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Halfway done?

Local News

MARSHALL — Construction crews hope to complete the first half of the Highway 19 reconstruction project sometime this month, a representative of R and G Construction Co. said. “We are telling people, sometime in the middle of November,” Erika Coudron of R and G said Wednesday. The ...

Lyon Co. Board hears report on gravel mapping project

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MARSHALL — A state program will be looking for sources of gravel and sand in Lyon and Murray counties over the next year, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources staff said this week. This week, Lyon County commissioners heard an informational presentation about a mapping project underway ...

Lyon County approves landfill fee increase

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MARSHALL — Fees for waste haulers taking trash to the Lyon County landfill will be going up in 2026, but not as much as county commissioners had anticipated. “At the annual landfill meeting (Monday), the landfill advisory committee recommended that the County Board consider a $2 per ton ...

Musical recording of Holm’s poem released

Local News

MARSHALL — Southwest Minnesota State University professor Dan Rieppel and alum Ryan Ross continue to celebrate their late friend and colleague Bill Holm with the release of a recording of Holm’s poem “Playing Haydn For the Angel of Death” as a baritone voice and piano song cycle. ...

Crime for Nov. 6

News of Record

MARSHALL — A report was sent to Human Services and the county attorney’s office for consideration of charges against two Marshall juveniles who ran away and returned home, in an incident at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday on the 900 block of East Fairview Street, Marshall Police said. MARSHALL ...

Lyon Co. sheriff, Marshall police not notified of DWI testing errors

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MARSHALL — Lyon County and Marshall law enforcement said area DWI investigations were not affected when the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced potential errors in hundreds of breath tests last month. The BCA says forensic lab scientists have now determined the tests were ...