Clitherall News

The Otter Tail County Historical Society will be sponsoring a tour of Mt. Pleasant Cemetery at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, June 1. High on a hill overlooking Clitherall Lake is the resting place of many Cutlerites who organized the settlement of Clitherall.

Although the pace has been slowed by an economy that discouraged mobility, people in their 30s and 40s have continued to move to parts of rural Minnesota that otherwise are characterized by populations that are aging and declining, new research shows.

Posted at 11:43 AM on May 16, 2012 by Jennifer Vogel Filed under: Broadband , Community Development , Economic Development , Rural "Growing up in the Twin Cities, I never thought I'd be standing under a tree someday, plucking chickens," said Karen Tolkkinen, who moved to Clitherall, in west central Minnesota, in 2010.