BROADBAND GRANTS AWARDED
Governor Tim Walz announced that the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) will award grants totaling $20,645,425 to 39 projects in the sixth year of the Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant program. State grant dollars are matched by $33,695,279 in local funds, for a total investment in broadband infrastructure of $54,340,704.
“The pandemic this past year has made it crystal clear that fast, reliable broadband access is critical for people living in Greater Minnesota – for everything from education and health care to business operations and telecommuting,” said Governor Walz. “These grants continue this vitally important work toward our goal of ensuring that every Minnesotan has high-speed internet access by 2022.”
Credit SD Game Fish & Parks
In 2014, forty non-Indian owners of cabins and other structures at Pickerel Lake challenged Day County s legal ability to impose property taxes. The structures in question are located on tribal land held in trust.
When a Fifth Circuit judge ruled for the county, the property owners appealed.
The South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld the lower court and ruled in favor of Day County.
Victoria Wicks reports on this opinion for SDPB.
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Author publishes book about Pickerel Lake monster fish
The Park Rapids area, as remembered by a writer who spent part of his childhood here, is featured in a trilogy of novels written from a boy s point of view. 10:00 am, Dec. 30, 2020 ×
Park Rapids native Gary Blackburn, who now lives in California, is releasing Pickerel Lake 1: Dark Water Secret, the first novel in a trilogy inspired by his childhood experiences in the Emmaville area. (Submitted photos)
Park Rapids native Gary Blackburn is publishing a novel inspired by his childhood experiences in Lake Emma Township.
Titled “Pickerel Lake 1: Deep Water Secrets,” the book is the first installment of a trilogy whose other titles are “Pickerel Lake 2: Secrets Revealed” and “Pickerel Lake 3: Resolution.”