Clear Lake Mirror Reporter

(Above) Local filming locations for Strong Tower included the Clausen House on North 5th Street, as well as Main Avenue businesses. - Reporter photo by Chris Barragy.

Clear Lake chosen for TV pilot

by Marianne Gasaway

Could a story rooted in Midwestern values and filmed in Clear Lake, Iowa become a television show?  You’ll have to stay tuned.

(Above) Brandon Berhow-Goll took this photo on April 5, 2005, of the four soldiers that were killed the following day on April 6, 2005.  Pictured (L-R): is Matthew Serio, Christopher Ramos, Shane Goldman and Jesse Thiry. These men gave the ultimate sacrifice the evening they were ambushed in Zadon, Iraq while on a counter mortar patrol.  -Submitted photo

by Michelle Watson

An estimated $40,000 damage was caused in a house fire Wednesday afternoon in Clear Lake.

Firefighters responded to 1509 N. 24th St. at 1:57 p.m. and upon arrival found a single story home with light smoke showing from an open overhead garage door and heavy fire showing in a kitchen. 

Dr. Gary B. Blodgett, longtime Mason City orthodontist and state legislator, died May 19, 2021.  His 50-year professional and political career  included service in the Bush  administration in Washington, D.C.  and numerous North Iowa Republican causes and campaigns.