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Ten years ago, there was only crop land where Highway 71 merges with Highway 9 west of Superior. But one man from Alpha, Minnesota, had a dream. He'd had it for a long time. "I can remember going to the drive-in theater with my dad, walking across the parking lot with my arm stretched up in the air, walking to the concession stand and looking at all the excitement going on," Gaylord Kemp said. "The drive-in theater at that age looked unbelievably big. It was huge."...

The municipal proceedings surrounding a development on the former site of The Inn at Okoboji are finished, but the public park tied to the deal has stalled. The Okoboji City Council heard an initial plan from developers Whitecap LLC, through local representative Mike Jensen, in February. ...

Scooter’s Coffee will be opening a pair of drive-thru locations in Spencer and Spirit Lake. Robb Steffes, raised in Spencer, and Joshua Morris, who grew up spending summers at the Iowa Great Lakes, are the franchisees of the two new Scooter's Coffee sites...

Seventh-seed Spirit Lake entered the state softball tournament with high hopes. However, the Indians ran into a buzzsaw in returning runner-up Albia in the first round Tuesday, and the Lady Dees showed plenty of 'O'. Albia plated 10 runs in five innings, sending Spirit Lake into the consolation bracket with a 10-0 loss...

The Okoboji School District found a buyer for the high-profile middle school property in Arnolds Park. With a 3-2 vote, the Okoboji School Board agreed to sell the land to the Imagine Iowa Great Lakes beautification group. The vote followed approximately 45 minutes of discussion at a special meeting Thursday morning...

More than 1 million Americans are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), and there are nearly 60,000 new diagnoses each year. Seeing the need locally for a Parkinson’s disease management program, the Bedell Family YMCA began offering the OhioHealth "Delay the Disease" program for those struggling with the affliction in 2016...

The Clay County Sheriff's Office on Friday said it is still looking into the circumstances of a South Dakota woman's death at nightfall last night.

The Okoboji School Board's next regular meeting was scheduled for Aug. 13, but the district will be meeting early Thursday morning to discuss — and potentially approve — a purchase agreement for the Okoboji Middle School property in Arnolds Park. The district plans to sell the property and use the sale to offset the cost of a $25 million bond approved by the public in April that will fund several district improvements, including the construction of a new middle school in Milford...

Officials at the University of Okoboji have only called off homecoming festivities once since the celebration began in 1978. Heavy rains in 1993 led to high water and the U of O held off events while the community worked hard to keep flood damage to a minimum...

Every summer, Boys Town youth and families are given the opportunity to enjoy their summer vacations on the sandy shores of the Boys Town Okoboji Camp on the waters of West Okoboji. This summer, Jeff and Misty Sweezy, their two biological sons, Lynux, 14, and Zander, 12 — and their six Boys Town sons, had the opportunity to enjoy the camp. For five of the six boys in the Boys Town program, it was the first time at the lakeside recreation center...