LEADER-The Soo Line Trail bridge at Federal Dam will be replaced in the location it always has been, Cass County commissioners decided Tuesday, June 18. That bridge was destroyed by fire last fall.
LEADER-Minnesota Department of Transportation agreed to pay Cass County $1,091.66 for road life consumed when the state uses 1.9 miles of County State Aid Highway 21 for a detour planned around a portion of state Highway 200 north of Walker.
EAST GULL LAKE -- Cass County commissioners unanimously adopted the new Mississippi Headwaters Board Comprehensive Plan at their regular meeting at East Gull Lake City Hall Tuesday, July 16.
EAST GULL LAKE -- A new weed was added to Cass County's noxious weed list. Tuesday, July 16, the Cass County Board voted to add Tall Buttercup to its noxious weeds list.
WALKER -- Cass County has sold 327.48 acres on 37 land parcels valued at $515,785 so far this year. That includes 13 parcels sold over the counter at the land department office in Backus and another 24 parcels sold at a July 11 annual auction.
WALKER -- Cass County will receive a $1,234,664 state payment in lieu of taxes and a $106,987 state wildlife management (formerly public hunting grounds) funds in 2019.
WALKER -- "We were pleased with the compromised outcome," District 5B Rep. Sandy Layman, R-Cohasset, said Tuesday, Aug. 6, giving her view to the Cass County Board of this year's state legislative session.
WALKER -- The new Cass County economic development policy the commissioners adopted Tuesday, Sept. 3, relies heavily on state statutes. It does not allow any tax abatements in areas of the county in a tax increment financing district.
WALKER - Cass County Environmental Services Department will get two used pieces of equipment from the highway department to use at the main garbage and recycling transfer station, the county board decided Tuesday, Sept. 3.
WALKER -- Cass County had five foreclosures in the second quarter this year, about half the number in each of the preceding three years. Three were homesteads. One was a seasonal recreational. One was a commercial property.
WALKER -- Cass County commissioners Tuesday, Sept. 3, set the county's 2020 preliminary tax levy at 3.4% above the 2019 levy, but with the stipulation the citizen budget committee must cut that increase to no more than 3% before the board sets the final levy in December.
THUNDER LAKE TOWNSHIP -- A new Cass County committee will draft a county policy on tax abatements before the county board will decide whether to grant an abatement to a business at Pine River.
THUNDER LAKE TOWNSHIP -- Receiving public input, researching and drafting the Leech Lake River One Watershed One Plan cost a total of $191,001.45. Cass County Board approved the final $13,426 payment Tuesday, Aug. 20, during its meeting at Thunder Lake Town Hall. RESPEC of Rapid City, S.D., prepared the plan …
