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 ...

MARSHALL — Spokespeople for a group of electric utilities said a new power line project in southern Minnesota would help supply energy needs in the Midwest. “One (need) is increased electric growth,” said Randy Fordice, of Xcel Energy, during an open-house meeting in Marshall on Monday. ...

HANSKA — The community of Hanska is left stunned and grieving in the wake of a double-murder committed in town early Sunday morning. Brown County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) identified Justin Paul Reinarts, 50, and Tabitha Leigh Trescott, 32, as the two victims killed in a home located at ...