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County creates HR, payroll positions

With two 3-2 votes the Swift County Board of Commissioners will move forward with creating a full-time human resource

CNH donates $25,000 to BHS

In celebrating the 175 years of producing agricultural equipment for the nation and world this year, Case IH is makin

Secretary of State Simon stops by Benson program

Safe at Home offers a secure space

Bill to compensate Benson for loss of Benson Power, LLC; Dayton vetoes

By Reed Anfinson
Publisher
Swift County Monitor-News

Gail & Steve Svor selected as band festival marshals

Steve and Gail Svor have been selected as this year’s grand marshals for the Pioneerland Band Festival set for Wednes

County to invest $92,000 more in GIS

While Swift County personnel and departments have become active users of the Geographic Information System (GIS) pict

Hospital seeks county in-kind help with assisted living project

As Swift County-Benson Health Services tries to reduce the cost of building an assisted living/memory care facility o

Benson commits $10,000 annually toward daycare

Benson’s City Council agreed Monday night to commit up to $10,000 annually to support the daycare center for infants

Monday’s snow may have broken a record

Benson tied its all-time May snowfall record when at least 2.1 inches fell early Monday morning.

NSP agrees to pay city nearly $23 million in compensation for losing power plant

By Reed Anfinson
Publisher
Swift County Monitor-News

Hospital receives $500,000 RSF grant

In what should become the first of many significant grants awarded in the community in the coming years by the Robert

County preparing for move to Lewis Drug

Swift County offices based in the courthouse will be moving to the Lewis Drug building on Atlantic Avenue downtown Be

County hurting for STS workers

Through the years Swift County Environmental Services has used people serving time in the county’s Law Enforcement Ce

Benson Power could be closing by summer of 2018

By Reed Anfinson
Publisher
Swift County Monitor-News

They’re back . . . BHS choir students return from 6-day trip to New York City

Pictured are members of the Benson High School choir, who took part in last week’s six-day choir trip to New York Cit

Benson’s assessed value increases by nearly $1.5 million

Each April the City of Benson’s Board of Equalization (the city council) conducts a public hearing at which property

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