Fairfax News

Earlier this week, the Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop School Board unanimously approved a custodial management, custodial building and grounds maintenance services and health, safety and risk management services bid from Dashir Management Services, Inc.

New fan favorites will take to the dirt track of the Jackson Speedway Saturday night, and they'll bring with them active cheering squads.

Minnesota is the place this summer for biofuel promotions! The state that boats the most E85 fueling locations will offer E85 at a discounted rate at a handful of sites within the next couple of months.

Elaine Ruth Nelson, age 89, of Northfield, died Sunday, June 14, 2009, in Northfield, surrounded by the love of her family, friends and caregivers.

Voters in the McLeod West , Gibbon Fairfax Winthrop , Buffalo Lake Hector and Glencoe Silver Lake school districts will decide the fate of the McLeod West district consolidation issue today.

May 4, 2009 3:27 pm US/Central BROWNTON, Minn. Click to enlarge The district's finances are so poor it cannot survive another year -- it will be $2.5 million in the red at the end of the year, which is over two-thirds of its annual budget.

As the McLeod west school district dissolves, enrollment in neighboring Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop is expected to rise....As News 12's Max Jensen explains, that could mean the GFW district could adopt all-day kindergarten.

The closing of Gibbon Grocery in 2007 marked the first time the 800-population Sibley County town had ever been without a food market.