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Featured Grandstand Entertainment Announced For Second Weekend Of This Year’s Clay County Fair
April 7, 2026
(Spencer)– All-Star Monster Trucks, Outlaw Truck and Tractor Pull and Figure 8 races will be the featured grandstand entertainment for the second weekend of this year’s Clay County Fair. All-Star Monster Trucks will put on two shows Saturday, September 19th, with the Outlaw Truck and Tractor Pull performing under the lights that same evening. Figure […]
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Spencer Awarded Water Trails Grant
April 7, 2026
(Spencer)– The city of Spencer has been awarded a grant through the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and its state water trails program. Bob Fullhart is the head of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department… “This will improve our accesses out at Stolley’s and then also what we call the lookout area which is right […]
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Live Healthy Iowa Kids Track Meet To Be Held In Spirit Lake
April 7, 2026
All area students in 1st through 6th grade who are the ages of 7 to 12 are invited to participate in the Live Healthy Iowa Kids Track Championships. Krista Smith, the Executive Director of the Spirit Lake Chamber of Commerce, discusses the event… “So this is an event that takes place all over the state. […]
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Estherville City Council Votes To Proceed With Joint Facility For Police & Fire Departments
April 7, 2026
(Estherville)– The Estherville City Council voted Monday evening to proceed with a proposal to house the city’s police and fire departments in one facility. As we reported previously, the city council recently finalized the purchase of a building on Murray Road to relocate the fire department. A space study that has since been done on […]
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Spencer Retail Kickstarter Program Awards Loan
April 6, 2026
(Spencer)– The Spencer Retail Kickstarter Committee has awarded a loan to the Bearded Dog Taproom, LLC to purchase what formerly was known as The Iowa Project Brewing Company building at 316 Grand Avenue in Spencer. A press release doesn’t mention a dollar amount of the loan. The Retail Kickstarter program is a partnership between the […]
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Special Enforcement Of Iowa’s Hands-Free Law Underway Now Through April 10th
April 6, 2026
(Spirit Lake)– A special traffic enforcement campaign gets underway today (Mon.) statewide in Iowa and will run through April 10th. Trooper Kevin Krull of the Iowa State Patrol says it will focus on the state’s hands-free law… “We started that campaign of actually stopping cars with warnings for the first six months and that started […]
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The First Of Two Elections To Fill Vacancies On Spencer City Council Is Coming Up Tuesday (April 7th)
April 6, 2026
(Spencer)– A special election will be held tomorrow (Tues.) in Spencer to decide who will fill the ward 4 seat on the city council. The city council previously appointed Duane Bates to fill the vacancy, however a petition was filed calling for Tuesday’s special election. One other person, James Vermeer, is running for the seat. […]
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Estherville City Council To Consider Integrating Police, Fire Departments Into One Facility
April 6, 2026
(Estherville)– The Estherville City Council this (Mon.) evening will consider a proposal for a joint public safety facility that would house the city’s fire and police departments. The city council in March finalized the purchase of a facility at 3303 Murray Road as a new location for the fire department. In a memo to council […]
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