As of Monday, Oct. 11 through Friday, Oct. 15, motorists will encounter a temporary closure of the State Highway 87 railroad crossing in the City of Frazee. Traffic will be detoured to Juniper Avenue West/County Road 10, Fifth Street Northwest and Main Avenue West. During the closure, railroad crews will replace the existing crossing with wider… Read More

Perham recently recieved $912,500 in grant funding for owner-occupied housing and commercial rehabilitation. The city collected the funding through Small Cities Development Program (SCDP) grants offered by Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). More than $19 million was awarded to 32 cities. Perham recieved its grant funding in the second round. SCDP grants are part… Read More

Three Frazee residents earned degrees from Bemidji State University. Among the 5,000 students at the university earning degrees in the 2020-21 school year were • David Glander, a bachelor of science in industrial technology • Kendal Ware, a bachelor of science in elementary teacher education • Cassidy Ziegler, a bachelor of science in mass communications.

The transformation of rural health care continues as Sanford Health announced today an additional $350 million philanthropic gift that will support a cutting-edge clinical initiative to create one of the world’s leading virtual care centers to provide accessible care in rural and underserved areas of the Midwest. The state-of-the-art virtual care center will serve people from… Read More

5 years ago October 13, 2016 Frazee-Vergas Forum The 2017 budget is still in the process of being fine tuned, but Frazee Administrator Denise Anderson expects property owners in Frazee to see a 3.38 percent tax increase. The total expected revenue in the working budget for 2017 calls for $1.46 million, of which $285,500 comes from property… Read More

Dr. Maren Anderson, a family medicine physician specializing in obstetrics, is excited to welcome new patients at the Essentia Health St. Mary’s-Detroit Lakes Clinic. “I am excited to have the opportunity to continue my career with Essentia Health following residency,” said Anderson, who grew up in nearby Lake Park and has worked for Essentia in a… Read More

The DNR maintains hunter walking trails as easy ways to travel by foot through wildlife management areas, state and federal forests and other public hunting lands. The trails wind through prime habitat for ruffed grouse, American woodcock, wild turkey and white-tailed deer. There are more than 850 miles of hunter walking trails meandering throughout the northern… Read More

When we last saw reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), he had formed an uneasy alliance with Venom (also Hardy), the symbiote living in his body.  A symbiote is basically a second personality that can interact with its host, but also occasionally appear in physical form as a being with superpowers.  The setup is reminiscent of “Malignant,” a… Read More