FAIRMONT— The city of Fairmont’s new planning committee, which would work on an Energy and Environmental Resilience Plan, has been put on hold as the federally funded organization that supplied a grant for it, Region Nine, has received guidance from the Minnesota Department of Commerce to halt the work. Region Nine is Fairmont’s federal economic development district. It had reached out to the city several months ago encouraging it to apply for a grant with the belief that the city could benefit from creating a community resiliency plan which would center on an issue identified by ...