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A community newspaper serving Browerville, MN and surrounding areas. USPS 067-560

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Volume 98; Number 7

www.bladepublishing.net

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WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT

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Relay for

Life

Public informational meeting todiscuss the future of historic

courthouse will be held August 17

Titera charged

n Brown death

Grandma Host, Roselind, was visited by her granddaughter, great granddaughter, and

great great granddaughter at the Central Todd County Care Center on July 22nd. Pictured

are: Front, Bob Host, Roselind Host holding Zooey Moeshl, and Sharon Host. Back, Lynsie

Moeschl and Donna Smith.

Roger Irsfeld, above,

accepted the Silver Level

Sponsor award on behalf of

the Browerville Lions at the

Todd County Relay for Life

on July 23rd.

Right, Curtis Bryniarski,

sang the National Anthem

for the event. Photos by Ben

Dreher.

Melissa J. Titera, Parkers

Prairie, appeared in Todd County

District Court twice withing a

seven day period. She had been

scheduled to appear in court onMonday, July 12, but failed to

appear.

On Friday, July 16, she

appeared in court on charges of

probation violation. She had pre-

viously been convicted for the

sale of narcotics in Wadena, and

was found guilty of violating the

terms of her probation.

Sentencing was scheduled for

August 9.

Titera appeared in court again

on Tuesday, July 20, on charges

of two counts of criminal vehicu-

lar homicide and DWI. An RU8

hearing was set for August 2.

Titera, in custody, is beingcharged in connection with the

death of Scott Brown, rural Long

Prairie, in a three vehicle acci-

dent on US Hwy 71, south of

Eagle Bend that occurred on the

afternoon of Thursday, July 15.

y Tim King

The first public informational

meeting to discuss the future of

odd County's historic court-

ouse will be held Tuesday

vening August 17 at 6:30 p.m.

t the Todd County Government

enter in downtown Long

rairie.

The decision to hold the meet-ng earlier than originally

lanned was made at the Todd

ounty Commissioners meeting

uesday July 20 following dis-

ussion by the commissioners

bout what the November ballot

uestion should be regarding the

istoric courthouse. The commis-

oners had planned to make a

ecision on the ballot question

anguage at their July 20 meet-

ng, however, the commissioners

ecided to listen to public input

t the August 17 meeting before

eciding on the wording of the

allot question. Commissioners

ill decide on the wording fol-wing the public discussion. The

ording of the question must be

ecided no later than August 20.

fter August 20, the ballots will

e readied for printing.

At the July 20 meeting, com-

missioners were told the historic

courthouse was sound enough to

last for at least another 100

years. They were also presented

with a plan to create a space in

the historic courthouse for

numerous county departments

that are now housed on Central

Avenue in Long Prairie, as wellas other locations in Long

Prairie and Browerville. Under

the plan the Auditor and

Treasurer, Assessor, Recorder,

GIS, Planning and Zoning,

Public Works, Soil and Water,

and Solid Waste would be com-

bined into an umbrella organiza-

tion called Tax and Land

Services. The new organization

would be housed in the first two

floors of the remodeled historic

courthouse. The county board

room and county administrative

offices would be housed in the

third floor of the building. The

plan for use of the building andlongevity estimates were made

by Contegrity Group and

Collaborative Design Group.

Both are consulting companies

hired by Todd County to study

options for the courthouse.

Consultants estimated the

remodeling will cost $4.39 mil-

lion. Merely demolishing the his-

toric court house would cost

$350,000, according to the con-

sultants. An additional $50,000

would be needed to relocate the

911 emergency telephone system

now housed in the courthouse."If we demolish the court

house we'll have spent a lot of

money and accomplished noth-

ing for county taxpayers,"

Commissioner Ruda said.

Building a new facility on the

site of the demolished court-

house would cost about the same

as remodeling the old court-

house. Demolition and relocating

the 911 system would cost at

least an additional $400,000.

Continued on page 16

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Melissa Titera has been

harged in Todd County

istrict Court with two

ounts of criminal vehicular

omicide. Todd County Court

hoto.

Hosts celebrate five generations