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The Becker County Board approved the low bids for precast concrete, poured concrete, masonry, steel installation and steel supply, totaling about $3.8 million, on Tuesday. ....
Elbow Lake uproar over proposed 49-unit RV campground “If this gets approved, where does it stop?” asked one property owner. “What’s the limit on projects of this type?” Written By: Nathan Bowe | × Elbow Lake residents showed up at the Becker County Board meeting Tuesday, July 20, 2021 to voice concern about a proposed RV campground on the lake. (Nathan Bowe/Tribune) A proposed RV resort on Elbow Lake has generated a wave of protest from lakeshore owners, and ran into some resistance from the Becker County Board on Tuesday, July 20. Joey Stahl of Amenia, N.D., owns about 50 acres on and near Elbow Lake and requested a conditional use permit to put in a 49-unit RV park there. Elbow Lake is in Becker County on the White Earth Reservation, roughly centered between White Earth Village, Ponsford and Naytahwaush. ....
Fire chiefs in Becker County call for another full-time sheriff s dispatcher “The population of Becker County has increased by 2,000 residents since 2010. Our call records have increased during this time as well (and) this year we are on a pace to break previous call records,” one fire chief said. Written By: Nathan Bowe | × Audubon Fire Chief Chris Wiedenmeyer, right, and Detroit Lakes Fire Chief Ryan Swanson , left, at table, talked to the Becker County Board Tuesday about the need for another full-time dispatcher in the sheriff s office, as Sheriff Todd Glander observes from the back of the room. (Nathan Bowe/Tribune) ....
Becker County commissioners balk at spending millions to remodel old jail at courthouse “A total remodel may cost between $2.5 million and $3.5 million,” County Administrator Mike Brethorst said in a memo to the commissioners. Written By: Nathan Bowe | × The old Becker County Jail central control center is shown in this 2014 file photo. “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage,” as the poet Richard Lovelace said, but they sure get in the way when you’re trying to create some office space in what used to be the Becker County Jail. Becker County has over 14,000 square feet of vacant real estate on the floor above the sheriff’s office in the courthouse the only problem is that it’s full of old jail cells, steel doors and corridors. ....
Becker County commissioners balk at spending millions to remodel old jail at courthouse “A total remodel may cost between $2.5 million and $3.5 million,” County Administrator Mike Brethorst said in a memo to the commissioners. Written By: Nathan Bowe | × The old Becker County Jail central control center is shown in this 2014 file photo. “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage,” as the poet Richard Lovelace said, but they sure get in the way when you’re trying to create some office space in what used to be the Becker County Jail. Becker County has over 14,000 square feet of vacant real estate on the floor above the sheriff’s office in the courthouse the only problem is that it’s full of old jail cells, steel doors and corridors. ....