GRANITE FALLS — A new era has officially begun for the Yellow Medicine East School District. School staff, faculty, students, community members and partners gathered on Tuesday to mark the start of the campus's complete makeover in a groundbreaking ceremony. “Today is the day we've all ...
MARSHALL — Developers are still trying to get an affordable housing project built in Marshall. But this week, Tim Trimble of Tapestry Companies, said Tapestry would be scaling back its proposal in an effort to get help with financing the project. “Our plan originally was to build a 60-unit project. We’re now going back and scaling that down to a 42-unit,” Trimble said. A smaller project would need less funding, and might be more likely to get support from the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, he told commissioners. Trimble, the executive vice president of Tapestry, spoke to ...
MARSHALL — The Marshall area’s affiliate of Habitat for Humanity has new leadership, after merging with an affiliate serving west central Minnesota. On Tuesday, Lyon County Commissioners learned more about the merger from Kayla Klein, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota and Habitat for Humanity of Redwood River. “We were approached by the Marshall affiliate . . . to potentially look at acquiring them,” Klein said. Klein said Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota operates out of Willmar, but staff travel to Marshall at least once a ...
MARSHALL — The filing period for Minnesota state, federal and some local elections closed Tuesday. According to filing information posted on the Minnesota Secretary of State’s website, there will be some crowded primary elections for races in Minnesota state government and the U.S. Senate. In Lyon County government, officials like the sheriff and two commissioners will be running unopposed, according to the filing data. Minnesota will hold primary elections on Aug. 11. The candidate filing period for positions that don’t have a primary, including township, city and school board ...
MARSHALL — A child was injured in an accident involving an electric scooter Wednesday morning at the intersection of East Lyon Street and Adobe Road, Marshall Police said. The accident was reported around 10 a.m. A 13-year-old child riding an e-scooter received a head injury falling off ...
MARSHALL — Responders including the Minnesota State Patrol, Marshall Police, Lyon County Sheriff’s Office and Marshall Fire Department were at the scene of a crash Wednesday morning at the intersection of East Main Street and Minnesota Highway 23. The crash was reported around 10:20 a.m. ...
