Ceylon News

Two former nursing instructors turned authors were on hand Saturday at the Good News Bookstore in Fairmont.

Veterans in Martin and Faribault counties are making an all-out push this holiday season to help some of their less fortunate brethren.

Two months ago, Chris and Eric Griffin of Ceylon lost everything they owned in a house fire.

Nassen-Detert American Legion Auxiliary Unit 529 wants to send Christmas greetings to Ceylon area service men and women and others.

While unhappy about the price tag, Martin County commissioners are pursuing an upgrade of public safety communications to the statewide 800 MHZ standard.

Officials from throughout the region, on both sides of the Minnesota-Iowa border, responded en masse Friday night when a Fairmont, Minn., man was reported missing after his canoe tipped over on Iowa Lake.

The Minnesota Opera launched its 2009-2010 season last week with a gleaming production of Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers," led by a quartet of first-rate singers and lush orchestral playing conducted by Leonardo Vordoni.

Isabel Bayrakdarian as Leila, a Brahmin priestess, the ensemble and Jonathan Kimple as Nourabad, high priest of Brahma in the MN Opera's production of "The Pearl Fishers." Lesser-known opera "The Pearl Fishers" gets an injection of color in production designed by Zandra Rhodes.

Services for Edwin H. Schultze, 84, of Fairmont will be 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, at St.

Services for Herbert G. Koehler, 78, of Fairmont, Minn., will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Fairmont.

Services for Herbert G. Koehler, 78, of Fairmont, Minn., will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, August 11, 2009, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Fairmont.

The public is welcome to look BUT PLEASE DON'T TOUCH any of the cars on display at either the cruise-ins or the car show Saturday.

The public is welcome to look BUT PLEASE DON'T TOUCH any of the cars on display at either the cruise-ins or the car show Saturday.

THE TOWN OF CEYLON AMBULANCE CREW IS NOW A FIRST RESPONDERS GROUP. THAT MEANS THAT ANY AMBULANCE CALLS IN THE MARTIN COUNTY TOWN WILL HAVE TO BE ANSWERED BY SHERBURN AMBULANCE OF GOLD CROSS OUT OF FAIRMONT.

A loss of workers and missed calls have led the Ceylon Ambulance crew to hang up its keys.

Donald "Don" Wills, 78, of Nicollet, died Sunday, July 12, 2009, in Rapidan. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2009, at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Mankato, with Pastor Paul Nolting officiating.

Graveside services for Velma Dahlke, of Minneapolis, Minn., formerly of Ceylon, Minn., will be 2 p.m. Monday, July 6, 2009, at the Lake Belt Cemetery in Ceylon.

A crowd of dudes and dudettes turned out this weekend for the first Dude Roll-in, Ride and Rally.

Last year, Martin County gained responsibility for a long-forgotten pioneer cemetery south of Wilbert.

The Fairmont Area Foundation awarded more than $30,000 in grants to 11 local organizations Friday at Fairmont's first summer Fridays in the Park.