Estherville News

The photo of Robert Thornburg shows a young soldier standing in front of a curtain wearing a smile with his uniform.

Graveside services for Jane Ellen Benson, 73, of Armstrong will be held 2 p.m. Friday, Nov.

Estherville city administrator Penny Clayton and city clerk Vaughn Brua presented the city's proposal to union representatives for the 2010-11 Public Works Labor agreement.

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

Emmet County farmers should have a window, though a short one, through the middle of this week to harvest soybeans and corn.

Estherville area churches are now accepting gift donations for the 2009 Community Christmas Project.

For those just realizing that October is nearly over, the 2009 city elections are in less than week away.

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.

The weather continues to play havoc with the reopening of Highway 4 in Estherville.

Cover your mouth if you cough or sneeze. Stay home if you're sick. Sound like something you learned in kindergarten? Well, it still applies.

ECHO PLUS Inc. CEO Dan Youngblut set the tone at Tuesday night's annual meeting at the Estherville Elks Lodge.

The expression "When something bad happens, good comes from it" has impacted many families in Northwest Iowa in making their load a little lighter.

The Mighty Midget won another battle Monday night when the Estherville Lincoln Central Community School District Board of Education allowed the Midget Man to remain in the high-school gym and another to go up in the junior-high gym.

Jack Tatman, who began and ended his tenure on the Iowa Lakes Community College Board of Trustees as president, recently reviewed his experiences on the board with the Daily News.

As expected, local boards tried to grasp the impact of a 10 percent across-the-board cut in the state budget announced by Gov.

The upgrades at Lincoln Park-the former site of Lincoln Elementary-could start yet this fall.

Chris Bern, a veteran Knoxville High School math teacher, was elected president of theIowa State Education Association in April of 2008 by the delegates who attended the association's annual meeting in Ames.

When a person has faced adversity, it's a lot easier to see how he can help others who have faced it as well.

Youth from the Estherville area will be out in full force on Sunday, Oct. 11 as they undertake a major community service project.

Free parent education classes, funded by Prevent Child Abuse Iowa, will be held at Demoney Elementary in Estherville starting Thursday, Oct.