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31 Dec 2025
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In 2025, the Fairmont area saw some large building projects come to fruition, but it also saw some long-planned projects fail. Other big stories in 2025 included new businesses opening, administration challenges and discussion centered on the Fairmont Chain of Lakes. What follows are the Sentinel’s top 10 news stories of 2025.
No. 1– Work ends on FACC community center
After making the top 10 in past years as stories of advancement came about, the proposed Fairmont Area Community Center is making the list this year for a different reason as the Fairmont Area Community Center Foundation (FACC) announced in November that it would end its work on a YMCA-operated Community Center in Fairmont.
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