3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (742+ words) MARSHALL -- If Lyon County makes cuts in funding for the Marshall-Lyon County Library, the impact could be felt not just in Marshall, but at library locations in Cottonwood and Balaton, Library Director Michele Leininger said this week. "Unfortunately this time,…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (861+ words) After 20 consecutive years shaking sweaty hands and waving to babies at the Minnesota State Fair, Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her baby blue cottage-style booth is as much a fixture here as greasy cheese curds and costumed llamas. One of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (688+ words) MARSHALL -- Talks about Lyon County's 2027 levy continued at this week's Lyon County Board meeting. Over about an hour of discussion, county commissioners narrowed down proposals to try and lower the levy increase. With a number of changes, the preliminary levy…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (644+ words) MARSHALL -- For the longest time, Southwest Minnesota State University Associate Professor of Science Dr. Kris Cleveland has shared her experiences involving mission trips to Guatemala with SMSU women's Assistant Basketball Coach Hanna Geistfeld. Then one day, Geistfeld sent an email…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (937+ words) MARSHALL -- Republican candidates for the Minnesota state Legislature said they've spent the summer trying to hear from as many area residents as possible. "I've been either campaigning or meeting with city officials in, so far, 34 of the 50 cities in the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (617+ words) FAIRMONT - U.S. Amy Klobuchar paid a visit to a farm in Martin County on Tuesday and addressed the many headwinds farmers are now facing. The candidate for Minnesota governor met with sixth-generation farmer Haley Ammann-Ekstrom, who is also a children’s book…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (548+ words) "This is a recreation of that first truck that we had when I started. That was probably, I don't know, 1972, 73, something like that," Warnke said. "I've just kind of always had this in the back of my mind, you know....

3+ week, 1+ hour ago   (483+ words) MARSHALL -- Marshall's Sounds of Summer brought together Democratic political candidates and state officials like Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over the weekend. On Saturday, Ellison and Zack Filipovich, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for Minnesota State Auditor, were among the candidates who…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (540+ words) Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth said Tuesday that if elected governor in November, she will tackle Minnesota's fraud crisis by banning transfers of public dollars to foreign countries, recouping more public dollars lost to fraud and firing all current agency…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (527+ words) MARSHALL -- Lyon County's 2027 levy was a topic of discussion again at this week's commissioner meeting. On Tuesday, commissioners went over possible ways to help reduce the preliminary levy, and other possible funding sources for some county costs. In the end,…...