Clear Lake Mirror Reporter

Clifford Edward Mourlam, 95, of Clear Lake, died Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015, at Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in, Mason City, Iowa.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, with the Rev. Dr. Pat Hall officiating.  Inurnment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, in Mason City.

Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.

Family suggests memorial contributions to Hospice of North Iowa.

City Attorney John Sorensen administered the oath of office to newly elected City Council members (L-R) Jim Boehnke, Mike Callanan and Mark Ebeling on Dec. 22.  Boehnke and Callanan successfully ran for re-election, while Ebeling won the First Ward seat vacated by Dana Brant.  The new Council will meet Monday, Jan. 4.-Reporter photo.

Nine inches blankets area

Clear Lake and North Iowa almost made it through December without a major weather incident, but Monday the area received more than a half-foot of snowfall.  In Clear Lake, an estimated nine inches of snow fell.

As the year comes to a close, we take a look back at the stories which dominated the headlines in 2015.

# 1 It’s McKesson!

The biggest story of the year was actually the same story which topped the 2014 review.  In February the McKesson Corporation, the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America, was introduced as the future tenant of a 340,000 square foot building under construction in the city’s Larry Luker Memorial Industrial Park.