WALKER-Cass County commissioners selected Heidi Tumberg to succeed Melanie Wolfe as director of business management at Health, Human and Veterans Services, effective July 5. Tumberg currently is finance director for the city of Excelsior. She has a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Minnesota State University Moorhead.
WALKER-Cass County's total assessed value has trended upward in the last year, but only by 0.53 percent, Assessor Mark Peterson informed the county board Tuesday.
PINE RIVER-Zoning permit activity is nearly flat so far this year compared with 2015, Environmental Services Director John Ringle informed the county board Tuesday.
PINE RIVER-Cass County Engineer David Enblom obtained county board approval Tuesday to begin right-of-way acquisition for the repaving project planned for County State Aid Highway 77 through Lake Shore in 2017.
PINE RIVER-Cass County Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson updated the county board Tuesday on some of the changes being made to the county capital improvement plan.
WALKER-Cass County commissioners Tuesday set a public hearing to review changes proposed for the county's land use ordinance at the 6 p.m. regular meeting June 21 at the Shingobee Town Hall, 7941 Townhall Road N, Walker.
WALKER-Lower oil prices this year means Cass County's major state aid road paving package will run $1 million less than it would have cost last year. County Engineer David Enblom told the county board bituminous mix for asphalt roads cost $60 per ton last year. Bids the county awarded Tuesday …
WALKER-There was little public comment on changes to Cass County's land use ordinance, but the county board raised several questions it failed to resolve Tuesday while holding its regular meeting at Shingobee Town Hall.
WALKER-Cass County Board named Commissioners Dick Downham and Scott Bruns to meet with neighbors in the unorganized township area of the county who would be affected by a proposed cartway to a landlocked land parcel.
HACKENSACK-Newly appointed key Cass County personnel made their first presentations at the county's annual planning meeting last week, while some soon-to-retire department heads made their last.
CASS LAKE-In the 1990s, the state demographer predicted Cass County would have about a 20 percent population growth annually by now. The estimated population increase that office actually saw from 2010 to 2015 was only one-half of 1 percent or 151 people.
Voters may apply now for absentee ballots for the upcoming August 9, 2016 statewide primary election on-line, in-person, by mail, or by submitting a completed application via fax or email.
CASS LAKE-County Engineer David Enblom obtained Cass County Board approval Tuesday to use money from the township bridge fund to help Wabedo Township replace a bridge over the Boy River at the north end of Little Boy Lake.
BACKUS-Cass County Board Tuesday approved changes to the county land use ordinance to permit people to add guest quarters or a guest cabin up to 700 square feet on their property as long as they can meet setback, sewer size and other requirements.
