Clear Lake woman killed in I-35 pile-up

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A Clear Lake woman was killed in a 25-car pileup on Interstate 35 between Dows and Williams Friday afternoon in blizzard conditions.  

The Iowa State Patrol said 27-year-old Colby Bostick got out of her vehicle after her car was hit to check on her child in the back seat. While she was outside her vehicle, she was struck by another car.   Colby’s husband, Cody, who was with her in the car and her son, one-year-old Easton, were not injured.  

Also killed in the pileup was 43-year-old Sheila Blood, of Arkansas. 

Holiday festival just gets better and better

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Two words summed up this year’s Christmas By The Lake celebration for organizer Gene Madson.  “The best!”

“Every year I think it’s better than the year before and that we’ll never top it,” said Madson.  “But I can honestly say that this year was the best we’ve ever had.”

Christ honored as Citizen of the Year

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By Marianne Morf

Don Christ was honored as the 2012 Citizen of the Year by the Clear Lake Rotary Club at a dinner held in his honor Thursday at the Best Western Holiday Lodge. 

Clear Lake industry facing closure?

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News report about South Street Bakery still unconfirmed

 

Baker’s Pride Inc., which operates South Street Bakery in Clear Lake’s industrial park, has notified employees of a possible closure, according to a report in The Burlington Hawk Eye.

Calls to Baker’s Pride leadership on the corporate level, as well as the local plant, were not returned by press time Tuesday.

G-H/V queen and king candidates

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Garner-Hayfield/Ventura High School is celebrating its Homecoming this week.  Pictured are queen and king candidates (front L-R) Kelly Babcock, Alysha Clevenger, Sara Faber, Hannah Hutcheson, Krista Jolivette, Renae Lau, Kelsey 

Firemen set date for dedication of 9/11 steel monument

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The Clear Lake Fire Department plans to unveil and dedicate a memorial featuring a steel beam pulled from 9/11 wreckage in New York in a special ceremony set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11.

 

Clear Lake man charged with Theft in the First Degree

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Michael David Eichmann, 42, of Clear Lake, has been charged with Theft in the First Degree, a class C felony, and Ongoing Criminal Conduct, a class B felony after the culmination of an 

investigation conducted by the Clear Lake Police Department. 

Ventura man sentenced to prison in child pornography case

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A Ventura man who possessed child pornography was sentenced Aug. 1,  to 10 years in federal prison.

Brandon Phinney, 28, received the sentence after an April 1, 2013, guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography. At the guilty plea, Phinney admitted that he possessed child pornography on his computer.

City of Clear Lake files lawsuit for damages to police car

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April accident sidelined police lieutenant

 

The City of Clear Lake has filed a lawsuit against two brothers in connection with an April accident in which a police car driven by Lt. Paul Chizek was struck by a truck.  The city is seeking an $8,890.36 judgment against Steven Orta, 21, and Ryan Orta, 29, both of Mason City, for damage to the police car.

Fire destroys rural home

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Family evacuated safely; structure uninsured

A home in rural Clear Lake was destroyed by fire early Monday morning, June 24.

 

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