Jackson News

JACKSON, Minn. - An Iowa woman died Monday from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash in southwest Minnesota over Memorial Day weekend.

Do you ever wonder if professional musicians are really happy? They claim to love their time on the stage but most of the other hours tend to be a series of bus rides, generic dressing rooms, interviews with journalists and lots of sitting around doing nothing.

This column helps congregations and individuals plan for the church year's upcoming celebrations, seasons or commemorations.

The Jackson Bulls and Lakefield Horned Frogs made it to the top of the fifth inning in their game Wednesday night before lightning forced the game to be called off with Jackson ahead 3-1. Because the game didn't make it through five innings, the teams will start over at 7 p.m. Friday in Lakefield.

Ziegler Ag Equipment in Jackson has a familiar face as its newest local territory sales manager.

Jackson County Central's baseball field will be the site of a baseball/softball clinic Sunday put on by the Minnesota Twins.

Employees at State Farm Insurance in Jackson knew when the old Jackson County Human Services building across from them on Sherman Street started to crumble beneath the excavator, there was something that needed to be saved from the wreckage: a large golden orb that once topped the flagpole next to the front steps.

Tentative approval of a $1.8 million grant for a new Interstate 90 interchange at Highway 34 in Jackson was announced Friday by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.

Jackson County Central swept both ends of a double dual golf meet with Blue Earth Area on Thursday in Jackson.

Theater to close for four days as digital upgrade gets under way Jackson's Historic State Theatre will be closed Monday, May 21, through the day Thursday, May 24, while it undergoes a complete digital upgrade.

Jackson resident Phil Kirk recently arrived home to find an unpleasant surprise.

Jackson bank gives $5K to new fire hall and ambulance facility The Jackson Federal Savings and Loan Association Board of Directors and employees presented $5,000 to the Jackson Fire Department and Ambulance Service Tuesday morning for use in purchasing furnishings for the new fire hall and ambulance facility.

AGCO RECEIVES GOVERNMENT LOAN TO EXPAND ITS MINNESOTA PLANT May 10, 2012 Agri-Pulse reports: Officials with Federated Rural Electric, of Jackson, Minn., and USDA Rural Development on Monday presented AGCO with a $740,000 no-interest loan for up to 10 years.

A weaned pig specialist for New Fashion Pork of Jackson has received special recognition from Pfizer Animal Health.

JACKSON, Minn., May 8, 2012 - Since 1990, Federated Rural Electric of Jackson has offered more than $3.6 million in low- or no-interest loans to help businesses in its territory become established or expand.

Jackson- and Fairmont-based Minnesota National Guard soldiers who spent the past year in Kuwait returned home Sunday to the cheers and applause of 100 people lining Main Street in Jackson and then even more in a full Olson Pavilion at the Jackson County Fairgrounds.

At the urging of Minnesota West Community and Technical College President Richard Shrubb, the Jackson campus is joining its sister locations in striving to become a Tree Campus USA.

Dozens of the 140 Jackson campus of Minnesota West Community and Technical College graduates embarked on a new chapter of their lives after receiving a certificate, diploma or degree Friday night at commencement ceremonies.

Trained spotters reported a tornado just west of Jackson, Minn., at 3:05 p.m. on Friday in Jackson County in southwestern Minnesota.

Jackson-based members of the Minnesota National Guard are scheduled to arrive home Sunday morning, with an approximately 11:30 a.m. homecoming parade start, according to Sgt.