USDA authorizes emergency haying and grazing use of CRP acres The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) has authorized emergency haying and grazing use of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres for Lyon, Murray, Yellow Medicine, Cottonwood, Jackson and Nobles counties in this area. The ...
LYND — Lynd Public School teachers didn’t get the answer they would have liked Monday evening at the regular school board meeting. With the new school year looming, Lynd school teachers are still working under an expired contract. Amy Korman, board chairwoman, said salary negotiations ...
GRANITE FALLS — Yellow Medicine County 4-H participation is up 1,200 percent in Connecting with Peers, YMC 4-H coordinator Alicia Webb told the YMC County Board Tuesday. Of course the actual numbers were smaller. In that category, participation had leaped from one person attending summer ...
MARSHALL — With four candidates in one local race, Lyon County voter turnout was high in Tuesday’s primary election. And by the end of the night, voters had narrowed the pool of candidates for Lyon County Sheriff from four down to two. With all 33 of Lyon County voting precincts in ...
MARSHALL — A 24-year-old female was cited for driving after suspension in an incident reported at 3:33 a.m. Tuesday on the 200 block of West Lyon Street, Marshall Police said. MARSHALL — A 45-year-old male was arrested for domestic assault in an incident reported at 11:03 p.m. Monday ...
REVERE — Imagine making the sacrifice to offer your own kidney so that a relative could live. Marshall mail carrier Tara Hartson, who commutes from her home in Revere, is donating her kidney to her husband’s aunt, Mary Allen, of Revere. To help Hartson out, friends and relatives got ...
MARSHALL — Receiving an award for service in a statewide advocacy group was an honor, David Sturrock said. But the important part of his work with the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities has really been about speaking up for southwestern Minnesota communities, he said. “I find it ...
IVANHOE — Vanessa Schubert knows how to make some delicious Golabki (stuffed cabbage rolls). “When I cook them, I like to make them in the oven. I like to put in vegetables and bacon. They taste incredible. It’s a way different flavor versus cooking on the stove,” Schubert said while ...
MARSHALL — When it comes to growing hops, Steve Linstrom said he’s in an interesting position. “It’s too big for a hobby, and too small for a business,” Linstrom said of the eight varieties of hops he cultivates on giant trellises at his home south of Marshall. But while growing ...
MARSHALL — A 46-year-old female was cited for no proof of insurance at 2:10 p.m. Sunday on the 1200 block of East College Drive, Marshall Police said. MARSHALL — A 21-year-old female was cited for no proof of insurance in an incident reported at 11:21 p.m. Sunday on the intersection of ...
MARSHALL — Although there are a lot of good things that can be said about Ray and Nancy Pederson’s approach to life, a simple way to sum it all up is just three words long. Speakers at the Lyon County fairgrounds on Saturday afternoon kept coming back to “the three Fs.” “We ...
A Lincoln County commissioner is facing misdemeanor charges in Lincoln County District Court for allegedly slowing down a funeral procession. Richard Joseph Hamer, 59, of Hendricks, pleaded not guilty to charges of disrupting a funeral possession on Aug. 2, court records said. The alleged ...
MARSHALL — On Sunday, DFL gubernatorial candidate Tim Walz and Congressman Collin Peterson flew in by small plane to the Southwest Minnesota Regional Marshall/Ryan Field as a last hop before the primary election Tuesday. The two congressmen, who collectively represent 25 percent of the ...
IVANHOE — Two meetings, two requests and two denials was Sheriff Chad Meester’s reward for a six-month long search for an additional full-time deputy to relieve the overtime hours his staff has been experiencing. The first applicant was from the metro area, Meester said, and had ...
GARVIN — Lyon County soybean farmer Craig Bangasser will make his debut at 9 p.m. tonight on the Discovery Channel’s “Diesel Brothers” show. “It started out as a small project and grew,” Bangasser said Sunday evening. “I was on the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Board ...
Kontz qualifies to attend president’s conference Jim Kontz, LUTCF, MDRT, a local financial professional with The Prudential Insurance Company of America’s Twin Cities, qualified to attend the company’s President’s Conference held recently in Kohala Coast, Hawaii. The conference, ...
MARSHALL — A domestic assault reported at 9 p.m. Friday on the 100 block of Marvin Schwan Memorial Drive is under investigation, Marshall Police said. MARSHALL — Malicious punishment of a child reported at 8:41 p.m. Friday on the 100 block of South Fifth Street is under investigation, ...
MARSHALL — Polling places around Lyon County are set to open Tuesday morning for primary elections. In the case of one Marshall precinct, however, voters will need to use a different entrance to avoid construction on Saratoga Street. Polls for the city of Marshall’s three voting wards ...
A two-vehicle crash injured three people in Marshall on Friday afternoon, the Marshall Police said. The crash was reported at the intersection of Southview Drive and South Second Street. Three people were transported from the crash scene, Police said, but the extent of their injuries wasn’t ...
The Pipestone National Monument will host a viewing of the spectacular Perseid meteor shower from 9-11 p.m Saturday and Sunday. The event is free and open to the general public. The Perseid meteor shower is expected to produce 60 to 70 meteors per hour on these dates. Pipestone National ...