WALKER-"I can't imagine having a more rewarding job," David Enblom said, looking back at the last 20 years he has spent as county engineer for Cass County. He was assistant county engineer for Cass 10 years before that.
BACKUS-Interim Health, Human and Veterans Services Director Michelle Piprude presented the department's 2016 annual report to the county board Tuesday. Child maltreatment allegations dropped from 2015. Neglect, the highest cause, declined from 450 to 423 cases. Physical abuse fell from 188 to 137 cases.
BACKUS-Cass County will not require any additional licenses or deviate from the state-set hours of operation when the new, statewide Sunday off-sale liquor sales take effect July 1. That state law permits off-sale stores to open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays.
BACKUS-It definitely is more cost effective to have paved roads rather than gravel roads, David Enblom, retiring county engineer, told the Cass County Board as he presented his final annual report Tuesday.
BACKUS-Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson presented a report on the 2016 election process and outlined her proposals for future election equipment replacement.
BACKUS-Cass County Probation Director Jim Schneider introduced Mindy O'Brien, the new director of Northwestern Minnesota Juvenile Center at Bemidji, to the county board Tuesday.
BACKUS-Kevin Lee of Longville Ambulance Service reported to Cass County commissioners Tuesday that the service transported 239 patients in 2016, up from 213 in 2015. Longville's service is a branch of North Memorial Medical Ambulance Services.
WALKER-Cass County commissioners Tuesday awarded a contract to the lowest of three bidders, Dechantal Excavating, for $88,294.55 to clear trees along County State Aid Highway 77.
WALKER-Cass County Highway Department and school districts located within the Chippewa National Forest receive an annual allocation from revenue the forest generates.
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.
