BACKUS - The Cass County Board approved another cooperative venture with Crow Wing County Tuesday, authorizing Land Commissioner Joshua Stevenson to advertise demolition of abandoned buildings on tax-forfeited land jointly for both counties.
BACKUS - More Cass County homesteaded properties but fewer cabins went into foreclosure the third quarter this year than in 2009. Cass County Assessor Mark Peterson reported Tuesday to the county board that 35 properties went into foreclosure the third quarter this year, compared with 33 last year.
WALKER - Judge John P. Smith has ruled in Cass County District Court that the county and the city of East Gull Lake, under the Minnesota recreational use immunity statute, are not liable for the injuries a bicyclist suffered while riding on a trail in East Gull Lake.
BACKUS - Minnesota Department of Transportation appeared to be pessimistic in a response to Cass County and Leech Lake Tribal Council's request to include Pine River to Walker in the four-lane upgrade for Highway 371 from Nisswa to Pine River
WALKER - Educating the public and metro area legislators will be key to preserving water quality in north-central Minnesota, five area legislators told those assembled for a fourth annual meeting Friday at Northern Lights Event Center near Walker.
The Cass County Sheriff Department is beginning another year of partnership with Crime Stoppers of Minnesota to increase the ways that citizens can anonymously pass on information to help solve crimes.
WALKER - Cass County has settled a lawsuit over a street improvement project in Whipholt for $17,500, according to Administrator Robert Yochum. Eric and Constance Netter had filed suit against the county, the road improvement contractor Reierson Construction and the landscape contractor NAR Landscape Services.
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.
