WALKER - Cass County Health, Human and Veterans Services (HHVS) Director informed the county board and board personnel committee Tuesday that state agencies have informed him there likely will not be an impact from the federal government shutdown on these programs.
WALKER - Cass County commissioners voted Tuesday to move ahead with developing an agreement under which the county would build an addition for county use to the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) garage at Remer.
WALKER - Paul Fairbanks, solid waste director, obtained county board approval Tuesday to seek bids from the county's 23 garbage haulers to service the county's recycling collection sites.
WALKER - Cass County commissioners Tuesday set a variety of 2014 rates, including the levy, which will remain $20,046,613, the same as the last six years. Administrator Robert Yochum informed the board Cass and all but three of eight neighboring counties will levy the same or lower amounts in 2014 …
WALKER - Commissioners Jeff Peterson and Neal Gaalswyk will meet with Cass County Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) officials before the county board further considers changes to the county's office lease to HRA.
BRAINERD -The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has penalized Cass County and Tri-City Paving for stormwater violations resulting from a culvert replacement project on County Highway 17, about four miles west of Pequot Lakes, Minn.
WALKER - Emergency Services Director Kerry Swenson reported to Cass County commissioners Tuesday upgrades on the Pillager communications tower have significantly improved emergency communications in southern Cass. There are significant signal improvements than there were previously, he said.
WALKER - Jared Olson obtained county board approval Tuesday, Dec. 3, to clean trash and improve sanitation at the mid-winter Eelpout Festival he sponsors each winter on Leech Lake in Walker.
WALKER - Five county commissioners and seven county employees convened Cass County's annual budget hearing for the public at 6 p.m. Tuesday, but no members of the public braved the freezing rain and ice slicked roads to attend.
WALKER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to pay Family Safety Network $5,000 per calendar year for the next three years to assist victims of domestic violence in the county. Family Safety Network is a nonprofit organization which focuses on preventing domestic violence through education and assists law enforcement and …
WALKER - Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson obtained county board approval Tuesday to set the minimum salary for elected officials at Step 1 on the county pay scale, preliminary to the 2014 elections.
WALKER - Cass County commissioners opened their first 2014 meeting by electing Bob Kangas chair and Neal Gaalswyk vice chair. They reviewed four applications from legal firms wanting to succeed contract attorney Tom Fitzpatrick as the county's legal counsel for labor negotiation and legal labor issues.
Cass County Sheriff Tom Burch reports that on 9-14-2013 at approximately 01:56 AM the Cass County Sheriff's Office received a report of a motor vehicle accident with injuries on County Rd 71 in Hiram Twp, on the west side of Ten Mile Lake
WALKER - Cass County will conduct a public hearing before the planning commission at 11 a.m. Feb. 10 at the land department building in Backus on proposed changes to the county's individual sewer system regulations.
