Windom Police Department responded to a burglary in the 800 Block of Prospect Avenue that had just occurred on September 28th at 4:53am. The reporting party stated that the suspect had been in her kid’s room. The suspect took a TV from her daughter’s room, an Xbox from the living room along with a Child Support Card, and from the garage and her car Cash, Change, 2-Dewalt Drills, Dewalt Snips and Cigarettes. This matter is under investigation. Then at 8:19pm an officer responded to a theft in the 1300 block of 7th Avenue. The reporting party stated she had a set of DeWalt tools, set of Craftsman tools, DeWalt Battery and a vehicle code scanner-Snap On, along with other miscellaneous drills, batteries etc stolen from one of the vehicles in her yard. The code scanner is valued around $5,000. The Reporting Party stated they fix houses. Total loss is estimated at $7,299. This matter is under investigation.
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Yesterday the City of Windom presented a one million dollar check to Premium Iowa Pork Owner Gary Lynch and President, Dan Paquin. One of the conditions of this investment was to add 70 new full-time jobs in which they reached that milestone ahead of schedule. When asked how Paquin had a couple reasons for their success
Partnership is extremely important according to Paquin and there were two key points of the early successes that PIP is seeing.
Paquin stated that hiring and retaining good employees is a challenge, but they have had seen success and are already growing.
Congratulations to Premium for hitting milestones and receiving this investment of dollars to build a better operating facility, we look forward to seeing your impact on the community of Windom as time goes on.
Windom Kicks Off Manufacturing Month Oct 2025 Press Release
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A Lamberton man is facing charges after a deadly crash in rural Sanborn.
19-year-old Ethan Wilhite has been charged with two counts of second-degree manslaughter and accused of culpable negligence creating unreasonable risk. The charges stem from a June 9th, 2024 crash at County Road 11 and 450th Avenue, where Wilhite failed to stop and collided with an SUV driven by Dennis Falk. Falk and his wife Susan were both killed in the accident. If convicted, Wilhite could face up to 10 years in prison a $20,000 fine on each count or both.
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As I am looking at what today is, I am seeing it is Mean Girls Day, National Body Language Day, and World Smile Day! WOWZERS!!! I suppose I am smiling right now because a smile wipes away all negativity! Soooo who cares if the Mean Girl patrol is out and about, turn on that positive and jolly body language and SMILE!!! IT’s a TOTAL WIN for the day!!!