5 years ago

Frazee-Vergas Forum

September 1, 2020

The Frazee-Vergas School District will start the year with in-person classes at the elementary level and a hybrid plan at the high school. During the Frazee-Vergas School Board special meeting on Monday, Aug. 24, Superintendent Terry Karger explained the decision was based on the fact COVID-19 case numbers in Becker County have not been consistently below the recommended threshold. Also, the last holiday weekend (Fourth of July) resulted in a spike of cases, and the school year starts after the Labor Day holiday weekend.

A veteran memorial was approved to be built in Vergas and the design will bring patriotic flair to the city’s downtown corridor. During the Vergas Planning Commission meeting on Monday, Aug. 24, Vergas Lions Club member Dennis Breitzman said the memorial was initially planned for Peterson Park, but the city park committee recommended moving it to a location near the baseball fields.

Long before unrest between some communities and police departments became a topic of daily news, Tucker Nundahl knew the profession was his calling. The son of Cally and Darby Nundahl, rural Frazee, listened to stories that his father shared about working as a deputy sheriff for Becker County. The thought that he could one day be as helpful struck a chord in his youth and it stuck into early adulthood.

25 years ago

Frazee Forum

August 31, 2000

The Becker County stretch of the Otter Tail River experienced its most ambitious cleanup ever to mark the end of the summer tubing season. Conducted Aug. 24-25, it yielded: Fifty 40-gallon bags and 28 33-gallon bags of cans, bottles, sun glasses, shoes and styrofoam. “Some cans had been there 25 years,” said Deputy Tim Gordon, who coordinated the cleanup effort. “There were jars from the ‘50s and beer cans outlawed in ’71.” Nine tires, hundreds of feet of twine from tubes, two dozen steel fence posts, a bed spring, snowmobile parts, motorcycle stuff. “There was stuff from 80 years of logging,” said Gordon. “But now,” he said with authority, “it is clean.”

Work on the new bridge over Becker County Highway 10 east of Frazee is almost done. Weather permitting, Becker County Construction Manager Brian Shepard hopes the gravel base for the road will be laid by today (Thursday) with paving planned for Friday. Soon, it appears, travelers will be able to drive this road. Motorists should wait for the detour signs to be pulled from the site.

50 years ago

Frazee Forum

September 4, 1975

New permanent bleachers were constructed at the Frazee football field this summer and are ready for Frazee’s first home football game Friday night. The bleachers have a concrete base with five rows of redwood benching, each 120 feet long to accommodate about 500 people. Tom Schepper of Perham was the contractor. The football field was also re-sodded and tiled this summer in another major improvement.

Frazee’s Hornets lost their opening football game Friday night by a score of 22-20 to the New York Mills Eagles. The non-conference game was played at Mills. Frazee failed on a two-point conversion attempt in the final minute that would have tied the score and sent the game into a “sudden death” overtime period. An official ruled that Ross Mickelson had stepped out-of-bounds as he drove for the goal line at the corner marker. Mickelson had scored the Hornets final touchdown on a four-yard run with 50 seconds remaining on the game clock.