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Clearing the way: DNR improves roads to Minnesota’s outdoors

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has completed more than a dozen projects in recent years to improve state forest roads, replace culverts and bridges, and make...

Fergus Falls veterans home earns customer experience award eight...

The Minnesota Veterans Homes – Fergus Falls has received the Customer Experience Award for the eighth straight year, recognizing its high quality of care for veterans. The...

Largemouth bass like this one are abundant in most Otter Tail County lakes, making them a reliable catch for anglers during the 2026 fishing season.

Your ultimate fishing opener cheat sheet: What a DNR biologist...

With the fishing opener only weeks away, many avid anglers are already preparing their gear and contemplating which species and lake(s) they should...

How Minnesota's deer hunters are fighting hunger

Minnesota hunters donated nearly 14,000 pounds of venison to food banks, food shelves, and feeding programs in 2025, an amount that exceeded 2024...

MnDOT wants student artwork to help make school routes safer...

Minnesota students have a chance to create artwork that could be seen by thousands of people walking and biking to school. The Minnesota Safe Routes to School program is...

Chris Schuelke, center, accepts a plaque honoring his 37 years of service as executive director of the Otter Tail County Historical Society. County commissioners Wayne Johnson of Pelican Rapids, Sean Sullivan of Fergus Falls, Bob Lahman of Parkers Prairie, and Dan Bucholz of Perham presented the award on March 24.

"Voice of Otter Tail County history" retires after nearly four decades

Chris Schuelke, retiring executive director of the Otter Tail County Historical Society (county museum), was honored by the county board of...

Volunteers operated the serving line during the Lenten Fish Fry Friday evening, March 27, at St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Henning.

Volunteers keep fish fries sizzling through Lent season

Volunteers step forward each year for fish fries during Lent at several churches in Otter Tail County. Such was the case at St. Edward’s Catholic...

County gets $7.3M to turn trash ash into stronger roads

On March 10, county commissioners voted unanimously to support a state bonding request of up to $7.3 million. The funding, through the Capital Assistance Program (CAP),...

Safe eggs head to trash while hungry Minnesotans go without—unless...

A Minnesota lawmaker is pushing to let food shelves give away eggs that have passed their quality assurance dates, arguing that safe, nutritious food is being thrown away...

Honest
Abe reads
The Press
—thanks to local actor

Reading the Press Afar

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was an avid reader of newspapers—including the Pelican Rapids Press!Abe, portrayed by Chuck Johnson at the Pelican...

Men’s chorus takes audiences to heaven’s gates with musical comedy

Heart O’ Lakes Harmony, a local men’s singing group, will present its annual show “What a Wonderful World” at two locations. The performance takes place Saturday, April 11,...

Pelican firefighters defend lakes, homes, farms with market values...

Pelican Lake properties alone tally about $1.5 billion More than $3 billion in land and property value is under the protection of the Pelican Rapids Volunteer Fire...

Barn fire near Dent contained with no injuries

Firefighters from three departments extinguished a barn fire near Dent, Minnesota, on Saturday evening that caused moderate damage but resulted in no injuries or animal...

Otter Tail County Sheriff Barry Fitzgibbons participated in one of his final township association gatherings, as he will be retiring at the end of 2026.

Lawman, historian to bid farewell: Sheriff Fitzgibbons to retire at...

Two of Otter Tail County’s most familiar public servants will be retiring this year: One a lawman, and one a historian who was a part of county...

Shows eagle egg in nest PHOTOS COURTESY MN DNR

Eaglet makes spotlight on DNR EagleCam

A newly hatched bald eagle chick was spotted Thursday, March 26, in a nest monitored by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ EagleCam,...

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