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Voters Tuesday defeated the $29 million Storm Lake Early Childhood Center proposal. Two measures were necessary to fund the construction. Measure A had 56.8% approval and measure B 55.2%, with 60 percent "yes" votes needed on both for the project to proceed...

Longtime Storm Lake Chief of Police and Public Safety Director Mark Prosser has submitted plans for his resignation to the city, “with much emotion and sadness.” He plans to retire effective at the end of 2019, giving city officials a year to select a replacement and prepare for a smooth transition...

With hundreds of known archaeological sites along the banks of the Little Sioux River, northwestern Iowa is a treasure for archaeology—a past of intrinsic value that many modern locals have yet to discover. “If you just go into a museum and see a couple rocks and don’t know what you’re looking at, that’s all they are,” said Megan Stroh, an archaeologist for Sanford Museum in Cherokee. “A plate is just a plate without a backstory.”...

As it expands into Storm Lake from Alta, child care provider Ready, Set, GROW! has been named as one of the recipients of the Iowa Women’s Foundation’s 2019 Child Care Solutions Fund Grant. The $6,000 endowment, which will be delivered to RSG in two installments over 2019, comes just in time as the organization moves into Storm Lake to deliver desperately needed childcare spots...

Upper Des Moines Opportunity reported increased food pantry usage this year, with a slight uptick in the number of families served in Buena Vista county--something that may be indicative of a deeper root cause. Executive Director Jamey Whitney told supervisors Tuesday with a funding request that increases in food pantry and housing assistance usage continue to surprise UDMO. Despite a booming economy, some families may be left behind...

Storm Lake has planned a total capital budget of just over $5 million in expenditures for fiscal 2019-20, bolstered by nearly $1.5 million in anticipated federal and state grants. The spending plan was billed as “a blueprint for sustaining and improving city infrastructure,” but one council member felt the preliminary plan fell short of meeting goals the council had set earlier, particularly one to improve public perception of the community...

Voters Tuesday defeated the $29 million Storm Lake Early Childhood Center proposal. Two measures were necessary to fund the construction. Measure A had 56.8% approval and measure B 55.2%, with 60 percent “yes” votes needed on both for the project to proceed...

By ELIJAH DECIOUS Pilot-Tribune Staff Storm Lake resident Noe Casco has been sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of 22 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, all aggravated misdemeanors. Judge Andrew Smith handed the sentence down, as recommended by prosecuting Assistant County Attorney Paul Allen...

Storm Lake Police were called to the scene of a crashed, abandoned car in the roadway on East 4th Street late Saturday night, the driver’s seat soaked with blood. It didn’t take long to track down the driver, as shortly after that, the sheriff’s department a short distance away notified police that a man with fresh facial injuries was there trying to bond out an inmate...

About 400 people have already cast absentee ballots in a $29 million school bond election that if successful, would build a two-phase preschool, kindergarten and first grade complex off 90th Avenue on the west edge of Storm Lake. The early voting included about 250 votes cast during two early voting satellites, held Nov. 27 at the high school and Dec. 4 at the elementary, coinciding with school concerts...