Palo Alto County News

The Farm Lab of Iowa Lakes Community College will host its annual Farm Field Day and Expo on Thursday, Sept.

Palo Alto County Supervisors discussed options on a request for a stop sign and the hiring of part-time workers to mow roadsides in their Sept.

An abstention and a split vote of the Palo Alto County Board of Supervisors left a personnel policy for the Secondary Road Department unchanged Tuesday morning.

It's an uncontested race in the Tuesday, Sept. 9 election for the two seats available on the Ruthven-Ayrshire school board.

Questions over a personnel procedure in the Secondary Road Department comprised a majority of the discussion of the Palo Alto County Supervisors at their weekly meeting Tuesday, Aug.

The Palo Alto County Sheriff's Office has filed charges against a Terril man as the result of an investigation into an incident in Graettinger back on July 18.

A variety of items, related to the start of the 2008-2009 academic year, were on the agenda recently for the Emmetsburg Community Schools Board of Education.

School elections will be held Tuesday, Sept. 9. Absentee ballots for those who will be absent on election day are available at the Palo Alto County Auditor's Office.

The 2008 edition of the Iowa Lakes Community College Palo Alto County Scholarship Golf Outing ended up raising nearly $10,000 for scholarships following play on Friday.

A weekend crash in Palo Alto County, Iowa killed one person and sent two others to the hospital.

Should there be a change in the speed limit on the road north of the golf course? Read/Post a comment A request to set speed limits on N40 to Rockport Subdivision met with mixed reaction on the county and city ...

The nation's swing counties are growing more diverse, potentially impacting this year's race for president.

Golfers who want to enjoy a day on the links and help out a good cause are invited to break out the golf clubs on Friday, August 15, for the 2008 edition of the Palo Alto County Scholarship Golf Outing.

The mowing of grass along the edge of Palo Alto County's roads generated some discussion by the Palo Alto County Board of Supervisors during its August 5 meeting.

The first major expansion of Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa's electronic health records system has been completed at three hospitals in the Mercy Network, officials of Mercy-North Iowa announced.

Another school year will soon be underway, and parents across Palo Alto County are in the process of preparing their children for the upcoming 2008-2009 school year.

Of five area school districts, only one will have a contested race on Sept. 9, when school elections across Iowa will be held.

The safety of Emmetsburg residents was the subject of discussion during the July 29, meeting of the Palo Alto County Board of Supervisors.

Coming up with a way to perform minor drainage district repairs was one of the areas of discussion for the Palo Alto County Board of Supervisors during their meeting on Tuesday.

Dan Voigt, sports reporter for The Reporter & The Democrat, was surprised with the announcement that he will be inducted into the Iowa 4-H Hall of Fame.