MARSHALL Nearly 500 students had the opportunity to transform their imaginations into actual stories during the 27th annual Conference for Young Writers presented by Southwest West Central Service Cooperative on Wednesday on the Southwest Minnesota State University campus. While several of ...
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 ...
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 ...
