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Building skills for agriculture

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MARSHALL — Agriculture is an industry with connections to a lot of different career paths and skills. And at the Ag Bowl Scholarship Invitational, Minnesota high school students were demonstrating those skills at the campus of Southwest Minnesota State University. “You’d never be doing ...

Torkelson will not seek re-election

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HANSKA — After nine terms in the Minnesota Legislature, Republican District 15B Rep. Paul Torkelson of Hanska announced Friday that he will not seek re-election to the Minnesota House of Representatives in November. He will finish his current term that concludes in early January 2027, when a ...

Crime and Accidents for Jan. 30

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MARSHALL — A Milroy woman, 18, was arrested for theft, and a report was sent to the county attorney’s office for consideration of theft charges against a Balaton girl, 17, in an incident at 9:44 p.m. Wednesday on the 1200 block of East Main Street, Marshall Police said. MARSHALL — A ...

Crime and accidents for Jan. 31

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TRACY — A family matter was reported at 7:32 a.m. Friday on the 300 block of Seventh Street, Tracy Police said. No further information was available. MARSHALL — The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office assisted Marshall Police with a search warrant in an incident at 9:52 p.m. Thursday on the ...

Coop expands in Echo

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ECHO — It was a project that took a little more than a year of construction work to complete. But a new dry fertilizer plant near Echo will be more efficient for area farmers, said Meadowland Farmers Coop agronomy manager Ralph Price. “There was a need in our area for a bigger ...