WALKER - Sen. Tom Saxhaug, DFL- Grand Rapids, and Rep. John Persell, DFL-Bemidji discussed with the Cass County Board Tuesday results of the 2013 state legislative session. Dan Larson, lobbyist and director of Rural Minnesota Counties Caucus, also discussed legislative issues as they relate to rural counties.
WALKER - Cass County Board awarded a contract for about 90 percent of the county's state aid road construction work Tuesday to low bidder of five, Tri-City Paving, at $2,882,207.92 or 1.8 percent under engineering estimates.
PILLAGER - Cass County Board took steps Tuesday to move one proposed development project ahead and voted against plans for another. The board set a public hearing for the 9 a.m. Aug. 6 regular county board meeting at the courthouse in Walker to consider a request from Reed's Sporting Goods …
WALKER - Cass County Board held a special work session on June 17, to discuss its proposed five-year capital improvement plan. The board updates that plan annually. The county currently has more than $11 million in a capital projects fund, which has been created over several years by dedicating some …
The Cass County Economic Development Corporation (EDC) is looking for 16 new members to join this summer. Minnesota Business Finance Corporation has offered to help the EDC by matching any new membership investments received this summer.
At approximately 6:46 a.m. on July 2, 2013, the Cass County Sheriff's Office received a report of a robbery at a residence in the Sugar Point area, near Federal Dam. Officers arrived on scene and learned that there had been a home invasion and an assault at the residence.
WALKER - Cass County Board approved a final version of the five-year capital improvement plan Tuesday following a public hearing. It calls for making major energy savings and operating improvement changes to the county's highway department garages throughout the county rather than to build new garages. The plan anticipates doing …
WALKER - Cass County commissioners approved reorganizing plans for two county departments Tuesday. Control systems for monitoring the Cass County Jail in Walker will be added to the sheriff's office dispatch center. This will enable either a dispatcher or a jailer to manage the jail from a control center.
PILLAGER - Anyone wanting to run for county commissioner after Jan. 1, 2014, will have to disclose more about their personal finances and assets than in the past. These rules formerly applied only to those running for state offices or metro area positions. Legislative action this year extends the disclosure …
Sheriff Tom Burch reports that the Cass County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant on Tuesday, July 16 in the City of Pine River, pursuant to an ongoing investigation of animal cruelty. 102 dogs and 29 puppies were seized.
Farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers have until August 1 to nominate eligible candidates to serve on local Farm Service Agency county committees, announced Trisha McMonagle, County Executive Director of the Crow Wing-Cass USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA).
BACKUS - Cass County plans to try to fit the 2014 budget into the same levy dollar property tax amount the county has levied annually since 2009. That has been $20,046,613. This likely will mean the county can have no contingency fund going into 2014 to cover unexpected emergencies during …
The Cass Soil and Water Conservation District (Cass SWCD) is currently soliciting names of individuals desiring to be appointed to serve on the Cass SWCD Board of Supervisors. Due to the untimely death of David Harder, Supervisor from District 4 of Cass County, a current vacancy on the SWCD Board …
WALKER - Cass County commissioners voted to support two township positions on issues that came before the board Aug. 6. Shingobee Township July 10 endorsed a tax-increment financing (TIF) district for Reed's Sporting Goods to develop a distribution center in the Walker Industrial Park.
PINE RIVER - Cass County Board approved one improvement Tuesday night in a regular meeting held in Barclay Township and tabled until 2014 another for the county's recycling and garbage transfer station, located north of Pine River.
