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Sioux Central players meet on the field Friday night in Sioux Rapids just before halftime against Emmetsburg. (Photo by Jake Kurtz)

Friday night football scores

Spencer 42, Storm Lake 18; Alta-Aurelia 26. Algona Garrigan 2; Newell-Fonda 41, AGWSR 6; Emmetsburg 27, Sioux Central 0

As COVID-19 rates rise, administrators say schools are not source

BY TOM CULLEN | The Storm Lake Times | Four weeks into a school year marred by a pandemic, Storm Lake school administrators and Buena Vista County Public Health believe none of the district’s positive coronavirus cases can be traced to its school buildings. Storm Lake Supt. Stacey Cole...

A tiny “Casey’s” breakfast pizza in front of The Worlds Largest Truckstop. Inset: Jessi Ruben.

Pharmacist by day, aspiring tiny chef by night

BY DOLORES CULLEN | THE STORM LAKE TIMES | You’ve heard of mini donuts and mini pizzas. Don’t mistake them for tiny food – a pancake the size of a penny, a breakfast pizza an inch across – made in a tiny kitchen and typically shared on YouTube. The trend was picked up...

Alta City Councilman Tom Lane delivers chicken and vegetables to Marta Herrera, one of his neighbors at Westview Mobile Home Park. TIMES photos by tom CULLEN

Tom Lane of Alta: Man on a mission

Alta city councilman donates organic garden bounty and more to community members | BY TOM CULLEN | THE STORM LAKE TIMES | Tom Lane’s known for being crotchety, but on Monday evening, even he admitted he had an “attitude problem.” He snapped multiple times at his wife,...

Lt. Patrick Diekman with the Yumvee. TIMES photos by DOLORES CULLEN

Storm Lake police deploy Yumvee to neighborhoods

| BY DOLORES CULLEN | THE STORM LAKE TIMES | The Storm Lake Police Department’s newest public outreach tool is a Humvee repurposed into an ice cream truck, and it’s called a – start licking your lips – “Yumvee.” In June, the department was awarded a...

Local News

09/18/2020 - 4:44pm

As COVID-19 rates rise, administrators say schools are not source

BY TOM CULLEN | The Storm Lake Times | Four weeks into a school year marred by a pandemic, Storm Lake school administrators and Buena Vista County Public Health believe none of the district’s positive coronavirus cases can be traced to its school...

SPECIAL ED DEFICIT GROWING IN SLCSD

BVU enrollment ticks up 2.5% during pandemic

State panel approves $100 million natural resources budget

Storm Lake man’s police brutality claim denied

Dave Jennett returns as Sac County Attorney

Sports

Sioux Central players meet on the field Friday night in Sioux Rapids just before halftime against Emmetsburg. (Photo by Jake Kurtz)

09/18/2020 - 9:58pm

Friday night football scores

Spencer 42, Storm Lake 18; Alta-Aurelia 26. Algona Garrigan 2; Newell-Fonda 41, AGWSR 6; Emmetsburg 27, Sioux Central 0

Storm Lake returns home to face arch rival Spencer

Newell-Fonda finds opponent after crazy week of slate activity

Alta-Aurelia begins district slate with Algona Garrigan

Sioux Central tackles unbeaten Emmetsburg

Ridge View’s game with No. 8 Logan-Magnolia canceled

Family & Friends

The candidates are, front row, L-R: Ellie Lago, Ella Larsen, Jake DeMey, Hunter Christiansen. Second row: Paige Roberts, Tanner Gerke. Back: Bailey Sievers, Gabe Sievers.

09/18/2020 - 10:13am

Mustangs ready for Homecoming

Newell-Fonda homecoming is set for next week with a full schedule planned. Special events include the pep rally and coronation at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 24 and the homecoming parade at 2:30 p.m. on Friday. The Mustangs play Kingsley-Pierson...

A time for everything

Entrepreneur

Turkey supper in Sioux Rapids

Pharmacist by day, aspiring tiny chef by night

Applications for BVRMC Auxiliary scholarships available

Opinion

09/18/2020 - 8:49am

Editorials: The ethanol waivers

President Trump may have addressed a fall 2020 political bomb in Iowa by ordering the EPA to reject waivers of ethanol blending requirements into gasoline. For two years, at least, the administration has sowed confusion among farmers, distillers and...

The college football dilemma

We should not just accept deaths like these

Farm policy

Editorials: Feenstra won’t debate Scholten

Check off the Apocalyptic boxes: Drought, pestilence, plague, famine

Obituaries

09/18/2020 - 8:44am

Doris Gutz

A memorial service for Doris Gutz will be held Sept. 19 at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Storm Lake. You are welcome to help celebrate her life.

Rev. Curtis H. Miller

Bradley Peterson

Cheryl Carlson

Virginia Freeman

Ronald Jacobson