Emmetsburg News

" POET announced today that cost reductions achieved over the past year of operating their cellulosic ethanol pilot plant have exceeded expectations in their drive to commercialize the process.

The Board of Trustees of Iowa Lakes Community College learned all the ways in which the Institutional Advancement office aids the college in fund raising and improved recognition in the eyes of the public at their meeting Nov.

Ask and you shall receive. One Emmetsburg High School instructor and her class are benefitting from the generous natures of individuals from across the United States.

The annual Emmetsburg Community Thanksgiving Service will be held Sunday, Nov. 22, at 7 p.m. at Holy Family Parish, 201 South Broadway.

Poet LLC, the nation's top ethanol producer, says it is has reduced its cellulosic ethanol production cost during the past year from $4.13 per gallon to $2.35 per gallon.

Emmetsburg Main Street Community Theater celebrated the completion of its 32nd year with the annual Board of Directors meeting on Nov.

Skyjack Manufacturing, Inc. in Emmetsburg, has been certified by the U.S. Department of Labor for retraining benefits under the Trade Act of 2009 .

Advance tickets are now available for the Honor Flight Benefit banquet and auction this Saturday.

Veterans Day honors American service members, past and present. The day was first known as Armistice Day, when on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month the armistice was signed which ended World War I. In the mid 1950s, following World war II and the Korean War, the day of observance became known as Veterans Day.

A two-year long investigation into a series of fires at vacant farmsteads in Palo Alto County has culminated with charges against three Emmetsburg residents.

Lt. Jared Gledhill will be guest speaker at the Veterans Day program Wednesday, Nov.

Three northwest Iowa teenagers face arson charges in a series of fires at abandoned farms in the last two years.

A trio of Emmetsburg teens face arson charges in connection with a number of fires set at vacant farm sites over the past couple of years.

It wasn't a call to arms as much as it was a wake-up call - " a call given by retired Four-Star General Wesley Clark to a crowd of over 200 last Tuesday at the POET Cob Harvest Field Day in Emmetsburg.

I wasn't the only one shooting video at the POET Project LIBERTY Field Day in Emmetsburg, IA.

The accomplishments of Palo Alto County 4-H members in the past year, as well as recognition of their leaders and other volunteers were feted last Sunday evening at the 4-H Leaders Appreciation and Awards Banquet.

Solutions to the challenge of harvesting cobs were on display at Emmetsburg Tuesday.

FORT?DODGE - For Emmetsburg's Rachael Moore, the 2009 Girls State Cross Country Meet was an improvement over her freshman experience.

This is where I'll be on Tuesday for the POET Project LIBERTY Field Day . The action will take place at their biorefining facility in Emmetsburg , IA starting at 10 a.m. Agriculture equipment manufacturers will soon put cob harvesting equipment on the market, and Iowa farmers will have a chance to see the latest prototypes in action at Project ...

After trying to negotiate either whole-grade sharing or consolidation with North Kossuth and Sentral school districts for over three years, Armstrong-Ringsted Consolidated School District is looking in a different direction.