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Ceylon City Council makes appointments

CEYLON — The Ceylon City Council met on Tuesday evening and designated the following: Acting Mayor- Lon Oelke; Fire Association- Terry Muller; Streets, Parks and Utilities-Wayne Walter; Cemetery- Tiffany Marlin; Ordinances- Judith Perkins; Clerk/Treasurer- Mary Muller; official depository- ...

BEA Board OKs Language Access Plan

BLUE EARTH— The Blue Earth Area School Board started off their meeting on Monday by electing School Board officers, before tackling a full agenda of other items. The board selected Sara Hauskins as the board chair, Ted Armon as vice chair, Stacey Beyer as the clerk and Lindsay Mensing as the ...

Flohrs, Rathman named Martin Luther AAA Students

NORTHROP – Seniors Elliot Flohrs and Ava Rathman have been chosen as the Triple A award recipients by Martin Luther High School for their athletic, artistic and academic pursuits. Flohrs said he played baseball and basketball growing up, and as such, he translated it into his junior and ...

School board OKs $602K bid for roof work

FAIRMONT— With three bids received for the upcoming roofing project across both school buildings, the Fairmont School Board approved a $602,570 bid from Schwickert’s Tecta America in Mankato at their meeting on Tuesday. This beat out a $615,500 bid from Granite City Roofing out of Sauk ...

FEDA reviews second LHTF application

FAIRMONT— On Monday the Fairmont Economic Development Authority (FEDA) approved its second Local Housing Trust Fund application, but not without some discussion first. FEDA is the loan committee for the newly established Local Housing Trust Fund. The application it discussed on Monday was ...

Ruby’s Pantry distribution on Jan. 19

SHERBURN — The Welcome Legion will have the Cribbage Tournament beginning with registration at 1:15 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 17. All area cribbage players are welcome to join the afternoon of fun. The Sherburn Theatre will be on a one month hiatus. No movies will be shown. Watch for news in ...