BRAINERD -The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has penalized Cass County and Tri-City Paving for stormwater violations resulting from a culvert replacement project on County Highway 17, about four miles west of Pequot Lakes, Minn.
WALKER - Emergency Services Director Kerry Swenson reported to Cass County commissioners Tuesday upgrades on the Pillager communications tower have significantly improved emergency communications in southern Cass. There are significant signal improvements than there were previously, he said.
WALKER - Jared Olson obtained county board approval Tuesday, Dec. 3, to clean trash and improve sanitation at the mid-winter Eelpout Festival he sponsors each winter on Leech Lake in Walker.
WALKER - Five county commissioners and seven county employees convened Cass County's annual budget hearing for the public at 6 p.m. Tuesday, but no members of the public braved the freezing rain and ice slicked roads to attend.
WALKER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to pay Family Safety Network $5,000 per calendar year for the next three years to assist victims of domestic violence in the county. Family Safety Network is a nonprofit organization which focuses on preventing domestic violence through education and assists law enforcement and …
WALKER - Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson obtained county board approval Tuesday to set the minimum salary for elected officials at Step 1 on the county pay scale, preliminary to the 2014 elections.
WALKER - Cass County commissioners opened their first 2014 meeting by electing Bob Kangas chair and Neal Gaalswyk vice chair. They reviewed four applications from legal firms wanting to succeed contract attorney Tom Fitzpatrick as the county's legal counsel for labor negotiation and legal labor issues.
Cass County Sheriff Tom Burch reports that on 9-14-2013 at approximately 01:56 AM the Cass County Sheriff's Office received a report of a motor vehicle accident with injuries on County Rd 71 in Hiram Twp, on the west side of Ten Mile Lake
WALKER - Cass County will conduct a public hearing before the planning commission at 11 a.m. Feb. 10 at the land department building in Backus on proposed changes to the county's individual sewer system regulations.
BACKUS - Cass County commissioners will review a preliminary draft April 1 and hold a public hearing May 6 at regular 9 a.m. board meetings at the courthouse in Walker on an updated capital improvement plan.
BACKUS - Chief Sheriff's Deputy Erick Hoglund and Lt. Joel Norenberg informed Cass County commissioners Tuesday about rising jail inmate populations and challenges to find housing for prisoners.
BACKUS - John Ringle, Cass County environmental services director, reported zoning permits issued in 2013 indicate new development in the county remains about level with 2012.
WALKER - State Sen. Tom Saxhaug, DFL-Grand Rapids, met with Cass County commissioners Tuesday, Feb. 4th, to reflect on 2013 legislation and to learn issues Cass officials want the 2014 session to address.
WALKER - The Cass County Sheriff's Office announces that the next "Community Outreach Day" will be held Wednesday, March 5, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Crooked Lake Township building located at 6300 Woods Bay Drive, Outing.
WALKER - Sheriff Tom Burch noted in his annual report to the county board that deputies cut average response time to calls from 15 minutes to 9.9 in 2013, despite a 5.5 percent rise in the number of calls for service.
