CASS LAKE - Cass County will receive $480,000 this year from the three-eighths cent state sales tax to purchase forested habitat land in the county. Land Commissioner Joshua Stevenson said numerous property owners have approached the county to sell their land to the public. Tuesday, the board authorized Stevenson to …
WALKER - Sharon Anderson, Cass County auditor-treasurer, described for the county board Tuesday potential costs she sees if voters approve the voter identification amendment that will be on the November ballot. Some of the possible costs to counties would depend upon how voter photo identification would be implemented, Anderson said.
WALKER - Land Commissioner Joshua Stevenson informed the Cass County Board on Tuesday that eight of 18 land parcels the county offered for sale at a June 23 auction sold, with a ninth selling over the counter since the auction.
WALKER - Mardi Harder, University of Minnesota extension service regional director, obtained county board approval Tuesday for a contract under which the county continues to provide a full-time 4-H coordinator and a part-time nutrition specialist. The contract covers three years running from Jan. 1, 2013 through Dec. 31, 2015. Under …
WALKER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to accept the lowest of three quotes to move two large propane tanks from Ah-Gwah-Ching to sites adjacent to the courthouse and highway department. Gas Service Company will move the tanks, install piping, provide new vaporizers and paint the tanks for $151,850. The …
LAKE SHORE - Cass County commissioners approved a contract with Gas Service Company at their regular meeting Tuesday night at Fairview Town Hall to move two propane tanks from Ah-Gwah-Ching to the courthouse and highway garage in Walker. Cost will be $151,850. The board also approved selling a third 18,000 …
LAKE SHORE - Cass County Board awarded a highway construction contract Tuesday to low bidder of five, Tri City Paving of Little Falls, for $2,001,836.56. The award is subject to Minnesota Department of Transportation approval. The project will include improvements to County Roads 166 and 136 and County State Aid …
LAKE SHORE - The Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) is expected to rule in a week to 10 days whether Cass County can be added to the list of 13 Minnesota Counties already declared a disaster area from flooding rain and wind storms that have hit since May. State officials …
LAKE SHORE - "The residential market in outstate Minnesota, specifically Cass County, continues to trend downward slowly with very few instances of rising markets." Minnesota Department of Revenue made this statement in its annual comment on Cass County's land appraisals for taxes to be collected this year. Each year, the …
WALKER - Gail Leverson, Cass County Economic Development Corporation (EDC) director, said she now is getting a lot of calls from healthy businesses wanting to expand. Though the county's unemployment rate remains higher at 7.8 percent than what she feels is a more normal average of 6 percent, it is …
WALKER - Laura Hadrava, Cass County highway construction and design engineer, reported to the county board Tuesday that the department is on schedule to complete all planned road construction work this year. Projects already completed include work on County State Aid Highways (CSAH) 1, 34, 203 (Front street in Backus) …
WALKER - The public infrastructure damage tally for the July 2 wind and rain storm that hit Beltrami, Itasca and Cass Counties so far is not high enough to qualify for FEMA funding, Kerry Swenson, Cass County emergency services director, told Cass commissioners Tuesday. Cass is one of several northern …
WALKER - Cass County will qualify for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding for repairs to public infrastructure resulting from June 20 storm damage, Kerry Swenson, county emergency services director, announced Monday. He said the county was denied FEMA funding to reimburse the county for damage repairs to county roads …
When Potlatch owned a paper mill plant in Brainerd, the company also owned a large amount of land in Cass County used to grow timber to supply the plant. Potlatch closed its paper mill operation in March 2002 and subsequently sold the mill, but not the timberlands they owned in …
Cass County commissioners conducted their regular meeting Tuesday night at Becker Township Hall in the southwest corner of the county. They set a Sept. 10 planning commission public hearing at the land department in Backus on proposed changes to the county land use ordinance. The time is tentatively set for …
