Cottonwood News

In honor of Brian Mickelsen and the City of Cottonwood's celebration of Cities and Towns' Week, the dedication and unveiling of the new signs for Brian Mickelsen Parkway was held on Monday at the corner of Mingus and Paula Street.

It was a scenic route for a detour but if the weather holds, commuters will be back on the regular route.

Now that the Marshall City Council has weighed in on possible options for a new Marshall library building, the Lyon County Board decided to follow suit.

There'll be a full weekend for visitors to Coming Home Days in Cottonwood this year, community members say.

Authorities say a boat caught fire on School Grove Lake and one of the four people on board drowned, but the other three swam to safety.

A 29-year-old Cottonwood woman has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for a November crash that killed a 17-year-old Marshall girl.

An attorney for Olga Franco, the Guatemalan national convicted of killing four children and injuring many more in a school bus collision, filed a brief Tuesday with the Minnesota Court of Appeals as part of an appeal of her conviction.

She was in this country illegally, using a stolen identity to get work. But 24-year-old Olga Franco claims she's being honest when she says she was not the driver of a minivan that ran a stop sign and smashed into a school bus last year in Cottonwood, Minnesota.

A sex offender updated information in an incident reported at 7:49 a.m. Thursday, Marshall Police said.