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  • Joined: December 14, 2022
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Northern Counties benefit from legislative revenue boost

Northern Minnesota counties will receive a boost of nearly $9 Million thanks to the 2023 Legislature. The new funding is designed for Counties with large public land holdings and is known as Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILT). It is intended to compensate counties for the loss of property taxes on the State’s vast acreage of public land in Northern Minnesota. Northern counties are disproportionately dependent on PILT funding. when compared to other regions of the state.

MDA to set over 20,000 traps to survey for Spongy Moth

Traps will be set by survey staff now through July The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) will set approximately 20,000 traps this year looking for spongy moth ( Lymantria dispar), formally known as gypsy moth. The traps will be set throughout the eastern half of the state and in far northwestern Minnesota as part of a “western rotation.” This work is part of the MDA’s annual trapping survey program and is designed to protect Minnesota’s forests and urban areas from new infestations of spongy moth by detecting potential problem areas for future treatments.

Yellow House finds a new home

Tom Morse tmorse@ northhouse.org For almost a decade, North House has wrestled with a tough decision— the iconic Yellow house’s foundation was shifting in opposite directions, and the building used first as staff office and now as a school store was being ripped in half. Countless repairs to the roof had been made over the years, and the question became: how much money do you invest in a building that no longer fits your needs? And then, is there some way to give the building a second life? First, North House reached out to Hamilton Habitat and the Cook County HRA to see if the building might be useful in the effort to add more housing in the community, but both organizations were unable to take on a structure that would potentially require significant work.

Seth Jeff’s property is for sale

If you have $189,000 there are 40 acres of property for sale at 932 Pike Lake Road with a nice gravel road and some brush and trees cleared for a building site. It’s beautiful property.

Matters of Record

The Cook County News-Herald publishes Matters of Record to inform the public of arraignments and dispositions of criminal cases in which the punishment exceeds $150 and/or ten days in jail and/or includes one year of supervised adult probation. It is the Cook County News-Herald’s policy that this information contains a complete record. Requests for items to be withheld will not be granted.