BROWN COUNTY — While warm, record-setting dry fall weather continues, some farmers say things aren’t as bad as they thought they would be. Thursday’s U.S. Drought Monitor update listed most of south central and southwest Minnesota in moderate drought. It’s dusty too. The Minnesota ...
FRANKLIN — AES Clean Energy, an American power generation company that develops, owns and operates solar, wind and energy storage facilities around the world, proposes a $245 million north of Franklin. A small number of people commented on the 125-megawatt, 768-acre project at a Minnesota ...
SLEEPY EYE — Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities (CGMC) lobbyist Marty Seifert had some favorable legislative news for the Sleepy Eye City Council Tuesday. “With the City of Sleepy Eye owning it’s own ambulance, the EMS Aid Bill really helped your community in particular,” Seifert said. “We started at $120 million and got down to $24 million but they (legislators) took out the entire metro area out of it, at our suggestion. Your $111,000 check should be cut at the end of the year,” he said. “Some smaller towns have talked of folding up EMS services. It’s a life and ...
GIBBON — The Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop (GFW) School Board discussed the superintendent job posting at a work session Monday. The board unanimously approved an 11-month interim superintendent contract in July with Dr. Kelly Smith after superintendent Dr. Jeff Horton resigned for a position in the metro area. Smith formerly worked at Winthrop Public School and GFW as a math teacher, athletic director and business manager. Smith recommended the board use the South Central Services Cooperative (SCCS) to search for a new superintendent. “The best thing about it is, we would only have to ...
NEW ULM – In 1952, Jerome Zitzman’s father—Albert Zitzman-- came home carrying a large rock that he found while working in the field. The rock weighed over 50 pounds and appeared to have a skull-like face carved into it. Albert Zitzman thought the stone looked unusual and wanted to show ...
COURTLAND — Nine residents of Courtland were present at the City Council meeting on Thursday to show their concern to the mayor and council regarding a possible development on Riverview/Mary Lane. Resident Samantha Janni of Mary Lane began by expressing the residents’ concerns about the possible development across the road from their property. Janni said, “We are not opposed to the development and growth of Courtland, but we are just concerned that the water mitigation includes the extra water run-off for when homes are built. As a community, we should be involved as we are ...
