Stories from Wednesday, November 15, 2017

While in custody at the Clay County Jail, Nathan Tesch, age 30, of Everly, was served a Dickinson County arrest warrant for trespassing. Tesch was held on an additional $300 bond. Nicole Latrice Beasley, age 32, of Austin, Minnesota, was charged with speeding, no insurance and no license at 9:05 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, near the intersection of 18th Street and Erie Avenue in Spirit Lake...

Turkey, stuffing, and the traditional pumpkin pie are some of the best treasures a person could be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day. State Treasurer Michael L. Fitzgerald knows that this time of year brings the annual gathering of family, friends, food and festivities. ...

A new water quality organization is making its way onto the agendas of some local governments. An agreement with the Little Sioux Watershed Coalition appeared on the Tuesday agenda of both the Dickinson County Board of Supervisors' and the Okoboji City Council. ...

Climate-solution advocates launched a five-state regional gathering on the weekend of Oct. 13-15 at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory north of Milford. The Citizens Climate Lobby is a bipartisan organization focused on building political will for climate solutions by enabling personal breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power...

GrapeTree Medical Staffing on Monday announced Steve Heeg as the new GrapeTree Medical Staffing CEO. Tim Kinnetz, founder of GrapeTree will serve on the GrapeTree board of directors. “Steve has unparalleled expertise in strategic healthcare leadership,” Kinnetz said. “GrapeTree has already experienced exponential growth and I have the utmost trust in Steve and the support of my New MainStream Capital partners to lead our company into new levels of success.”...

Good News Community Church in Okoboji is currently taking shoeboxes prepared with small gifts and necessities for needy families worldwide. This is the seventh year that Samaritan’s Purse, a nondenominational Evangelical Christian organization, has provided its Operation Christmas Child program...

With daylight saving time in place and winter weather coming in, some area citizens might begin to suffer from a type of major depression brought on by changes in season. Those suffering from major depressive episodes that regularly occur seasonally can be diagnosed with a major depressive disorder with a seasonal specifier, according to Collin Bohlke, outpatient therapist at Seasons Center...

"Crime in Dickinson County is doing well," Dickinson County Attorney Jon Martin told the Dickinson County Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning. Martin backed up his somewhat tongue-in-cheek introduction with some numbers. Felonies in the county rose from 77 in 2014 to 102 in 2015. ...