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The Harris-Lake Park girls basketball team's early season struggles continued Tuesday, Dec. 10 in a home contest with MMCRU. The Wolves fell 73-17 to the Royals in Lake Park. Zella Ingham led Harris-Lake Park with six points. Ava Rasche had four points and a steal. Allison Wallace had three points and a steal...

The Harris-Lake Park boys basketball team picked up a second War Eagle Conference victory Tuesday, Dec. 10, as the Wolves defeated MMCRU 67-43 in Lake Park. Isaac Ihnen led the way with 25 points. Bubba Sohn chipped in 22 on the night. With the win, the Wolves improved to 2-1 overall and 2-1 in conference play...

Class 3A No. 12-ranked Spirit Lake earned a Lakes Conference girls hoops victory Tuesday, Dec. 10 in Spencer. The Indians topped the Tigers 58-41. Brooke Smith led the way with 15 points, four rebounds and four assists. Jordyn Hamm had 15 points and five rebounds...

The Spirit Lake boys basketball team kicked off its Lakes Conference slate with a narrow loss to Spencer on Tuesday, Dec. 10. The Indians fell 51-45 to the host Tigers. Creighton Morisch led the Indians with 14 points. Spencer's Gage Garnatz led all scorers with 17. Teammate Karter Petzenhauser scored 14...

The eighth-ranked (3A) Okoboji girls basketball team improved to 4-0 on the season with a 57-45 road win over Rock Valley on Tuesday, Dec. 10. Magan Christopherson led the Pioneers in scoring with 17 points. She also had three steals. Kallyn Stumbo and Camry Jones both notched double-doubles...

106 1st Place - Mikey Baker, West Sioux, Hawarden 2nd Place - Dylan Jones, Okoboji/HMS 3rd Place - Cam Borman, Central Lyon/George-Little Rock 4th Place - Denver Ash, Fulda-Murray Cty Central 5th Place - Carson Torreson, Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire...

Okoboji/HMS placed five wrestlers in the finals and earned a third-place team finish at the Okoboji Invitational held Saturday, Dec. 7 in Milford. Okoboj/HMS coach Nate Dau said it was a great team effort. "We had a great team effort throughout the day and got some big wins," he said. ...

Returning state qualifier and seventh-place finisher Jonathon Burnette earned a runner-up finish to lead the Spirit Lake Park wrestling team at the Okoboji Invitational held Saturday, Dec. 7 in Milford. The Indians — the returning Class 2A state runners-up — placed ninth overall...

Not a fan of deer making a quick snack of your backyard plants in the fall and winter? Here are five tips to help homeowners make their trees and shrubs less desirable to deer from now to April: Prevent deer from getting into the area by adding snow fencing, electric fencing or woven wire. Try hanging burlap around young trees to hide them, or add a few lines of baling twine a few feet out around a tree. Leaning four palettes around a young spruce can be effective, too...

The recent Iowa Great Lakes Fishing Club’s fall “DNR Night” held on Thursday, Nov. 14 drew one of the largest crowds I can remember. Held at the Oak Hill Outdoor facility located at the corner of HWY 71/86 across from Perkins Restaurant, I’d estimate close to 200 people were in attendance. What I appreciated the most (plus the free pizza and exchanging good fishing tales) is the chance to listen to a yearly update from DNR personnel...

Ice has been coming and going so far this year, but it’s for sure that eventually we’re going to have safe ice available to us. When that happens, the following ideas will help you be more successful when it comes to fishing through the ice. When fishing is slow, get as many lines in the water as possible. ...

For the last two years, the Iowa Great Lakes Sanitary District like everyone in the area, has been dealing with high water issues. When the lake water levels are high, that leads to high ground water levels around the lakes. High ground water levels around the Lakes area means more water trying to get into private and public sanitary sewer systems...