Daughter, mother team up to coach Frazee team By Barbie Porter Editor  The Frazee High School dance program has a longtime dancer steering the ship and a well-known educator as an assistant. Isabella Matejka was hired as head coach and her mother (and integration/intervention specialist) Becky Matejka as an assistant coach. Matejka graduated from Frazee High School in… Read More

Decommissioning event center elevator considered By Barbie Porter Editor  The Frazee Municipal Liquor Store has broke from its history and appears to be cutting a new, profitable path.  During the Frazee City Council meeting on Monday, Oct. 18, Councilman Mark Kemper applauded the store’s employees and noted the city-owned store is currently in the black by $46,565. “I… Read More

By Barbie Porter Editor  Twice Blessed continues to hand out blessings. The thrift store in Frazee offers a variety of lightly used products, then takes the proceeds and gives it back to the community. Recently,  the store provided a check for $1,000 to CornerStone. CornerStone is a group leading the vision for providing the community with a… Read More

By Barbie Porter Editor  The Otter Tail County’s Planning Commission approved a motion to table the expansion request of Loon Lake Resort in Vergas, at the applicant’s request. The matter will be reviewed again with an updated plan, as well as an environmental impact worksheet. A boating density study will also be requested from the Department… Read More

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a report of zebra mussels in Mahnomen Lake and East Mahnomen Lake in Crow Wing County. A landowner reported finding zebra mussels on equipment in front of their property on Mahnomen Lake. A DNR invasive species specialist immediately found numerous and abundant adult zebra mussels on a dock post. … Read More

Question: Can you talk more about school bus safety? I’ve seen a lot of school bus stop arm violations lately. Answer: This is an important topic. Here is some information we shared on our DPS blog recently. “After a year of seeing very few (if any) school buses in your neighborhood, you may have spent the… Read More

Earlier this year we unveiled a new website for the Citizen’s Advocate, New York Mills Dispatch and Frazee-Vergas Forum.  While we have heard a number of positive comments about the overall design, readability and functionality of the new websites, we have also heard a few concerns in regards to our e-editions. In the past, an email… Read More

It was just before July 4, 1969, up by the DMZ in Vietnam, and Tex—a fellow draftee from, well—and I had just been assigned to sandbag duty. You see, I had come up with a fairly undefined idea to make a rocket from gunpowder with which to celebrate the 4th. “Fairly undefined” covers it pretty well,… Read More

Long Lake, near Brainerd in Crow Wing County. Five hundred feet of the Nokasippi River immediately upstream and downstream of South Long Lake will also be listed for zebra mussels. A lake service provider business informed a landowner that they may have found zebra mussels on dock equipment in Upper South Long Lake when removing it… Read More