SLAYTON — The Murray County Central School District’s special election for an operating levy increase, to revoke and replace its current referendum, was approved on Tuesday with unofficial results showing a 52% passing rate. Preliminary results show 548 votes in favor, with 510 votes ...

MARSHALL — Lincoln Pipestone Rural Water is trying to develop a new water source that could help residents in northern Lyon County. The water provider is also turning to area counties for help with the financing of new wells, water pipelines and a water treatment plant, said LPRW General ...

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 ...

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 ...

MARSHALL — A state program will be looking for sources of gravel and sand in Lyon and Murray county 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 in ...

Harold Mellenthin’s connections to rural Lyon County go back a long way. He was born on the family farm west of Marshall in 1925, and he’s lived most of his 100 years in the area. “It’s my life, and it was an interesting life,” Mellenthin said last week. On Saturday, a crowd of ...