Stories from Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Silver Lake is the icing on the cake of the Lake Park community, according to Scott Mitchell, president of the Silver Lake Park Improvement Association. Mitchell said the lake's two main uses are fishing and recreation, like boating and skiing and several entities are partnering to improve the lake's health in order to keep it that way...

There's a sense of both rustic history and modern science on the Iowa Lakside Laboratory campus. The lab's foundations — both metaphorical and literal — were laid in the days of railroad cars, ink wells and horse-drawn carriages, but the research within the masoned stones is throughly modern. The campus and its stone-walled buildings have become a hub for scientific research, perpetuating the motto of its founder Dr. Thomas Macbride: "The study of nature in nature."...

There were moments when a theater dating back to the silent movie era looked like it might stay silent once and for all. But, the Pioneer Theater in Milford has new life, some new wrinkles and freshly-popped popcorn ready to go along the west side of Highway 71 in Milford...