OTTER TAIL LAKE

Sheriff’s Office responds to fatal boat crash on Otter Tail Lake

It happened Saturday before 3:30 p.m.

August 24, 2020

Alison Voorhees,

OTTER TAIL COUNTY, Minn. — The Otter Tail County Sheriff’s Office responded to a fatal boat crash Saturday afternoon. The call came just before 3:30 p.m.. Authorities say 52-year-old Neil Baker of Elysian, MN, had returned to his dock on Otter Tail Lake. Several family members got out of the boat, but Baker and his wife remained in the boat…

Pickup Goes Through Ice On An Outlet of Otter Tail Lake

The sheriff's office says the man was not familiar with the area

January 13, 2019

TJ Nelson,

OTTER TAIL COUNTY, MN — No one was hurt when a pickup went through the ice on an outlet of Otter Tail Lake Saturday morning. The sheriff’s office got a call around 6 a.m. from 26-year-old Grant Hamrick of Mounds. Hamrick was not familiar with the area and had been traveling across the lake before traveling too close to an outlet…