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By DANA LARSEN Pilot-Tribune Editor Potential project aplenty await the Storm Lake City Council’s attention as it begins the process of capital improvement planning. Among them are recreation projects like a competition swimming pool, a proposed recreation center, a trail system to the marina, a dog park and new sports fields. ...

The Iowa Area Development Group (IADG), on behalf of Iowa’s rural electric cooperatives, municipal utilities, and independent telecommunication companies, honored eight distinguished Iowa companies with the Iowa Venture Award at a luncheon held in conjunction with the Iowa Association of Electric Cooperatives’ annual meeting...

Former Storm Lake woman Justine Miller remains a missing person this week. Miller, 36, went missing November 19, and was last seen in Lincoln, Nebraska according to the Nebraska State Patrol. Lincoln police say Miller had been most recently been staying at the People’s City Mission in Lincoln...

Vision Care Associates in Storm Lake hosted a Storm Lake United Business After Hours event this week, announcing the addition of a sunglasses line by Maui Jim. The styling event featured a styling specialist from the Hawaii-based manufacturer. The representative discussed sunglasses technology, noting that color enhancement and glare prevention are a large part of the appeal of the newest lenses. ...

Joshua M. Krayenhagen, 36, of Storm Lake, has pled guilty of criminal impersonation and resisting arrest for an incident on July 26, 2018 in North Platte, Nebraska. A habitual criminal charge was dropped in the plea agreement, as well as three charges he had faced in another case...

To date, 154 families and individuals have been “adopted,” and 45 are waiting to be chosen in the annual Adopt-A-Family for Christmas program. The Pilot-Tribune and Upper Des Moines Opportunity co-sponsor the program each year, matching generous individuals, families, businesses, clubs, classrooms and church groups with needy local families to provide the Christmas experience they might otherwise not have. ...

A teenage driver led police on a brief high-speed chase in Storm Lake Friday night, ending in three being taken into custody. An officer on patrol shortly before 10 p.m. observed a car traveling over 80 miles per hour in a 50 m.p.h. zone near Frank Starr Park on Highway 71...

The Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Corporation is asking Buena Vista County and its other member counties to step up their financial contribution as it launches a new five-year initiative called Partnership, Progress, Prosperity. The organization’s current four-year strategic plan comes to a close at the end of the year. ...

The two most famous turkeys in Iowa are Storm Lake natives. The birds that Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds pardoned in the recent longstanding tradition ceremony at Terrace Hill - were raised at the Tyson Ponderosa farm at Storm Lake, Iowa. Eric Messenbrink, farm manager for the operation, raised and groomed Benjamin and Franklin for this special event...

The Arnolds Park City Council met in special session Nov. 20 to discuss a potential purchase of the Okoboji Middle School building. Council member John Adams said he had been approached by a handful of residents with the idea. The property’s next owners will have to emerge from a public bidding process — a Nov. ...