The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

It’s a wrap for now at the Regional Treatment Center, as the filmmakers of “Geist” concluded shooting for the psychological thriller film in the building on Sunday. Yet to come is a long editing process that director Eric Dunn hopes will lead to the film getting released by Halloween 2013. “It’s still an unwritten goal [...]

A third-floor hallway of the Fergus Falls Kirkbride building’s east wing teemed with people Sunday morning, sporting pale faces and open wounds. A camera crew was there to capture it all. But these people were not the ghosts some believe haunt the Regional Treatment Center grounds. Instead, they were approximately 100 volunteers who signed up [...]

With filming of the psychological thriller “Geist” in full swing at the Fergus Falls Regional Treatment Center, director Eric Dunn is loving the location. “It’s almost perfect,” he said. “It lends itself real easily to have a production here of this caliber and this size.” It also can easily be adapted to the chilling mood [...]

Kirstyn Johnson and Beau Brendmoen act out a chilling scene in the psychological thriller “Geist,” which began filming this weekend at the Regional Treatment Center.

After more negotiations with the state, Fergus Falls has gotten what appears almost certainly to be its last, latest drop-dead date to spend its Regional Treatment Center demolition grant: Dec. 31, 2014. The city council approved the amended grant agreement at its Monday night meeting. In addition to the pushed-back completion date (the last one [...]

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 [...]