Stories from Thursday, February 27, 2014

Since the closing of the Gingerbread House daycare in the final quarter of 2010, there has been a growing concern of the parents of the county. The problem that the town, and the county faces is the lack of certified child-care providers. To see what can be done to combat the problem the with the problem the Buena Vista County Services Early Childhood Center held a meeting on Tuesday night in the AEA building...

In just two months the building located at 720 Erie St. in Storm Lake has undergone a big change. As the new owners started to take over the building started to undergo a change. Walls were torn down and windows were replaced and repainted. The remodeling project took place over the next two months and towards the end of February, a new business was in the building, ready to open. The new business is Recess Fitness, which takes a new way to look at fitness...

It started three years ago with barley enough students to be able to pull a team together, but now it is bigger than some of the long-estliblashed and well funded team sports. The difference between some of the sports and the trap and skeet shooting team is that the skeet shooting and trapping team has to function completely on their own, despite the large number of students...