WALKER - The number of homes selling in Cass County has picked up this year. Through July, there were 309 arms-length real estate sales in the county in 2014 and 381 this year.
WALKER - Cass County Board set a 2016 preliminary levy dollar amount Tuesday at 6.55 percent more than the 2015 budget, but this would cause only a 5.12 increase in the county's tax rate.
WALKER - County Engineer David Enblom reported to the county board he has been working with the city of Walker on a city project to replace sanitary and storm sewer lines under Fourth and Fifth Streets and Michigan Avenue and to repave both in 2016.
WALKER - Cass County Environmental Services Department issued 20 more land use permits for new buildings, additions and private sewer systems the second quarter this year than in 2014, ESD Director John Ringle reported to the county board Tuesday.
WALKER - Minnesota Counties Intergovernmental Trust will pay Cass County a $167,569 dividend this year. Of that $108,382 is based on workers compensation insurance experience and $59,187 is based on property/casualty insurance experience.
EAST GULL LAKE - Kathy Gaalswyk, Initiative Foundation director, and William Palmer, Cass County Economic Development Corporation board chair, updated Cass County commissioners Tuesday on how their agencies have helped economic development here.
EAST GULL LAKE - Kerry Swenson, Cass County emergency services director, reported to the county board Tuesday Cass local government costs from the July 12 straight-line windstorm has now reached $1.6 million.
EAST GULL LAKE - Cass County commissioners took the first steps Tuesday toward purchasing new election voting equipment. The board authorized Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson to seek requests for proposal to for new voting machines.
EAST GULL LAKE - Cass County Board voted to accept the county insurance committee recommendation Tuesday to continue the county's self-insured health insurance plan at no cost increase for 2016 to either employees or the county.
WALKER - Minnesota Department of Health selected a Cass County health services nurse to be one of five in the state recognized as an Everyday Hero for their exceptional service in the Women, Infants and Children program.
WALKER - Three temporary Cass County employees finished locating wells in the county at two-thirds the expected cost, Environmental Services Director John Ringle reported to the county board Tuesday.
WALKER - Vandals appear to have used a chain saw to cut most of the way through the main timbers supporting a Cass County recreational trail bridge snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles use in Beulah Township.
BACKUS - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to authorize Sheriff Tom Burch to negotiate a contract with another county to house 20 more Cass County inmates. Currently, Cass has a contract with Crow Wing County to house 40 inmates at the jail in Brainerd.
BACKUS - Hackensack-Onigum-Walker-Akeley Family Center will wind down operations between now and the end of this year and close all operations in 2016. Tuesday, the county board referred to the budget committee an evaluation of whether the county should continue funding family centers at the same level in 2016, considering …
