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The City of Crookston has announced that the last pickup services for garbage and recycling will be July 11. Read the announcement below to find out what to do with your garbage and recycling after that date. With the rollout of the Waste Management garbage & recycling pickup services, the last day for yellow garbage […]
Polk County Transfer Station is making a few operational changes in the wake of COVID-19 executive orders mandated by the governor. The goal of the changes is to limit exposure by social distancing measures and limiting social interactions. The staff is asking the public to only bring out wastes that are essential to get rid
Polk County has awarded two bids to demolish former homes in the county. The first demolition is in McIntosh awarded to Hagen Construction & Trucking, Inc from Fosston for $6,000. The second property is in rural Erskine and includes two homes each with wells and septic systems, along with three outbuildings. That bid was awarded
Polk County received an overall positive report from the Minnesota State Auditor’s Office for their year-end report ending December 31, 2018. Polk County Administrator Chuck Whiting the county is in a good position. “A lot of it is checking out processes and making sure everything is for what is the financial summary of the county,”
Polk County Environmental Services has been working through several facility projects during the last couple of years from Crookston to Fosston. They recently closed the Fosston Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) project including final payment, while the Transfer Station project in Crookston remains open after substantial delays in Crookston. Environmental Services Administrator Jon Steiner said there
Polk County has had issues with the scale portion of their addition to the Fosston incinerator site since the work was done in 2017-2018. Polk County Environmental Services Administrator Jon Steiner explains, “We’ve had some issues with the concrete out in the lot for the approaches to the scale that we’ve tried to work with
