BACKUS - Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson and Commissioners Bob Kangas and Neal Gaalswyk will form a committee to develop a proposal for Cass County Board to consider as a plan to clean County Ditch 9.
BACKUS - Environmental Services Director (ESD) John Ringle reported permits for new construction are down about 50 percent the first three months this year, compared with 2012.
The Cass County Sheriff's Office reports that it is very apparent that most area lakes will not be free of ice for the upcoming 2013 Fishing Opener weekend on May 11, 2013. While this is a unique situation that could lead to angling through the ice rather than from a …
WALKER - Cass County will offer 18 non-conservation land parcels for sale at a 9 a.m. June 29 auction at the courthouse in Walker. One commercial city lot in Pine River will see the appraised price lowered from $8,500 to $6,000. That site has been occupied by a bookstore. Others …
WALKER - Nineteen people applied for the veterans service officer and assistant veterans service officer positions Cass County advertised. The county board Tuesday voted to proceed with interviewing the six applicants who met all the eligibility requirements for veterans service officer, with the intent to select one veterans service officer.
WALKER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to seek state mediation and to hire Tom Fitzpatrick as legal counsel to represent the county in the mediation. This is in response to the health, human and veterans services unit of American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees bargaining unit vote …
WALKER - Cass County Board has set two special meetings. May 17, the board will meet at 10 a.m. at Deep Portage Conservation Reserve, east of Hackensack, to tour solar, wind and other energy saving improvements the reserve has made in the last two years. That tour is expected to …
FEDERAL DAM - Jeri Seegmiller, health services team leader, and Lori Muller, social services team leader, reported Tuesday to Cass County commissioners on the success they've had switching to a joint intake system.
FEDERAL DAM - Largely due to the sale in 2012 of $750,175 worth of county administered non-conservation land, Cass' 2012 income from land and timber sales was higher than in recent years. That revenue will be distributed in 2013 to the county's reforestation and recreational funds and to cities, townships …
WALKER - Cass County Board held a special work session on June 17, to discuss its proposed five-year capital improvement plan. The board updates that plan annually. The county currently has more than $11 million in a capital projects fund, which has been created over several years by dedicating some …
WALKER - Sen. Tom Saxhaug, DFL- Grand Rapids, and Rep. John Persell, DFL-Bemidji discussed with the Cass County Board Tuesday results of the 2013 state legislative session. Dan Larson, lobbyist and director of Rural Minnesota Counties Caucus, also discussed legislative issues as they relate to rural counties.
WALKER - Cass County Board awarded a contract for about 90 percent of the county's state aid road construction work Tuesday to low bidder of five, Tri-City Paving, at $2,882,207.92 or 1.8 percent under engineering estimates.
PILLAGER - Cass County Board took steps Tuesday to move one proposed development project ahead and voted against plans for another. The board set a public hearing for the 9 a.m. Aug. 6 regular county board meeting at the courthouse in Walker to consider a request from Reed's Sporting Goods …
