The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

The Fergus Falls City Council blocked on Monday a major home security company from selling door-to-door in the city. The council rejected the appeal of Vivint, Inc. based on what qualifies under city policy as bad business practices. Under city code, a business has bad business practices if it has received three or more complaints [...]basement

Right now, Fergus Falls’ city operations aren’t suffering too much from a government shutdown. That could change if a budget bill isn’t approved by the Legislature and the governor’s office soon. Potentially the biggest hiccup is the Tower Road bridge project. City Engineer Dan Edwards explained that the city opens bids for the project on [...]

The Fergus Falls city council is entertaining an offer on part of the Regional Treatment Center, but residents will have to wait until city staff does its homework before a decision is made. The unnamed buyer has offered a confidential sum of money for just under three acres of property on the southeast portion of [...]

Visitors and residents of Fergus Falls can now see the city’s historic side with the help of a new brochure from the Otter Tail County Historic Society and the Historic Preservation Committee. The brochure, which was funded by a Legacy grant, collects 40 pages of Fergus Falls’ historical buildings and structures and gives a brief [...]

The city council’s special Monday night meeting went off without a hitch, as the full council unanimously approved some further expenditures on the community ice arena building project. The vote came a week after the council’s regular June 20 meeting, in which a change order of about $48,000 failed to get approved because two aldermen [...]

The Fergus Falls city council approved the timeline for redevelopment of the remaining Regional Treatment Center property on Monday, setting August 1 as the date that developers can first see the city’s official request for proposals (RFP). Interested developers have until Nov. 18 to submit a letter of interest and until Feb. 1, 2012 to [...]

Hollywood might finally get its day in Fergus Falls. On Monday night, the city council voted to express its openness to the Kirkbride building being used in a movie, described as “a comedy in the Monty Python type of a genre” by Community Development Director Gordon Hydukovich. The city’s Convention and Visitors Bureau had been [...]

Scott Rachels and Randy Synstelien blocked the city council from committing more money to additions to the new ice arena – at least for one week. The absence of Jim Fish and Jay Cichosz at Monday night’s city council meeting allowed the two aldermen who have been most outspoken about the council’s handling of the [...]

A generous gift of almost $1 million has put the Fergus Falls Library on track to finally get its expansion. The gift, given in the will of longtime Fergus Falls resident Elizabeth Cowles, leaves the library $932,765.62, with the possibility for $20,000 to $40,000 more down the road. The council approved a resolution from the [...]

A Fergus Falls resident sometimes seen with signs or an old American Flag on the corner of Lincoln and Union avenues came to the city council meeting on Monday to protest the Operation: Spring Cleanup drug sting. Joshua Lake read from a lengthy letter during the council’s open forum segment. The letter protested what he [...]