The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Sandbagging, unfortunately, is alive and well in various parts of Otter Tail County. The sandbagging station still is in place at the Fergus Falls city maintenance garage along Peck Street, near the Eagles Ship. Otter Tail County still has sandbagging stations in operation at Pelican Rapids, Battle Lake and Perham. “I made use of the [...]Mountain

The 17 departments that comprise Otter Tail County government will likely be cut in half in the next several months. That’s the consensus of county department heads and county commissioners who met in a joint public meeting Friday at the Bigwood Event Center in Fergus Falls. “Right now, this group is positive about reducing the [...]

Cleaning of all air handling units that have contamination in the courthouse complex, south of downtown Fergus Falls, will be completed before year’s end. On Tuesday the county board approved the low bid for this project by DCI Specialty Contracting Company of Ramsey, a suburb of the Twin Cities. Their bid was $28,096. “Cleaning will [...]

On Tuesday the county board authorized Otter Tail County Probation, Human Services and partner agencies to utilize up to $47,754 in local and county funds as the financial match required to receive federal funds for Specialty Court Services. Previously, the Otter Tail County DWI Court was awarded a two-year enhancement grant totaling $191,015. The mission [...]

As Otter Tail County continues its studies to come up with a viable long-term plan on how to reorganize, the goals remain the same: save dollars for taxpayers and provide services with better efficiency in mind. “Change is difficult, but necessary,” said Commissioner Doug Huebsch during Tuesday’s weekly meeting of the Otter Tail County Board [...]

Dairy farmer Roy Koehler of rural New York Mills, following Tuesday’s county board meeting, can now move forward with a dairy expansion permit. Koeher plans to build a new barn of 70 feet by 112 feet, for an additional 50 cows, in Homestead County north of New York Mills. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) [...]

Otter Tail County’s Human Services Agency, seeing employees doing more with fewer people due to a hiring freeze since December 2008, is taking a close look at sharing responsibilities with Becker, Clay and Wilkin counties. Those counties and others in Region 4 will develop a Service Delivery Authority (SDA) in a manner that will jointly [...]

“People in western Otter Tail County feel this would result in taxation without representation.”

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