Okoboji News

State officials who oversee teacher licensing expressed frustration Friday about Iowa law, which fueled their decision to protect the names of Iowans who accuse teachers of abuse and other violations.

The Boji Babes of Okoboji are more than a group of pretty women whose images light up the pages of a calendar.

A North Dakota community is reeling tonight after the tragic loss of three Dickinson State University softball players.

Wow! "A sword." What could be more exciting to two nine year old boys than discover a sword in a sheath in my cousin's grandparent's attic? Sam Holcomb is my 1st cousin and lived in Osage, Iowa but both of his grandparents lived in my hometown.

The Estherville Good Samaritan Society took a big leap toward joining ultra-upscale care facilities last month when it hired Aaron Fahrmann, former executive chef at The Inn of Okoboji, as its dietary supervisor.

This is no fish tale. Algona resident Bill Dau donated his collection of 257 lures and plugs to the Water's Edge Nature Center at Smith Lake, three miles north of Algona.

Posted on Oct 16, 2009 by Dave Rasdal . When The Rubber Band takes the stage at 7 p.m. Tuesday night at the Nob Hill Ballroom north of Decorah, Iowa, it symbolizes a return to the '60s. Formed in 1966, The Bubber Band had gone by other names before it settled on that one.

Gore will be the focus of a nine-year tradition for Spirit Lake as the Mainsail Organization prepares to kick off its annual haunted house fundraiser.

Retired Wells Dairy president Dan Wells took delivery last week of the rotating barrel and the giant slide from the old Arnolds Park Fun House at West Okoboji Lake in northwest Iowa.

Both Spirit Lake cross country teams took second place in windy conditions at the Algona Inviational in Whittermore on Monday.

The Wall Street Journal's Eating Out columnist, Raymond Sokolov, dropped into Des Moines during the Iowa State Fair and wound up praising the fare at three local restaurants.

The University of Okoboji invites residents and visitors to a weekend of fall fun Saturday, Sept.

With the Sept. 17 filing deadline past, the ballots are now set for Dickinson County's city elections.

Recreational trail construction requires skillful engineering and material fabrication.

It's the end of a 90-year tradition at Iowa's West Lake Okoboji. Fans of the Black Walnut Candy Shop won't have its locally made taffy to chew on anymore - at least not sticky stuff made on site as it has been by the same Arnolds Park family since 1919.

Although summer and its sunny stream of fun events has past, the promise of a warm fall means the fun doesn't have to be over.

A stroll down memory lane is really somehting if you go to the Okoboji Cemetery in Arnolds Park.

A fire last Wednesday morning at the ARCO Dehydrating plant in Lake Park destroyed the facility's warehouse.

Ask Peter Van Der Linden what it is that Iowa Lakeside Lab does. Then get ready for a long answer.

The Dickinson County Trails Board, with the cooperation of the Iowa Department of Transportation has closed Iowa 86 in Dickinson County to complete trail construction on the west side of West Lake Okoboji.