Online tool helps to guide care options Essentia Health is launching a new feature within MyChart that helps identify why someone might not be feeling quite right and what level of care they should seek.  The MyChart Symptom Checker is a convenient, interactive web tool that allows patients to input their symptoms at any time of… Read More

Feeding ban has been lifted for Wadena County The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has removed deer feeding or feeding and attractant bans in 24 counties to focus restrictions on areas where risk of chronic wasting disease spread is of greatest concern. “The DNR uses feeding and attractant bans as a tool to reduce unnatural crowding of… Read More

By Tyler Trieglaff Notes from the Chief Haying season is still going strong. We have just over 300 round bales rolled up on our goal to 1,000. Not sure if we will make it or not, we will need a lot of rain to fill out any first crop that is left and to give the second… Read More

Photo by Robert Williams City Hall in Vergas got a big splash of color after the installation of the birdhouse projects that were painted by more than 100 kids during the the fourth annual Vergas Kids Arts Camp that was held Saturday, June 10.

Frazee teen blends classic, creative designs By Lori Fischer Thorp Correspondent At first glance, the words “graduate” and “crochet” might seem totally unrelated.  ¶  At 19, Taylor Crabtree is what one might call an old soul, who learned some crochet fundamentals from her grandmother years ago and has now transformed them into her own kind of… Read More

Former VFW manager in court next on July 24 By Robert Williams Editor Anne Tonette Omundson was taken into custody at the Becker County Jail after a warrant was served for her arrest on Thursday, June 15. District Court Judge Gretchen Thilmony issued a bench warrant for Omundson’s arrest a week ago after Omundson failed to… Read More

Grotte remains on staff another year By Robert Williams Editor Krysten Foster was appointed as the new Otter Tail County Highway Engineer at the Board of Commissioners meeting in Fergus Falls on Tuesday, June 13. Foster was welcomed by deputy administrator Nicholas Leonard and will be replacing Chuck Grotte, who will stay on staff for approximately the next year…. Read More

New track and football field ribbon cutting in July By Robert Williams Editor Superintendent Terry Karger was excited to report to the school board on the return of two mental health specialists provided by Stellher Human Services for the coming school year during the school board’s monthly meeting on Monday, July 12. The specialists were on board… Read More

FCDC officially acquires Wannigan Park land By Robert Williams Editor An asbestos inspection determined there were no asbestos-containing materials detected in the former Seip Drug building, which will allow the buildings to be torn down once records belonging to Seip Drug are removed from the basement.  Seip Drug has until the end of the week to complete… Read More

An Otter Tail County Jail inmate was taken to Lake Region Hospital in Fergus Falls and later transferred to a Fargo hospital after a suicide attempt on Tuesday, June 13, at approximately 6:33 p.m., according to the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office. According to a press release, a corrections officer found an inmate in medical distress… Read More