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Building skills for ag

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 ...

Torkelson won’t seek re-election

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 ...

Learning about ‘Schools Long Ago’

Photo by Dwayne Black Students at Park Side Elementary took a look back at what school time was like for kids in the past, during special classroom visits Friday. Lyon County Museum director Jennifer Andries brought in artifacts to show students, like a kitten ball — a kind of softball — ...

WELCOME — The Whole Grain Milling Company, which has turned out a variety of grain-based products since its inception in the ‘90s, has been featured on the Fox Business Network television show “Manufacturing Marvels.” The show airs weeknights from 9:20-9:45, and features the business practices and manufacturing processes of businesses across America. Co-owner Ross Hilgendorf said the milling company started as a way to better distribute what they produced to people. “We’re a farm,” he said. “To try to keep the farm viable, we started the milling company in 1990 to ...

Sharing the ‘Menagerie’

MARSHALL — The artworks Oak Kelsey has on display at the Marshall Area Fine Arts Council gallery use a variety of different techniques, from collage and chalk drawing to painting with stencils. But there are some threads that tie them all together, Kelsey said Thursday. “It’s ...

Marshall approved for accessibility grant

MARSHALL — The city of Marshall was approved for a state grant meant to help make it easier for people with disabilities to vote. The grant of more than $9,000 could help make sidewalk repairs and install accessible doors at the Red Baron Arena and Expo, according to information provided to the Marshall City Council this week. The Red Baron Arena facility is currently used as a polling place for Marshall’s Ward 1. An information item included in the agenda for Tuesday’s Marshall City Council meeting said the city had applied for a 2025 Polling Place Accessibility Grant from ...