WALKER - Sheriff Tom Burch obtained county board approval Tuesday to spend up to $25,000 to update the county's building security systems. While these updates had been under consideration for some time, the need for swifter action follows a recent shooting incident at Cook County Courthouse.
WALKER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to adopt the 2012 levy and budget as presented at the Dec. 8 Truth in Taxation public hearing. The levy will be $20,046,613, with the assumption that the county will still receive $359,016 in state program aids in 2012. The budget calls for …
WALKER - Bruce London knows what it is like to be a police officer. He spent 30 years in that line of work, retiring from the Brainerd Police Department. When he and his neighbors in Loon Lake Township had a problem with teen parties involving alcohol in their neighborhood this …
WALKER - Cass County Board Tuesday approved an agreement for the land department to lease two drags, a snowmobile and a trailer to Lake Country Nordic Ski Club for five years at no cost to the club. Minnesota DNR will pay the county up to $9,300 from grant-in-aid ski permits …
WALKER - Cass County commissioners appealed to their state legislators Tuesday to make some changes in the 2012 session that ultimately could benefit county government and local citizens. Sen. John Carlson, Rep. Larry Howes and Rep. John Percell attended the county board meeting to discuss the upcoming session.
BACKUS - Cass County Board meet from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 24 at the courthouse in Walker with the citizen budget committee, the planning commission and Cass County Economic Development Corporation representatives. It will be a work session (open to the public) to review the budget, discuss any changes …
BACKUS - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to pay the city of East Gull Lake $173,058.81 to reimburse the city for costs incurred to install a recreational trail system extension in 2011.
BACKUS - Cass County Board adopted a policy Tuesday for county highway road striping and signage. Adopting a policy is a new federal requirement for local governments. Cass's lane striping on paved roads will follow recent practice: to re-stripe every year roads carrying 1,000 vehicles or more per day, every …
WALKER - In less than a minute Tuesday, Cass County commissioners had a motion, second and vote to name Jeff Peterson chairman and Dick Downham vice chairman for 2012. Rep. Larry Howes, observing the county action from the audience, laughed and said, "It took us (state House Republicans) two days …
The Cass County Republicans will hold Precinct Caucuses on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m., in various locations throughout Cass County. Attendees of the Caucuses will participate in the grassroots of the political process, but electing delegates to represent your precinct, and by voting in a presidential straw poll.
WALKER - Cass County Board approved changes to the Pine River Area Sanitary District By-laws Tuesday, setting the county board as final authority to appoint sanitary board members and setting pay for those members. The new provisions call for the local government units to recommend and the county board to …
WALKER - Cass County Board Tuesday changed one April meeting date and set the summer schedule for board meetings throughout the county. The board will move the 9 a.m. regular meeting first meeting of the month at the courthouse in Walker from April 3 to April 4. During the summer, …
WALKER - Jamie Richter, Cass public health director, informed the county board Tuesday the "Take it to the Box" program to collect unneeded medications from the public has been very successful since it started Nov. 1. The county has a collection box at the law enforcement center in Walker and …
WALKER - Ninth Judicial District Judge John P. Smith, assigned to Cass County, reported to the county board Tuesday the success of wellness court since it began here. While the recidivism rate for the average person going through court for driving while intoxicated offenses is 50 percent, Smith said only …
WALKER - Cass County commissioners will start to receive their board meeting packets by email later this month via their new iPads, saving the cost of five piles of paper about an inch thick each for meetings. Kam Koch gave the board a demonstration Feb. 7 on how to operate …
