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Avera Tyler hospital staff members hold a community testing event on July 15 in reaction to Lincoln County spike in COVID-19 cases after the July Fourth weekend.
MARSHALL —Â A lot can happen in the space of a year — and at times, it seemed like 2020 was really putting that idea to the test.
The Independent’s top stories of the year include national and international events that touched, and in some cases drastically changed, life in southwest Minnesota. At the same time, area communities continued to move forward with school and municipal building projects that had been a long time in the planning.