Though the 2024 Jackson County Fair is still four months away, planning for it has already hit a fever pitch. The 156th Jackson County Fair runs July 23-27 in Jackson. Jackson County Fair Treasurer Terri Bargfrede said this year’s great Jackson County get-together will feature a mix of the time-honored and traditional, the all-new and exciting and even the reintroduction […]
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ILS gearing up to host Camp Invention
FREEBy Lakefield Standard Staff | on March 27, 2024
Immanuel Lutheran School in Lakefield will once again host Camp Invention, a nationally recognized, nonprofit summer enrichment program. The camp will run June 10-13. A program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, in partnership with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Camp Invention challenges children in kindergarten through sixth graes to tap into their natural curiosity and use their […]
COUNTY FARMLAND VALUES SKYROCKET
Local average per-acre sales price highest in regionBy Justin Lessman | on March 20, 2024
Jackson County has the most valuable farmland in southwestern Minnesota. That’s according to the annual 2023 survey of farmland sales conducted by the University of Minnesota Extension, anyway. The survey collects data on bare farmland sales to nonrelated parties for the first six months of each year. Last year, Jackson County’s average sale price of $12,656 per acre was the […]
Egg hunt kicks off busy year of events, activities
By Justin Lessman | on March 20, 2024
The Lakefield Business Association Easter Egg Hunt on March 27 kicks off a busy year of special events and activities planned in Lakefield in 2024. All are included in the listing of annual events that appears in the 2024 Jackson County Visitor and Information Guide, which hits streets and cyberspace this week. The 20th annual egg hunt will take place […]
School board’s share of pool fix could run upwards of $2.3M
By Justin Lessman | on March 20, 2024
The Jackson County Central School District’s share of a proposed rehabilitation of the indoor swimming pool it jointly owns with the city of Jackson could run upwards of $2.3 million. That’s the word from a task force charged with making recommendations on the future of the pool, which is located on the east end of the JCC high School in […]
Huskies headed to state tournament
FREEBy Dan Condon | on March 14, 2024
The Jackson County Central boys’ basketball team has qualified for the Class AA state tournament for the fourth time in team history after beating Morris-Area/Chokio-Alberta 67-52 in the Section 3AA championship Thursday night. The Huskies also made it to state in 2016, 2017 and 2020, although the state tournament wasn’t played in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Tigers […]
Local voter turnout up over 2020
By Justin Lessman | on March 13, 2024
While it didn’t come close to what’s typically seen in a general election, voter turnout across Jackson County in last week’s presidential nomination primary election was higher than it was last time. The 2020 presidential nomination primary election — the first in Minnesota in nearly three decades and the first binding primary in the state since 1956 — drew a […]
Students unlock the mysteries of science
By Justin Lessman | on March 12, 2024
Those who attended Pleasantview Elementary School’s student science fair last week learned what which brand of battery lasts the longest, which store’s plastic bags are the strongest, what type of liquid is best for dissolving Peeps candies and that a hot football can, in fact, be punted for a longer distance than a cold football. Among other things. Going and […]
Huskies headed to section finals
FREEBy Dan Condon | on March 09, 2024
The Jackson County Central boys’ basketball team is going to the Section 3AA championship game for the fourth time in team history after beating top-seeded Redwood Valley 59-46 Saturday in the sub-section finals at Southwest Minnesota State University. The Huskies – seeded No. 2 in the south half of the section – will play North No. 4 Morris Area-Chokio-Alberta Thursday […]
Local voters choose Biden, Trump
FREEBy Justin Lessman | on March 06, 2024
Jackson County voters fell in line with the rest of the state of Minnesota in Tuesday’s presidential nomination primary election, giving the nod to frontrunners President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump by wide margins. Biden earned nearly 84 percent of the local Democratic-Farmer-Labor vote, with Trump nailing down just more than 80 percent of the local Republican vote. […]