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 …
The Cass County Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is looking for 16 new members to join this summer. Minnesota Business Finance Corporation has offered to help the EDC by matching any new membership investments received this summer.
At approximately 6:46 a.m. on July 2, 2013, the Cass County Sheriff's Office received a report of a robbery at a residence in the Sugar Point area, near Federal Dam. Officers arrived on scene and learned that there had been a home invasion and an assault at the residence.
WALKER - Cass County Board approved a final version of the five-year capital improvement plan Tuesday following a public hearing. It calls for making major energy savings and operating improvement changes to the county's highway department garages throughout the county rather than to build new garages. The plan anticipates doing …
WALKER - Cass County commissioners approved reorganizing plans for two county departments Tuesday. Control systems for monitoring the Cass County Jail in Walker will be added to the sheriff's office dispatch center. This will enable either a dispatcher or a jailer to manage the jail from a control center.
PILLAGER - Anyone wanting to run for county commissioner after Jan. 1, 2014, will have to disclose more about their personal finances and assets than in the past. These rules formerly applied only to those running for state offices or metro area positions. Legislative action this year extends the disclosure …
Sheriff Tom Burch reports that the Cass County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant on Tuesday, July 16 in the City of Pine River, pursuant to an ongoing investigation of animal cruelty. 102 dogs and 29 puppies were seized.
Farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers have until August 1 to nominate eligible candidates to serve on local Farm Service Agency county committees, announced Trisha McMonagle, County Executive Director of the Crow Wing-Cass USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA).
BACKUS - Cass County plans to try to fit the 2014 budget into the same levy dollar property tax amount the county has levied annually since 2009. That has been $20,046,613. This likely will mean the county can have no contingency fund going into 2014 to cover unexpected emergencies during …
The Cass Soil and Water Conservation District (Cass SWCD) is currently soliciting names of individuals desiring to be appointed to serve on the Cass SWCD Board of Supervisors. Due to the untimely death of David Harder, Supervisor from District 4 of Cass County, a current vacancy on the SWCD Board …
WALKER - Cass County commissioners voted to support two township positions on issues that came before the board Aug. 6. Shingobee Township July 10 endorsed a tax-increment financing (TIF) district for Reed's Sporting Goods to develop a distribution center in the Walker Industrial Park.
PINE RIVER - Cass County Board approved one improvement Tuesday night in a regular meeting held in Barclay Township and tabled until 2014 another for the county's recycling and garbage transfer station, located north of Pine River.
PINE RIVER - Cass County Commissioners will tour the Sappi Mill at Cloquet Sept. 10 to learn more about how timber the county sells is processed for markets.
WALKER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to send a letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) opposing Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe's petition to place in trust for the band property known as Antler's Ridge abutting Leech Lake.
WALKER - Cass County Assessor's Office reported Tuesday second quarter foreclosures continued a downward this year trend to only 20, compared with 26 in 2012 and down from 51 in 2010. The majority or 15 were seasonal residential properties, compared with only three homesteads and two commercial. All but three …
