Stories from Wednesday, March 19, 2014

STORM LAKE - Due to a High School band trip in Florida, both the Storm Lake boys and girls track teams were short handed for the Lakes Conference Indoor Championships Tuesday night. The girl's track team only had six girls compete in the meet, while the boys only had 15 athletes compete. For the athletes that did participate in the meet Tuesday night, there were two individuals that stood out for the Tornadoes...

The Sioux Central girls track team is returning ten seniors from last year's team that finished third at the Twin Lakes Conference track meet. The Conference track meet was stopped last year with five events still to be ran after a long rain delay. There was no date that worked with all the schools to make the remaining events up so they cancelled it all together...

New track coach Michael Ivey takes over the reigns for the St. Mary's boys and girls track teams this year. The panthers finished fourth at conference last year and had a 4-8 meet record on the season, but return a handful of atheltes from the teams last year...

The Alta-Aurelia girl's track team that had no seniors last year, and finished 8th in the Twin Lakes Conference, looks to achieve even higher personal goals this year.The Warriors will be led by two seniors this year, Paige Sivinski and Rachel Arnts...

The Ridge View Raptors boys are coming off a very successful 2013 year as they won three team meets last year, and had one runner up finish. They placed third in the Western Valley Conference Meet and fourth in the District meet. The Raptors placed in two events at the State Meet and were just shy of placing in two other events...

A year after losing the Soccer State Championship to Cedar Rapids Xavier, the Storm Lake boys soccer team looks to make it back to the play-offs again. Storm Lake finished the season 15-2 and 10-1 in Conference play. The Tornadoes defeated Mount Pleasant in the quarter-finals last year 3-1 then saw Waverly-Shell Rock in the semi's and defeated them 1-0 in double overtime before losing to Ceder Rapids in the title game...

The Iowa Newspaper Association announced their 2014 All-State Boys Basketball teams, and four area athletes find their names on the lists. Wyatt Lohaus of Iowa City West was named Mr. Basketball, Lohaus a 6-foot-2 senior guard and University of Northern Iowa signee. ...

This year Alta-Aurelia Community High School will present two different spring plays written by Donald Payton between Saturday and Monday, March 22-24. Leading off on March 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Roxy Theater will be Nearly Beloved, a farce about a "perfect" daughter with a wild imagination writing a diary that leads to havoc...

When city officials were going through the yearly budget process they were "reminded" they had set aside $60,000 for a skate park and $30,000 for turning Santa's Castle ADEA accessible. The money was meant to be a match for money that was raised or received from a grant due to the two entities, the Skate Park or Santa's Castle, efforts...

Major Doug Simons with the Buena Vista County Sheriff's Department reported there was 0 theft and 0 burglaries during the month of February in Alta at a recent meeting. There was a reported 343 patrol hours during the month of February. Simons called it a "very quiet month" for the community...

There will be a Kindergarten and Transitional Kindergarten Informational meeting for all parents of students entering Kindergarten and Transitional Kindergarten on Tuesday, March 25, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Alta Elementary School. To be eligible for Kindergarten or Jr. ...

In 1995 there wasn't enough homes in Alta to meet demands, this spurred owner of West Links Housing Development Paul Koth to turn a cornfield into lots for houses, 21 lots to be exact. Recently, another housing shortage has driven him to make arrangements to remove the golf course that was part of the development and replace the area with lots for 10 new homes...

First Team: Reed Tellinghuisen (SR) - East Sac County Huson Spedding (SR) - Manson-NW Webster Jake Petzenhauser (SR) - South Central Calhoun Tyler Stumbo (JR) - Laurens-Marathon Dalton Anderson (SR) - Newell-Fonda Brady Bohe (SR) - Newell-Fonda Brady Dicks (JR) - Newell-Fonda...

First Team Reed Tellinghuisen (SR) - East Sac County Huson Spedding (SR) - Manson-NW Webster Jake Petzenhauser (SR) - South Central Calhoun Tyler Stumbo (JR) - Laurens-Marathon Dalton Anderson (SR) - Newell-Fonda Brady Bohe (SR) - Newell-Fonda Brady Dicks (JR) - Newell-Fonda...