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 ...
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 ...
MARSHALL — The Marshall City Council will be considering whether to authorize funding of street reconstructions and other projects, starting with a couple of public hearings on Feb. 10. One of the upcoming hearings will focus on the city’s street reconstruction plan and the issuance of street reconstruction bonds. The second hearing will be about the approval of abatement and the issuance of abatement bonds. The bonds and abatement would fund projects including street work on North High Street and South Fifth Street, and improvements at Legion Field and athletic fields along ...
MARSHALL — A former Tracy business owner will be serving jail time and paying restitution after pleading guilty to theft by swindle charges last year. Darin Lee Horner appeared in Lyon County District Court on Tuesday for a sentencing hearing. In August, Horner pleaded guilty to two counts of theft by swindle. Horner admitted that when he was the operator of Affordable Appliance Plus in Tracy, he took money from customers without ordering or delivering the appliances they purchased. Court documents said customers’ money was used for other purposes, including deposits to Horner’s ...
ST. PETER — Supporters of the Social Security Expansion Act gathered Tuesday to explain how the proposed legislation would strengthen the nation’s Social Security system, increase benefits for recipients, and ensure long-term solvency for future generations. “This is a unifying ...
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 ...
