Vergas News

School officials in Minnesota no longer have to worry that successful levy referendums will later be overturned by voters.

After Tony Johnson got his third DWI in June 2007 he decided hea d had enough of court appearances, jail time and fines.

As vice president of the Otter Tail Coalition of Lake Associations , Shawn Olson wants to do her part in helping to preserve area lakes.

The Frazee-Vergas School District is keeping several probationary teachers after board members split the vote 3-3 on cutting them from the budget.

On Saturday, at 4:30 p.m., a 78-year-old man and his son were traveling along Trowbridge Circle near Vergas when an occupant of the vehicle in front of them threw a beer bottle out the window.

About 75 people gathered Monday evening for a continuation of the drama that is the Frazee-Vergas School Board.

Emergency Medical Services Week has become an annual tradition in Perham, and this year the obervance will be May 20 from 11-3 p.m. Free lunch and tours will be given at the Perham EMS facility.

Fire destroyed the offices of the Kelley Bean Company late Friday night, May 1. Four fire departments worked to extinguish the blaze in the Perham Industrial Park, with some firefighters at the scene until 4:30 a.m. on Saturday.

A Frazee-Vergas special education teacher is vowing to challenge his contract nonrenewal all the way to the courts after budget cuts this spring claimed his job.

A Vergas woman made her first court appearance Monday on felony check forgery charges.

Frazee-Vergas School Superintendent Deron Stender says making a 2009-10 budget is based on a "big assumption" due to too many variables not yet decided.

When Frazee-Vergas School Board member Steve Jepson asked to be added to the board's agenda Monday evening, no one knew the drama it would cause a couple hours into the meeting.

Denta s Don Garber has been singing since he was a little tyke--and its a hobby he has continued with ever since.

A man who lost control of his Ford van and caused a 10-car accident in downtown Detroit Lakes on Tuesday suffers from a medical condition and will not face charges, but he may lose his license, according to Detroit Lakes Police Patrol Sgt.

A March blizzard has moved on after dumping up to a foot of snow or more and causing at least one traffic death in northwestern Minnesota.

Storm conditions were a factor in a traffic death near Vergas on March 10. The name of the victim has not been released by the Otter Tail County Sheriffa s Department, as of 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night.

Rep. Bud Nornes is at the forefront of an effort to protect district operating levies from easily being overturned.

Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend NewsMakers March NewsMakers 3/3/2009 Beacon Bank Stephanie Hargan joined the Shorewood, MN-based bank as a personal banking officer for the Duluth market.

Icy conditions in Becker and Otter Tail counties put school officials and parents in a scramble mode to get students home on Tuesday afternoon.

School buses in the Detroit Lakes School District will not be traveling on dirt roads today after school.