HHS announces recommendations to prevent the spread of COVID-19

March 21, 2020

Southwest Health & Human Services reminds everyone that in order to stop/slow down the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), we need to continue to follow the recommendations from Minnesota Department of Health and Centers for Disease Prevention and Control by staying home from work/daycare when you are sick. If you are sick, please stay home for at least 72 hours after your fever is gone without taking fever-reducing medication. If you have respiratory disease symptoms (such as fever, coughing, muscle aches, sore throat and headache), you should stay home for at least 7 days ...

Regional Calendar

March 18, 2020

Today Community Transit hours: 5:45 a.m.-9 p.m.; Red Route, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Blue Route, 8:35 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Community Transit hours throughout eight counties: 6:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Household Hazardous Waste Facility open 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., located in the Public Works Building, Marshall. Call 532-8210 for more info. Awareness Network. Divine Providence Auxiliary Thrift Shop hours 10 a.m.-2 p.m., 366 E. George St., Ivanhoe. Habitat Re-store 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., 300 N. U.S. Highway 59, Marshall, 929-0371. One More Time thrift store 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Minneota. Donations ...

MCHS announces lecture about KKK in SW Minnesota Thursday

March 7, 2020

The 2019-2020 Murray County Historical Society Dinehart Lunchbox Lecture Series will feature“ The (not so) Invisible Nation: The KKK in SW Minnesota,” Dr. Anita Talsma Gaul, Minnesota West College, Worthington, at noon Thursday at the 4-H building on the Murray County Fairgrounds unless otherwise noted. Cost is $3 and MCHS members are free. Bring a lunch. MCHS supplies coffee, tea, or cocoa.

Alzheimer’s Disease presentation is Feb. 24 in Marshall

February 17, 2020

Approximately 94,000 Minnesotans live with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia, and a quarter-million people provide unpaid care to these individuals. The value of this care to Minnesota and society is over $3.5 billion dollars per year, which exceeds the annual revenue of some Fortune 500 companies. In a tour across the state of Minnesota, Professor Joseph Gaugler hopes to meet with families and professionals to talk about Alzheimer’s disease, share information and stories, and help us realize we are not alone on the dementia journey. This tour is bringing him to Marshall on ...

Regional Calendar

January 27, 2020

Today Community Transit hours: 5:45 a.m.-9 p.m.; Red Route, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.; Blue Route, 8:35 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Community Transit hours throughout eight counties: 6:30 a.m.-6 p.m. SW MN Arts Council Gallery 8 a.m.-noon and 1-4:30 p.m., 114 N. 3rd St., Marshall. Household Hazardous Waste Facility open 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Public Works Building, Marshall. Call 532-8210 for more info. Avera Gift Store open 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center. Bonebuilders 9 a.m., Adult Community Center, Marshall. Avera Marshall Auxiliary Thrift Store 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., 1000 E. ...

SMSU Farm Outlook & Education Seminar Feb. 12

January 23, 2020

The 36th annual Farm Outlook & Education Seminar will be from 9 a.m.-2:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the Conference Center Ballroom on the campus of Southwest Minnesota State University. The Farm Outlook & Education Seminar is a scholarship fundraiser for students in SMSU’s agriculture programs. Three speakers with broad agriculture backgrounds will highlight the event. They will share their expertise on a number of ag-related topics, including relieving farm stress; growth, cultivation and marketing of industrial hemp; and analysis of current grain and livestock market ...