Okoboji News

Fireworks to light Lakes area skies A pair of fireworks displays will highlight the holiday weekend as explosive fun decorates the sky over two of the area's lakes.

The Spirit Lake School District, which hired a new superintendent earlier this year, will have two more new administrators in the halls.

Arnolds Park, Iowa, author Peter Davidson's fiction book 'Murder In Okoboji' was published in late May, featuring many actual businesses and real people from the Okoboji area.

ITC company officials in February released a conceptual map of the Green Power Express, a network of transmission lines designed to capture wind energy.

Tired of busting your budget to entertain yourself in the Lakes area? Maybe you're crunching cash this Saturday after taking the family out for a movie - complete with popcorn, sodas and Junior Mints.

It is wonderful to return to the Iowa Great Lakes each year. We love the area and the many opportunities the area has.

This photograph taken in late May documents the extent of erosion which has eaten away the natural sand beach and tree roots on Gull Point.

The Okoboji Summer Theatre , www.okobojisummertheatre.org , 52nd Season began last week when the OST Box Office opened on Monday, June 8, 2009, and the opening performance is this evening, Tuesday, June 16, 8:00 p.m., followed by the annual opening night post-performance party.

Cell phones have become an integral part of many of our lives for basic communication and much more.

Okoboji, Ia. - The federal stimulus package has been a "big, colossal, utter disastrous mistake." Mike Huckabee said today while in Iowa.

I needed to take a few weeks off from this new blog. I'm busy, busy, busy, and activities for which I don't get paid sometimes have to take a back seat to family, employment, community, and homeowner commitments.

With the exterior renovation complete on the Dickinson County Nature Center, members of the Dickinson County Conservation Board are now trying to find the funds to complete the interior of the structure.

Many people believe the road, not the Lower Gar weir, controls the lake levels, and are therefore concerned that any of options presented in the 1999 USACE report would lower lake levels, such that in a normal year water levels would lower faster and by June fall as low as they normally are in August.

Central Iowa boat sales have stayed afloat despite troubled economic waters, but retailers say tight credit and uncertain incomes have dramatically changed the type of craft customers crave.

Zandbroz Variety, 209 S. Phillips Ave., will host a book signing with two local authors, 2-4 p.m. Saturday Dell Rapids author C.E. Holmes' latest novel, "Excavating Okoboji: To the Beat of the Waves," is a sequel to his last work, "Okoboji: Puppet Show of Memory." The latest work is fiction, but set in the the Arnolds Park area, and punctuated with ...

Just two years after a rare, eye-opening voyage through the Northwest Passage, Iowan David Thoreson is attempting to circumnavigate North and South America in a continuous sailboat trip - something that's never been done before.

Juan Humberto Castillo-Alvarez waves to his family before being escorted out of the courtroom by deputies April 25, 2008, at the Clay County Courthouse.

Ha! I had just notified the DCN staff last week that I was afraid I am too busy during the summer to find time to water blog, but here I am.

The Iowa Firemen's Association has honored the Pleasant Hill Fire Department for work done annually at the Iowa State Fair.

It's a summer to visit your Iowa neighbors. The economy hasn't recovered yet, and although a few will note positive signs, a frugal mindset lingers among travelers.