Stories from Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Buena Vista University has risen to the seventh best value school among Midwest regional colleges in U.S. News & World Report's 2019 Best Colleges rankings, soaring eight spots from last year. Buena Vista University has risen to the seventh best value school among Midwest regional colleges in U.S. News & World Report's 2019 Best Colleges rankings, soaring eight spots from last year...

Ten Education for Service (EFS) and 15 S-STEM (Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) scholars hit the ground running upon their August arrival on campus as freshmen. The two groups are pioneering new, large-scale scholarship programs at Buena Vista University (BVU)...

December 5, 1945 - September 2018

Gerald and Barbara Thompson, Eileen Bradford, Jean Cavanaugh.

A Storm Lake teenager has been charged with two counts of assault and criminal mischief after assaulting his mother and arming himself with a knife. Storm Lake Police were called to an apartment on Seneca Street Monday evening on a report of a domestic disturbance in progress...

Multi-platinum selling and Grammy winning group Casting Crowns will play the Orpheum in Sioux City on Thursday, October 4 with special guest I AM THEY. Showtime is 7 p.m. Tickets are available now, stating at $25. See orpheumlive.com. Prolific CCM band Casting Crowns has achieved sales milestones including one RIAA 2x multi-Platinum album, four RIAA Platinum albums, two RIAA Platinum DVDs, seven RIAA Gold albums, four Gold DVDs, one RIAA Platinum certified single and five RIAA Gold certified digital singles. ...

Cherokee Community Theatre continues its 60th anniversary season as practice begins for an ambitious production of M*A*S*H. Auditions were held in late August. Directors Nikki Schubert and Becky Lickiss are planning for a cast of 30. Show dates for this production are November 1-4...

Storm Lake St. Mary's High School students recently attended the Precision Ag and Animal Science Days hosted by Iowa State Extension in Sutherland. Several businesses and Iowa State University instructors were hands-on with the students throughout the day...

Buena Vista Regional Medical Center has been awarded a 2018 Top Workplaces honor by The Des Moines Register. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by research partner Energage, LLC (formerly WorkplaceDynamics), a leading provider of technology-based employee engagement tools. The anonymous survey measures several aspects of workplace culture, including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few...

A security guard at the newly-opened Oasis Nigh Club has been arrested for Disorderly Conduct in a skirmish with a patron Sunday morning. Police who were conducting a routine bar check at the club at around 2 a.m. saw an altercation in the parking lot, with a security employee standing straddled over a customer who was on the ground, striking the man repeatedly. As police were taking the guard, Yosmany Yera Cobas, 31, into custody, the victim o the beating got up and fled on foot...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley issued the following statement regarding the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. "Anyone who comes forward as Dr. Ford has deserves to be heard, so I will continue working on a way to hear her out in an appropriate, precedented and respectful manner...

After escaping from a house fire in the 800 block of Ontario Street in Storm Lake Saturday afternoon, a local men reportedly broke away from officers and led them on a five-block chase before he was tackled and arrested. Police and fire officials responded to a house fire report shortly before 3 p.m. ...

Storm Lake Police are asking for the community's help in locating a vehicle and occupants in a harassment incident Monday afternoon that involved a young girl. The girl was walking near the intersection of East 10th Street and Seneca Street when a vehicle approached. The occupant allegedly asked the girl to get into the vehicle to go to the male occupant's residence. After the girl refused, the vehicle was last seen leaving the area west on 10th Street...

The Storm Lake City Council has paved the way for two housing projects to get off the ground in the city. A first reading was unanimously passed to change the zoning from residential R2 to R4 - residential high density - for a project on 10th Street near the 10th Street Townhouse development. ...

The Global Fellows program has been terminated at Buena Vista University. The program was cut after the unexpected resignation of Dr. Melinda Coogan, who had been "the driving force" behind the program in recent years, BVU spokesperson Rick Pallister said. Coogan accepted a position as a lecturer at Baylor University in Texas. A second faulty member who was to accompany the group this year, Miranda Polluck, also recently left BVU to accept a position at Peru State College in Nebraska...

In July 2017, two environmental activists came forward claiming responsibility for vandalism, arson and destruction in the Iowa counties that the Dakota Access Pipeline cuts through. But over a year since that statement was given and nearly two years since they claim their sabotage activism began, charges against them have yet to be filed...