By Tom Hintgen Otter Tail County Correspondent In 2024 the county board of commissioners held public hearings related to regulations of vacation home rentals. An ordinance was developed and in recent months it became necessary to adopt a second ordinance. Close to 90 percent of the 182 rental properties as of May 31, 2025, licensed as lodging establishments,… Read More

By Chad Koenen Publisher Henning School alumni will be taking a trip down memory lane on Saturday, June 21 for the first all-school reunion in nearly a decade. The all-school reunion committee has recently put the finishing touches on the one-day celebration that will include everything from live music, breakfast, a silent auction and a parade to… Read More

Contributed photo Logan Kostelecky, Teigan Bjerke and Janie Lhotak were named to the Quad County All-Conference golf team earlier this season. Kostelecky and Lhotak both qualified for the Class A state golf meet that will be held next week in Becker, Minn. For more information, check out page 9. 

Photo by Chad Koenen Henning Police Chief Mike Helle presented Joan Fosse with a hanging basket on behalf of the City of Henning for her years of service to the community. Fosse has volunteered her time to plant, water and weed the flowers at city park for approximately 20 years. She was forced to retire from… Read More

By Chad Koenen Publisher A tractor appears to be a complete loss, but no one was injured in a tractor fire in Nidaros Township on Thursday night. At 7:49 p.m. on Thursday night, the Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a tractor on fire in the 18000 block of Norwegian Road in Nidaros Township…. Read More

An error was noted in May 20 issue of the Citizen’s Advocate. In an article entitled Mills and Strege selected for all-state choir, it was stated Cade Strege and David Mills were the first two members of the Henning School choir to be chosen to participate in all-state choir. However, several former students under the direction… Read More

Schermerhorn faces three felony charges By Chad Koenen Publisher Less-than one week after receiving his high school diploma, a local teenager is dead following a crash in Bluffton Township on Tuesday night (May 27).  Blake Unger, age 18, was killed in an accident near the intersection of 370th St and 640th Ave, northwest of Wadena at around… Read More

By Chad Koenen Publisher Music, hot dogs, popcorn and Elvis Presley—oh my! One of the more popular summertime activities in the Ottertail region will once again be making a return to the Ottertail Community Park next week. The summer concert series is back for its 10th season and will once again feature a mixture of musical… Read More

By Tom Hintgen Otter Tail County Correspondent On Memorial Day weekend this writer visited the gravesite of Tom Hintgen’s Great-Uncle John McAuliffe at Holy Cross Cemetery in north Fargo. He served his country in the Spanish-American War in 1898 and 1899. To family members he is a hero, and there’s another story that makes him twice a hero…. Read More

Photos by Dani Koenen Under the direction of science teachers Scott Hart and Dana Damm, the Henning eighth grade students set off plastic rockets on the football field near the end of the school year. The annual rocket launching event is held each spring with students in eighth grade science. The students create the rockets out… Read More