BACKUS-Cass County Probation Director Jim Schneider described for the county board Tuesday Minnesota's effort to minimize the number of juveniles ending up in the state's correctional system.
BACKUS-Land Commissioner Kirk Titus said he expects prices loggers pay the county to cut timber on county owned and managed land will stay higher in 2017. He presented his annual report to the county board Tuesday. Historically, Cass County has sold more aspen tree tracts for cutting than any other …
BACKUS-It costs Cass County about twice as much to get rid of recyclables as it does its garbage, Environmental Services Director John Ringle told the county board Tuesday as he presented the 2016 solid waste annual report.
BACKUS-Lt. Col. Chad Sackett, Camp Ripley deputy garrison commander, gave his annual report Tuesday to Cass County commissioners on activities at Camp Ripley, which covers 53,000 acres from Pillager to just north of Little Falls.
BACKUS-Cass County commissioners authorized a six-person research team to study on county managed land where and in what type of trees bats roost at sites near Hackensack and Remer. Minnesota DNR, University of Minnesota Duluth, the Natural Resource Research Institute and the U.S. Forest Service will conduct the study.
WALKER-More people do business with Cass County electronically today than in the past, but the Auditor-Treasurer office saw an uptick in telephone calls during the election year in 2016. Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson presented her annual report to the county board Tuesday.
WALKER-Cass County will join neighboring counties and Leech Lake Reservation this summer in warning people about high wind events as well as approaching tornadoes.
LONGVILLE-Cass County has planted 2.6 million tree seedlings since 2002. The county board approved planting 126,720 seedlings this year during its regular second meeting of the month, held this month at Longville City Hall. The commissioners will hold the second meeting each month through September at a city or town …
LONGVILLE-Cass County commissioners approved two preliminary steps Tuesday toward realigning access onto Shingobee Island and toward adding the long-closed restaurant back onto the island's community sewer system.
The Cass County Courthouse, Health, Human, & Veteran Services, the Cass County Highway Department, and the Cass County Land Department will be closed on Monday, May 29, 2017, in observance of the Memorial Day Holiday. Please note the following office will be open: The Sheriff's Department.
The Crooked Lake Township Emergency Management Planning Team is seeking property owners who would be available during storms or other emergencies as a point of receiving and providing information for your local neighbors.
WALKER-Traffic Marking Services won the right to paint lane striping on Cass County roads with a bid 30.16 percent below engineering estimates at $481,172.30.
WALKER - Cass County commissioners approved, after getting no response from the public Tuesday, their five-year capital improvement plan. The primary change since the plan was initially proposed calls for the county to provide $4,000 as a 50 percent match to Deep Portage Learning Center's projects this summer to bring …
