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The Independent calendar lists upcoming meetings, facility hours and events in and around Marshall. To have your group’s events listed, email the information to news@marshallindependent.com or submit the information to our virtual newsroom. Today Household Hazardous Waste Facility, open 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Public Works Building, Marshall. Call 532-8210 for more info. Marshall Area Fine Arts Council gallery 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 344 West Main Street, Marshall. TOPS# 1373 (take off pounds sensibly), 8-9 a.m., 82 W Main Street Cottonwood. For questions call 507-828-0944. Cribbage, ...

New at the Library

New materials at the Marshall-Lyon County Library FICTION Byrne, James. Storm Warning (Dez Limerick #4) Cohn, Rachel & De La Cruz, Melissa. My Ex-Husband’s Ex-Husband Katzenbach, John. The Architect Ryan, Jennifer. The Queen’s Coronation Stephens, Naomi. Don’t Upstage the Body MYSTERY Gates, Eva. Shot Through the Book (Lighthouse Library #12) NON-FICTION America’s Test Kitchen: The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook [641.50949 AME] Castel, Benoît. The Seasonal Pantry: 75 Homemade Recipes to Waste Less and Enjoy More [641.564 CAS] Cheyenne, Yasmine. The Come Back Era: ...

Regional Calendar

The Independent calendar lists upcoming meetings, facility hours and events in and around Marshall. To have your group’s events listed, email the information to news@marshallindependent.com or submit the information to our virtual newsroom. Today Household Hazardous Waste Facility, open 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Public Works Building, Marshall. Call 532-8210 for more info. Marshall Area Fine Arts Council gallery 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., 344 West Main Street, Marshall. SW MN Arts Council Gallery, 9 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m., 509 West Main Street, Marshall. Marshall-Lyon County Library hours, ...

Minnesota’s clean water certification program helping farmers be good stewards

My family farms just under 1,000 acres near the headwaters of the Minnesota River and the Red River on the continental divide. The view out our window is an expanse of fields and sky that spans for miles. Water that comes to our farm through rain and snow eventually ends up in the Minnesota River, flowing into the Mississippi and finally into the Gulf of Mexico. We think a lot about how our farm management affects that water, and how to be the best stewards of that resource. That’s why we were eager to meet with our local Agriculture Water Quality Certification specialist, and ...

Minnesotans broadly support E15 — now US Senate should act

In my decade of attending Farmfest, I’ve found that conversations often start with the weather, market conditions and the cost of doing business. But they usually come back to a larger question: Are policymakers paying attention to what Greater Minnesota needs? This year one issue deserves to be part of that conversation: year-round E15. For anyone who has seen Unleaded 88 at the gas pump but is not quite sure what it means, E15 is a gasoline blend with 15% ethanol. Most gasoline sold today already contains 10% ethanol. E15 simply increases that blend to 15%, bumps the octane level ...

New Little House series could have benefits for Walnut Grove

For the first time in more than 40 years, people have an opportunity to watch new episodes of Little House on the Prairie. Netflix recently came out with its new Little House series. It premiered in the past month. A second season is already planned, according to the show’s web site. The show is set in Kansas, which corresponds to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s second book. It offers a view of life in an area that was still part of the frontier in the 1870s. It’s hard to imagine that a new show can compare to the original series, which put Walnut Grove on the radar screen of people ...