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Go ahead and make some noise next time you are at the Spencer Public Library. Thanks to a grant worth over $23,000 from T-Mobile, the Dewey Music Garden is now open, and Library Director Sarah Beth Fuchsen says the music garden fits in with the library’s 5-year strategic plan, meeting at least 3 of their goals.

With a community vote on a sixty-nine-million-dollar bond issue looming in two weeks, the Dickinson County Taxpayers Association is holding a informational meeting at the Milford Community Center Wednesday (October 23) from 6 to 7:30.

At Monday night’s Estherville City Council meeting the City Council approved a speed limit change on 170th St. to alleviate confusion.

The Spencer Economic Development Corporation earmarked ten thousand dollars and recently secured a twenty-thousand-dollar rural empowerment grant from the state to research daycare options for the community.

-A Storm Lake man is charged with assault by strangulation, a class D felony, obstruction of Emergency Communications, a simple misdemeanor and is being held without bond at the Buena Vista County Jail after a domestic assault report on Thursday October 17th.

A microgrant program to assist the owners of rental properties rebuilding after the flood remains elusive.

The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls is offering Winter Weather Awareness Classes.

Storm Lake police were called to the scene of a one vehicle accident Saturday morning. The driver struck a tree in the 600 block of Hudson Street and fled.

The National Association of congregational churches is lining up volunteers to help rebuild damaged homes in Spencer. Senior Pastor at first Congressional Church of Spencer Sharon “Shaazzy Britz Spoke with Northwest Iowa Now about their need for local volunteers. 

Tickets are now on sale for a Main Stage Production at Spencer Community Theatre.