Gruver News

Yeah, it seems like a hassle, but 14 percent of eligible Emmet County voters turned out to vote in Tuesday's elections.

Few voters turned out in Preston, only 8.7 percent of the 713 registered voters in town, and some of those were confused about who to vote for.

Estherville voters elected long-time Mayor Lyle Hevern to another two-year term in Tuesday's 2009 city election.

The statistics are telling. Overweight trucks cost taxpayers money. Even legally overweight trucks can hammer and break up state, county and city roads.

A rash of crime hit Emmet County overnight as five businesses were burglarized in Gruver and Ringsted.

A rash of crime hit Emmet County overnight as five businesses were burglarized in Gruver and Ringsted.

Emmet County Sheriff Mike Martens reported the sheriff's office has been investigating several vandalisms, a theft and also burglary complaints over the last two weeks.

A less-than-familiar site could be seen in Estherville Tuesday afternoon when a Union Pacific passenger train took a round trip to Gruver.

Call it H1N1 or whatever you want, the term "swine flu" attributed to the strain of flu that started in Mexico and is now worldwide, still carriers the onerous connotation of "swine flu." While those in cities and, more particularly, some foreign countries, have balked from buying pork products as a result, most people in Iowa realize that pork is ...

The Wallingford Iowa Fire Department and the Estherville Iowa Fire Department hosted a training day and live house burn for area neighboring fire departments on April 25.

Two rural fires summoned fire departments in Emmet County Tuesday where 250 bales were ablaze, and in Clay County Monday where numerous hogs perished.