FAIRMONT — Just recently, $165,000 went up in smoke for the Health and Human Services (HHS) offices for Martin and Faribault Counties. These cuts come along with a wave across the Minnesota Department of Health. A press release sent out April 1 includes 170 employee layoffs, reducing support for nursing home projects, suspension of partner-led vaccine clinics and emergency preparedness activities and reduced lab support for hospitals. The communication was sent to HHS at 5 p.m. on March 25. HHS Director Chera Sevcik said they had received the funds during the COVID pandemic, but ...