Fergus Falls Forum

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — (11 a.m.) The Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Minnesota State Patrol urge motorists to drive with caution as flooding affects area highways in Clay, Wilkin, Mahnomen and Big Stone counties. Road closures The following state highways are closed until further notice: Highway 75 near Kent is closed from Wilkin County Road 24 to Wilkin County Road 22. The roadway is under water, causing dangerous driving conditions. Traffic is detoured using Wilkin County Roads... Read More →

From the hockey arena to an open forum, there were plenty of topics discussed at Monday night’s City Council meeting. To begin with, there are some changes in store for the proposed hockey arena. Those changes include a second floor being added above the lobby, a walking track (which would be built on the floor level of the arena around the main rink), and curling may be added to the satellite rink. The satellite arena would hold four to five curling rinks. Dan Edwards, the City Engineer, also... Read More →

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — (9:45 a.m.) The Minnesota Department of Transportation and the Minnesota State Patrol urge motorists to drive with caution as flooding affects area highways in Wilkin and Mahnomen counties. Road closures The following state highways are closed until further notice: · Highway 75 near Kent is closed from Wilkin County Road 24 to Wilkin County Road 22. The roadway is under water, causing dangerous driving conditions. Traffic is detoured using Wilkin County Roads 3 and... Read More →

The Red River in Fargo-Moorhead, and the smaller rivers that feed it, are rising faster than predicted just a few days ago and are on pace to approach the record flood levels seen last year. The National Weather Service predicted that the Red River in the Fargo-Moorhead area would reach 38 feet by early Saturday morning, which will leave the area roughly one week to prepare once again. The new prediction came two days after the National Weather Service announced it would hit 28.2 feet by Friday,... Read More →

Juniors and Seniors at Perham High School will be able to combine in-classroom instruction with an online mix starting next year. Its something that the school is calling “Hybrid” classes. These classes bring the best of both worlds to the table when it comes to education, which will advocate independent learning and cut classroom instruction time. Instructors will be revamping their traditional lectures, and produce new online content which will include various activities, such as... Read More →

Mark Hansen, the Otter Tail County District Court Jude, has issued a temporary injunction that will not allow Fergus Falls residents to vote in a special election on April 22nd on a proposed spending ordinance. Mark Hansen, Otter Tail County’s District Judge, issued a temporary restraining order, on Tuesday, which will halt the upcoming election. A hearing on June 23rd is set in which he’ll consider a permanent injunction for the proposed ordinance. According to the Fergus Falls Daily Journal,... Read More →

“Grow Fergus Falls, Inc.” is seeking an injunction that would delay or stop the upcoming April 22nd special vote on a proposed spending ordinance. The people behind Grow Fergus Falls include Robert Block, Scott Wagnald, Kelsey Felstul, Chad Felstul, and Erik Ahlgren, with attorneys Morrie Kershner and Steve Rufer representing them. On the court hearing on March 5th, Kershner  told Judge Mark Hansen that the proposed spending ordinance, brought together by the Fergus Votes Committee, is unworkable... Read More →

The Minnesota Department of Transportation closed the Iverson Lake rest area at approximately 1 p.m. due to flooding. The Iverson Lake rest area is located south of Fergus Falls on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 94. The rest area will be closed until further notice. ### Spring truck weight restrictions begin next week in all state frost zones Legal truck weight limits that were increased during the winter months in Minnesota will end next week. Spring weight restrictions will begin at the same... Read More →

Drivers around the soon-to-be-opened Kennedy Secondary School in Fergus Falls can most likely expect some changes. Both middle and high school students in the Fergus Falls school district will be housed in the Kennedy Secondary School building, which will be open for the 2010-11 school year. Students who choose to take classes such as automotive will have to make the trek to the current high school building, which will mean students will have to walk back and forth between the two schools on a regular... Read More →

A manslaughter charge is being sought against a man who took to a handgun to a party in Fergus Falls on Friday after a woman who took the gun from him for safety’s sake ended up shot. Fergus Falls police took 24-year-old Devin Edward Gray into custody shortly after noon on suspicion of second-degree manslaughter, said Timothy Brennan, the city’s police chief. Police think that Gray brought a semi-automatic, small-caliber handgun to a party at a mobile home in the Lakeview Estates Mobile Home... Read More →