You can’t keep a good kite down...

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Or kite lovers away from a good festival

Wintering hawks take bird feeding to its highest level

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by Lowell Washburn

The woman at the opposite end of the phone line was -- well, she was hysterical.  Absolutely in a rage, and that’s putting it mildly.  Whenever she’d stop to take a breath, I’d seize the opportunity to try working in a few words of my own.  Didn’t work.  Before I’d get half way through the first sentence, off she’d go again.  At first I was confused, but eventually I began to connect the dots.  As near as I could tell, here’s what had happened.

Get a fresh start

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Library offers ‘Food for Fines’ during January

The Clear Lake Public Library will accept canned foods in payment for fines during the month of January.  Food items collected will be donated to the Hawkeye Harvest Food Bank.  

Enrollment dips at CL schools

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Enrollment in the Clear Lake School District slipped 26.64 students in 2013-14, reports Superintendent Anita Micich.

The school leader shared enrollment numbers with the School Board during a November work session.  The current certified enrollment for 2013-2014,  as of Oct. 1, is 1,236.70, she reported. 

“We are down 26.65 students, however our open enrollment numbers are down 34.50 and we graduated a large class last year so this was anticipated,” said Micich.

LAKE LEVEL

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Rain last week caused a .36” increase in the lake level. The new level measured

 -8.16” below the weir.  Last year at this time the lake measured -29.76” below the weir.

Sunday hours announced for City yard waste site

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The City of Clear Lake’s Yard Waste Collection Site, located at 1419 2nd Ave. S., will be open three Sundays in November for city residents to dispose of loose yard waste.  On Nov. 3, 10 and 17 the site will be open from noon to 5 p.m.

Regular hours for the Yard Waste Collection Site are  Monday and Wednesday, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.  The site is is also available during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Fall fun

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The weather was beautiful and the crowds were large at the Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce’s annual Harvest Festival 

CLHS Homecoming royalty

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J.J. Theobald and Bailey Kibsgaard were crowned as Homecoming king and queen at Clear Lake High School last 

School District involved in $50K bullying settlement

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The Clear Lake School District has paid a $50,000 settlement to the parent of a Clear Lake High School graduate based upon claims filed with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission alleging discrimination.
 School Board minutes and General Fund bills published in the July 9th Clear Lake Mirror-Reporter listed a $50,000 payment made to Tim Davidson on behalf of his son, Spencer, a 2014 CLHS graduate.  

State of Iowa releases test scores

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Celebrations, challenges for CL schools

 Just like its students, the Clear Lake School District got a report card, of sorts, from the State of Iowa. And its worthy of being hung on the refrigerator.
 “We’re celebrating some terrific results from our Iowa Assessments,” commented Tracy Thomsen, curriculum director for the Clear Lake Schools. “I remember the year, about 20 some years ago now, when only 49 percent of our fourth grade students were proficient in reading on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, and that didn’t 

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