WALKER - Cass County Administrator Robert Yochum has asked those planning to tour the former Ah-Gwah-Ching site with the county board to notify his office ahead of time that they plan to attend.
BACKUS - County Engineer David Enblom obtained county board approval Tuesday to shift some funding to enable repaving more county state aid highways, to increase new highway equipment funding and to consider replacing the Remer garage.
BACKUS - Cass County Commissioners granted two exceptions Tuesday to the board's policy of requiring county land use permits in all jurisdictions in the county.
BACKUS - Conservation easements allow owners to keep their land, use it or sell it and local governments to keep collecting taxes on it, but the easements prevent residential, commercial or industrial development.
BACKUS - Cass County will increase the county emergency management position from half to full time and assign the additional work hours to be spent implementing the upgraded ARMER emergency communications system.
BACKUS - The Longville Ambulance Service will be among medical service providers to lose funding if Congress fails to postpone this year the pending Medicare-provided payment cuts.
BACKUS - Cheryal Lee Hills, Region Five Development Commission director, updated Cass County commissioners Tuesday on the progress she has made toward paying off debt the region incurred several years ago and progress toward coordinating member counties' services.
Homeowners should contact your county assessor to file a homestead application on or before December 15, 2010, if one of the following applies: • You purchased a property in the past year and you, or a qualifying relative, occupy the property for homestead purposes on December 1, 2010; or • …
WALKER - Commissioner Jim Dowson, Walker, will chair the Cass County Board in 2011. Commissioner Jeff Peterson, Hackensack, will be vice chair. Before the board's first meeting this year on Tuesday, Judge David Harrington swore into office re-elected incumbents Dowson, Commissioner Bob Kangas, Recorder Katie Norby and County Attorney Christopher …
WALKER - Cass County commissioners awarded contracts Tuesday for four energy improvements for Deep Portage Conservation Reserve. A fifth contract was awarded in December.
WALKER -Cass County Health, Human & Veterans Services offers limited free radon test kits to area homeowners. Testing is the only way to know if your home contains dangerous levels of cancer-causing gas.
WALKER - With the mid-February Eelpout Festival fishing contest on Leech Lake fast approaching, Cass County commissioners again this year wrestled Tuesday with the question of whether the county's Lawful Assembly Ordinance applies to that event.
WALKER - Cass County Board Tuesday adopted the summer schedule for regular meetings to be held throughout the county.Each will begin at 6 p.m. on a third Tuesday of the month.
WALKER - Cass County commissioners passed a resolution Tuesday to express to the state Legislature their support for existing state laws that require the state to pay counties to offset counties' loss of property tax revenue from tax exempt lands. Some state legislators have talked of cutting or eliminating state …
