. 23 letter to GFW Supt. Dr. Kelly Smith from KA Project Manager Brian ...

ST. PAUL – The Minnesota 4-H State Horse show Sept. 13-16 featured six Brown County 4-H members. Youth from across the state participated in the annual event at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds to demonstrate their skills and knowledge in hippology, horse judging, horse training and ...

SLEEPY EYE — Sleepy Eye Public School Superintendent John Cselovszki told the school board Wednesday that interest surveys for a proposed city-school recreation/fine arts facility will be mailed to Dist. 84 residents and landowners next week. In March, Cselovszki presented an architectural ...

Superintendent Robin Courrier presented Nicollet Public School’s MCA test results from the Spring of 2024. The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA) are the state tests in reading, mathematics, and science that are used to meet federal and state legislative requirements. The percentage ...