Estherville News

The first of the time Trial Series was held on Tuesday, May 22. Races are held west of Estherville on County Road A24 with and out and back course.

ESTHERVILLE?- Funeral services for Hermina White, 91, of Estherville will be held at 2 p.m., Tuesday,?May 29, 2012 at the First Presbyterian Church in Estherville with Pastor Lynn Elrod officiating.

Funeral services for Maurice Larson, 87, of Estherville will be held 10:30 a.m., Friday, May 25, 2012 at the First Presbyterian Church in Estherville with Pastor Doug Burton officiating.

Following his education, Oscar served in World War II with the United States Army in the Alaskan Defense Command.

The City of Estherville will conduct a city-wide clean up of most bulky items for residential customers during the week of June 4 at no charge.

Funeral services for Charles Beck, 81, of Estherville will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 21, 2012, at First Christian Church in Estherville with Pastor Doug Burton officiating.

State Senate President Jack Kibbie was a new member of that legislative body in 1965 when he joined forces with former Gov.

The Iowa Lakes Community College Board of Trustees approved a $7 hike in the hourly tuition rate at its monthly meeting Tuesday in Spirit Lake.

A public hearing will be held on May 31 at 1:30 p.m. at the SWCD office, in the USDA Building located at 2109 Murray Road in Estherville on the question of the adopting of proposed amended soil loss limit regulations for the lands in Emmet County Soil and Water Conservation District.

The second annual Team Amy Run attracted over 200 participants Saturday morning.

Funeral services for Ernest Baedke, 85, of Terril will be held 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 15, 2012, at Henry-Olson Funeral Chapel in Estherville with Pastor David Doellinger officiating.

RINGSTED?- As the clock ticks down toward a deadline for selling the Ringsted School building - or have it demolished - an eleventh-hour group asked the Ringsted School Building Committee Thursday night to give it a chance to take over the building.

The resolution the Estherville City Council passed Monday opposing siting a hog confinement 1.4 miles north of the city was fair and in the best interest of all of Emmet County.

A Spirit Lake man is arrested on kidnapping and sex abuse charges Thursday. After investigation Spirit Lake Police allege that 43-year-old Eduardo Artimo Rodriguez Lopez sexually assaulted a minor child.

These days, employers face more of a dilemna than ever before when it comes to making sure their new hires are healthy enough to go on the job.

Musical artists from throughout Emmet County are featured on a new CD, Christmas for the Cure, now on sale.

Thanks to the generosity of several Estherville business and organizations, ELC will have lights on the Iowa Lakes Community College Softball Field this summer.

Ida Grove students soak up the sun while helping their classmates. The 18th Annual Whitney Thompson Hike-Bike-A-Thon got more than 660 kids on the trail.

There were plenty of onlookers Monday when the Nash Center building was moved from its former location next to the Duhigg Center at Ninth Street and Central Avenue in Estherville.

If Emmet County paid half the cost for upgrading a Class B road to A to serve a hog confinement - a precedent the county set earlier - it could cost rural taxpayers over $50,000. That's according to an estimate by county engineer Roger Patocka who provided figures to the Emmet Count Board of Supervisors Tuesday showing a preliminary estimate of ... (more)