Dan Friedrichsen News Today

PRIMGHAR—The O’Brien County Suicide Prevention Coalition’s first year of existence was filled with events that spread positivity to county residents while helping them discuss suicide and mental illness.

PRIMGHAR—A realignment of the Iowa Department of Public Health’s collaborative service areas means O’Brien County won’t be able to contract with Webster County for several public health programs after 2022.

PRIMGHAR—Sioux Rivers Mental Health & Disabilities Services needs some extra information technology assistance, although O’Brien County will wait to approve on an agreement to offer it.

PRIMGHAR—Before the O’Brien County Board of Supervisors set the auction date and minimum price for the county’s rental farmland at its Sept. 6 meeting, it heard a proposal from Primghar

PRIMGHAR—Changes could be on the way for how O’Brien County and other member counties of the Northwest Iowa Regional Housing Trust Fund can expend money the trust gets each year.

PRIMGHAR—O’Brien County will soon start collecting its share of funds from a national opioid settlement.

PRIMGHAR—O’Brien County is a step closer to getting a drainage district easement agreement in place for the carbon-capture pipelines set to roll through the county in the coming years.

PRIMGHAR—The O’Brien County Board of Supervisors was planning to consider approving a contract with the Centers Against Abuse and Sexual Assault for fiscal year 2022-23 during its Tuesday, June 28,

PRIMGHAR—For the time being, O’Brien County will stick with its existing mileage reimbursement rate of 50 cents per mile for county employees.

PRIMGHAR—A question-and-answer session of the proposed Heartland Greenway carbon-capture pipeline took up much of the O’Brien County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, June 14.