Stories from Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Over the weekend Storm Lake High School competed in Festival Disney in Orlando, Florida. On Saturday, March 22 their performances earned them Best in Class and Grand Champion Golden Mickey award in choir. The Golden Mickey is the top award a group can receive. ...

A bait shop in Linn Grove stands surrounded by Buena Vista County Conservation land. When the shop came up for sale the Conservation Board decided it could be a "base of operations" and "support campers" according to Director Nate Young. The board plans on building a campground near the dam where the shop is located...

"What we have done as a country is not sustainable long term"

Three Storm Lake athletes were able to place in the medals in a state wide competition that was held earlier this month. On March 15, Jessica N.-H, Justina A. and Rebekah all placed in their respective events at the Iowa State Special Olympics competition that was held on the campus of the University of Iowa at Iowa City...

In the opening meet of the year for Ridge View they took home numerous places including a one second place finish and a handful of third place finishes. Saturday showed the team their strength in the numerous relay events where they were able to take home five third place finishes...

After the second track meet of the year, the Storm Lake track team has started to show improvement over their last meet. Even though the team has not been at full strength because of commitments to other school related activities, including a music department trip to Walt Disney World...

With the second track meet of the season under their belt the Storm Lake boy's team were able to come home on Friday night with new personal records and improvement in their events from earlier last week. Dylan Cavenaugh was able to best his personal best time with a record time of 5:25 n the 1600 meters. His time was good enough for 16th out of the 31 runners that had a time recorded...

As the high school renovation project continues on, there have been a few discoveries that will be fixed as the renovation project continues to move forward. In the hallways of the High School are a series of skylights that were installed when the high school was originally built. Through the course of the renovation construction the construction crews discovered that the skylights had asbestos installed around the edges of the skylights...

After months of rehabilitation, two Red Tailed Hawks were released in the Sioux Rapids park on Saturday afternoon. The hawks were released during a presentation by the SOAR (Saving Our Avian Resources) group with Kay Neumann over seeing the release of the two hawks Saturday...