By Independent staff It was a year of tragedy, change and hope for economic development in 2018. No news development shook the region more than the announcement of a South Korean food company purchasing the majority stake in the Schwan’s Company. No company has left a bigger footprint in ...

People don’t necessarily need their own sets of four wheels to lead active lives in Marshall and the surrounding area. All they have to do is climb aboard transit buses operated by United Community Action Partnership. A pick-up and drop-off schedule that involves two different routes allows ...

GRANITE FALLS It’s become something of a holiday tradition in Granite Falls over the past few years. On the Sunday before Christmas, kids can come to meet Santa Claus and see live reindeer at the historic Volstead House on Ninth Avenue. The free event has been popular in past years, and ...

MARSHALL The temperature was only 15 degrees last Friday, but people were still cheery as they celebrated the magic of the holidays at the Prairie Home Hospice and Community Care’s Light Up the Night in Marshall. The location of the second annual event was moved — from the Southwest ...

It took a couple of days to set up. But in some ways, the wintry scene on the upper level of the Lyon County Museum was years in the making. On tables stretching along one wall of the museum space, visitors can see a whole neighborhood in miniature — houses, churches, shops, a train ...

About a dozen people recently took the opportunity to inspect the Russell, Tyler and Ruthton facilities that make up the RTR educational system in an effort to form their own opinions about the direction the district should take regarding facilities planning in the future. A building bond ...