WALKER-Cass County Board adopted a county buffer ordinance Tuesday to meet the newer state laws requiring a vegetative buffer between cultivated farm fields and waterways.
WALKER-"Our STS (Sentence to Service) is thriving," Chief Deputy Erick Hoglund told the Cass County Board Tuesday, also noting several neighboring county STS programs have declined and closed.
WALKER-While the city of Walker supports Cass County's current plan to stay in the city's downtown for the foreseeable future, the city would like to see some development take place at Ah-Gwah-Ching soon.
BACKUS-Cass County Board approved a resolution Tuesday calling for the Minnesota Legislature to fund "regional behavioral health crisis program facilities and permanent supportive housing for people with behavioral health needs."
BACKUS-Cass County will receive $135,635 from the state toward purchasing new voting equipment before this fall's elections, Election Administrator Sharon Anderson reported Tuesday to the county board.
BACKUS-Cass County Planning Director Paul Fairbanks reported Tuesday to the county board that 1,105 land use zoning permits issued in 2017 topped the 974 issued in 2016.
WALKER-Six people who use Plantain Trail Northwest in Pine Lake Township to access their property Tuesday asked the county board to order their town board to improve the road.
WALKER-Cass County commissioners Tuesday approved a 10-year contract with K.R. Drenth Trucking Inc. to operate the county's garbage and recycling disposal program.
WALKER-The Cass County Board voted Tuesday to permit the Minnesota Department of Transportation to use County Highway 40 as part of a detour during resurfacing on Highway 371 from Hackensack to Backus this summer.
WALKER-The Cass County Board voted Tuesday to participate in one state program, but to delay action until its March 20 meeting on another, because commissioners Scott Bruns and Dick Downham were absent from Tuesday's meeting.
WALKER-Woodrow Township Board Chair Myles Wagner asked the Cass County Board to call a moratorium on new cellphone towers in the county during Tuesday's commissioners' meeting.
WALKER-Cass County Probation Director Jim Schneider and Minnesota Department of Corrections District Supervisor Victor Moen presented their annual reports to the Cass County Board Tuesday.
