The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

The first meeting of the RTC marketing task force saw the group still trying to define itself, but members did establish at least three objectives to move forward with: pursue multiple options, communicate clearly and move quickly. The latter objective was the one talked about most by the task force, created by the Fergus Falls [...]

After the Fergus Falls City Council’s landmark decision May 7 to move toward demolition of most of the city’s Kirkbride building, the council focused on three smaller-scale Regional Treatment Center issues at its Monday night meeting.   Parcel D4 After months of delays and deliberation, the council finally picked a local developer to move forward [...]

City staff knew the meeting was going to be big, but they didn’t know how big. When around 200 people tried to crowd into the Fergus Falls City Council chamber on May 7 to learn about the possible demolition of the Kirkbride building, it was more people than the city was expecting — or could [...]

The two developers vying for six houses on the Regional Treatment Center property near the intersection of Fir and Union avenues will have to keep waiting, as the Fergus Falls City Council on Monday delayed a decision on who it will sell the property to yet again. After hearing the two developers’ pitches, alderman asked [...]

It is common knowledge that dollars spent with the businesses in one’s local community have a 5 to 7 times impact on the local economy because they turn around in that community many times. It is also common knowledge that communities the size of Fergus Falls who are successful in job creation take advantage of [...]

I typed most of the following information about 8 years ago and I felt I should submit this to the “Letter to the Editor” since that was my original plan. While working at the RTC I found framed articles from full pages of the Fergus Falls Weekly Journal sitting against a wall next to a [...]

No state in the union has provided more generously for its wards and unfortunates than Minnesota. Its splendid educational facilities are supplemented by institutions for caring for the deaf, the dumb, the blind, the defective, the indigent, the insane, and are all cared for in the most perfect institutions which money can secure. Of the [...]

The legislature of 1885 provided for a commission to locate a site for a new hospital for the insane. St Peter and Rochester both being in the southern portion of the state, the third hospital was sure to come north of the Twin Cities. The commission visited the various towns in northern Minnesota, but the [...]

I love the sight of those buildings. They are the product of people who took pride in their work and what they were doing when they built it, maintained it, performed their duties caring for and ministering to the many patients over the years. It was built in a time when we had higher standards [...]

As the possibility of demolition looms for the Fergus Falls Kirkbride, two state agencies are discussing whether proper procedures were taken by the Minnesota state government before the property was turned over to the city. On Monday, city officials announced that Fergus Falls had been copied on a letter from the State Historic Preservation Office [...]