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Twenty-one Buena Vista University students will be honored at the 2013 Governor’s Volunteer Award ceremonies on June 4t...
The massive Oklahoma tornado that struck school buildings is prompting a closer look at tornado safety procedures at schools....
Storm Lake St. Mary’s eighth grade students participated in an appreciation mass Tuesday evening to mark their transiti...
Albert City-Truesdale and Newell-Fonda will be sharing a superintendent next school year. The two school boards are announcin...
Over two-thousand people participated in Buenification Day last month… sponsored by Buena Vista University… but...
Updated design drawings for the Storm Lake High School renovation and auditorium project will be presented to the school boar...
Twenty-five thousand dollars has been approved to purchase needed musical instruments for the Storm Lake school district. Tth...
Several new classes will be offered at the Storm Lake High School this fall. Principal Beau Ruleaux told the school board thi...
Lunch prices will be going up for Storm Lake public school students this fall. This week, the school board approved raising t...
The entire Storm Lake St. Mary’s student body bid farewell to principals Erv Rowlands and Bev Mach this morning. Follow...
Seventy new computers to replace three computer labs were Wednesday night by the Storm Lake school board. Superintendent Doct...
The Storm Lake school board holds their regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening. The board will tour the building trades cl...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s Athletic Director Tracy Schultz presents the Iowa Hall of Pride Challenge Award to student body p...
Collection of Middle Eastern Artifacts at BVU Available to Check OutA new program has been implemented at Buena Vista Univers...
On the 100th anniversary of the founding of Buenafication Day at Buena Vista University, over 47-hundred hours of service wer...
The recent “One Day without Shoes” event on the Buena Vista University campus generated over $790 from t-shir...
Buena Vista University's Office of Student Affairs and the Outdoor Adventure Club will host the fifth "Beavers' ...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s Parish held two First Communion celebrations recently. The St. Mary’s School and parish Sch...
May 6th through the 10th is Teacher Appreciation Week and Storm Lake Radio has named OA-BCIGFirst Grade teacher Diane Schulte...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s School celebrated the annual Maycrowning this week in St. Mary’s Church. As May is the mont...
Contracts for Storm Lake teachers, administrators, and support staff for next school year were approved Wednesday evening by ...
Design drawings for the Storm Lake High School auditorium and renovation project will be unveiled in two weeks. Superintenden...
The Storm Lake Middle School recently received a Toolbox for Education Grant from Lowe's. Students were busy preparing ra...
Buena Vista University honored over 200 students for outstanding accomplishments in academics and leadership at the annual St...
The Storm Lake High School music ensembles will be among the participants in the Iowa High School Music Association State Cla...
The Buena Vista University Vocal Jazz Ensemble will present its annual Jazz Show on Thursday May 2nd at 7:30pm in Anderson Au...
Steve Phillips of the Storm Lake Kiwanis Club stopped by Storm Lake St. Mary’s School to contribute $1,000 to the l...
(Joan Englander, Julie Pedersen and Caleb Christensen were good sports in the Pie-in-the-Face competition for the Then Feed J...
(St. Mary’s educators Diane Frank, Ryan Berg and Kate Droessler all assisted high school senior Molly Lamoureux in a co...
ISU Animal Science Sophomore, Austin Ehlers, Storm Lake, was honored April 14, 2013, at the Iowa State University College of ...
Storm Lake schools are using a new computer technology that’s proving to be very popular with students and teachers. Di...
Architects for the Storm Lake High School renovation project continue to meet with teachers and school staff. Superintendent ...
The plans for relighting the baseball and softball fields at the Storm Lake High School were approved this week by the school...
The Storm Lake school district is spending 230-thousand dollars on technology this school year. District technology director ...
Nearly 30 Buena Vista University students participated in three AWOL (Alternative Week of Off-site Learning) trips during spr...
A new freshman skills class will begin next fall at the Storm Lake High School. The school board Wednesday night approved the...
The Storm Lake school board Wednesday evening will hold a public hearing on plans for re-lighting the high school baseball an...
Doctor Condoleezza Rice… who served as the U.S. Secretary of State from 2005-2009… will be the 21st William Sie...
Several arrests were made after police were dispatched to the Storm Lake High School Monday to investigate a disturbance. Pol...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s School has hired Tim Wagner of Garretson, South Dakota as the new pre-K through fifth grade princ...
The Storm Lake Middle School music students walked across the street to present a Music Showcase to the Elementary students. ...
The National History Day competition attracted 10,000 student participants in Iowa in 2013. This year’s research theme ...
Storm Lake Saint Mary’s Kindergarten through 12th grade students assisted in packaging over 43-thousand meals Friday af...
BVU Students to Host “Barefoot Walk” April 16 Buena Vista University (BVU) students are hosting a barefoot walk e...
A Sioux Central Math class has won one-thousand dollars in a Financial Literacy Challenge. Sioux Central was awarded the one-...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s Business students competed in the Iowa Central Community College Business Competition Day Thursda...
The 2013 Storm Lake High School Spring Concert has been rescheduled to a new date, Tuesday April ninth. The reason for the da...
Buena Vista University will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Buenafication Day in April with a week of...
The Storm Lake High School hopes to begin a class next fall for freshmen. Engligh teacher Julie Winterton says every year th...
The Storm Lake Police Department and Saint Mary’s School Thursday celebrated the graduation of the Saint Mary’s s...
The Storm Lake school board this week approved three out-of-state student trips. Third graders will be going to the zooinOmah...
The first reading of a policy covering handheld technology devices was approved this week by the Storm Lake school board. Sup...
The Storm Lake school district’s property tax rate will remain the same next fiscal year… despite an increase in...
Buena Vista University will holds its 13th annual Cultural Leadership Conference (CLC) April 11-14.The conference offers high...
Thirty Buena Vista University (BVU) students will be heading to three far-flung destinations — Haiti, the Grand Canyon,...
Fr. Bernie Georges of the Diocese of Wichita spoke to Storm Lake St. Mary’s 6-12 grade students Tuesday about growing u...
The Storm Lake Middle School was evacuated Tuesday afternoon due to a false fire alarm. Fire chief Mike Jones says the Fire D...
Buena Vista University has been named to the 2013 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corpor...
The Storm Lake school board will meet in special session Wednesday evening for a presentation on the high school renovation a...
The annual “College Fair” will be held at the Storm Lake High School on Wednesday, March sixth. Principal Beau Ru...
Buena Vista University has announced a four-percent increase in tuition at its Storm Lake campus for the 2013-14 academic yea...
A meeting for parents of students at Storm Lake’s East Early Childhood Center is planned for next month. East School pr...
The Storm Lake School Board has passed a resolution urging the state legislature to set the allowable growth for school distr...
The Storm Lake High School has been quite successful in efforts to reduce the number of D, F, and Incomplete grades received ...
The Storm Lake school board this week approved sharing agreements for next school year with neighboring school districts. The...
About 91-thousand dollars in improvements is planned for Storm Lake schools this summer. Superintendent Doctor Carl Turner to...
Another section of fifth grade is planned next year at the Storm Lake Middle School. Wednesday night, the school board approv...
The Storm Lake High School Auditorium Committee has reviewed two options for the planned auditorium… and selected one ...
The Storm Lake school board has approved a high school student trip to Florida for next spring. High school orchestra teacher...
Buena Vista University is sponsoring the seventh annual "Show Us Your Stuff" contest which showcases some of the be...
Miss Frizzle of the Scholastic Magic School Bus book series was a special guest at last week’s Catholic Schools Week pi...
The Storm Lake School District is proposing a two-percent pay raise for teachers… significantly less than the six-and-...
The Kindergarten classrooms at Storm Lake Elementary celebrated the 100th day of School on Tuesday, January 29th.The teachers...
The Storm Lake Education Association is proposing a 6.51 percent increase in the master teaching contract for the 2013-2014 s...
The Storm Lake Community School District participated in a Martin Luther King Day of Service on Friday, January 18. All stude...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s School will be celebrating Catholic Schools Week January 27-February 1 to recognize the impact of...
Mock Trial is a program designed to introduce students to our legal system by providing a challenging, academic competition.\...
The Storm Lake School’s wellness policy was reviewed this week by the school board. Curriculum director Lori Porsch say...
Three possible plans for a new auditorium at the Storm Lake High School were unveiled at a meeting with the auditorium commit...
The Storm Lake schools will participate in service learning projects Friday to celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday....
Six long-time Storm Lake school teachers will be resigning at the end of the school year. Wednesday night, the school board a...
The Storm Lake school board has approved the creation of a preschool/special education position for the 2013-14 school year. ...
(Left to right...Kallie Goettsch, Megan Drey and Ben Peters) OnWednesday January 16th, three students from Storm Lake St. Ma...
An East Sac High School student was arrested Thursday afternoon. The Sac County Sheriff’s Office charged 18-year-old Da...
A contract has been approved for a topography survey for the Storm Lake high school property. The school board this week appr...
The first reading of policies covering the use of cell phones and technology by school staff was approved this week by the St...
In response to the school shootings in Connecticut last Friday, Storm Lake Superintendent Carl Turner believes that the distr...
After the school shootings in Connecticut, many school districts have been reviewing security measures. Storm Lake High Schoo...
A group of students from the Ridgeview Middle School in Early will be in Sioux City Saturday… participating in a &ldqu...
The Buena Vista County Soil and Water Conservation District is conducting a pilot project in the Alta School District…...
The innovative Undergraduate Rural Medicine Education and Development (URMED) program developed five years ago through a part...
The winter concert series in the Storm Lake Schools is underway. The 5th & 6th graders had their concert on November 29th. Th...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s held their preK-5 Christmas Concert Monday, Dec. 3 in the school gym. The students provided large...
St. Mary’s Student Council has been operating Santa’s Secret Workshop at the Masonic Lodge/Lake Avenue Lounge bui...
(Dr. Larson)A new approach to acting and directing in modern theatre will be the focus of a Buena Vista University (BVU) Janu...
Storm Lake school district residents Tuesday approved all three questions about the high school renovation project. The first...
Voters in the Cherokee school district Tuesday approved a revenue purpose statement that will allow funds received from an Ad...
The Storm Lake High School Dance Squad competed at State Dance Squad in Des Moines last Thursday and Friday. The team receive...
Governor Terry Branstad has appointed a 20-year-old University of Iowa student from Northwest Iowa to the board that governs ...
English Language Learners at the Storm Lake High School are using technology to help learn English. Teachers Abigail Green an...
New lights are needed for the Storm Lake High School baseball and softball fields… but the school board has delayed ha...
The Storm Lake school board has received the contract with DLR Group of Des Moines for architectural services for the planned...
The Storm Lake school board holds this regular monthly meeting Monday evening. The board will receive the annual financial re...
Storm Lake Middle School honored our veterans by hosting a breakfast followed by a program for all students and staff in the ...
The Storm Lake High School auditorium committee met Thursday night with the newly-hired architects for the high school renova...
The Staff and Students of Storm Lake Early Childhood received a generous donation from Steve Schuknecht and his three childre...
(Pictured front are Dulce, Jessica, Shannon, Apeay. Back is Michael, Zach and Ben.)Storm Lake St. Mary’s eighth grade s...
Students at Storm Lake High School held a mock election on Nov. 2. Students were to register to vote during a Tornado Time ac...
The family fun night at the Storm Lake Elementary School keeps getting more popular. Principal Juli Kwikkel says over 400 att...
Dr. Peter Steinfeld, associate dean of faculty, represented Buena Vista University (BVU) at the 50th anniversary celebration ...
The Storm Lake Middle School recently had their classrooms rated and involved the bus drivers in a behavior program. Assistan...
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Storm Lake school students are making progress in reading, math, and science. District curriculum director Lori Porsch says t...
Enrollment in the Storm Lake schools is down slightly this year. Superintendent Doctor Carl Turner says the district has 2,33...
Storm Lake school district residents will be asked to vote on three questions in December. Thursday night, the school board a...
The Storm Lake school board has rejected an offer from the city of Storm Lake for a lot on the West School property. The city...
(The senior class arranged their cans into a panther paw and ’13 to represent their class year.)Storm Lake St. Mary&rsq...
This is Fire Prevention Week… and Storm Lake fire chief Mike Jones says a highlight is educating school children on fi...
The Storm Lake schools auditorium committee will meet Monday evening at 7:00 in the High School Media Center. The committee w...
While in Storm Lake for a basketball game against the Storm Lake "Turkeys" the Harlem Ambassadors visited the Storm...
On Wednesday, Buena Vista University offered a distracted driving and drunken driving education program for students. The Arr...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s seventh grade students enjoyed the artwork and the many hands-on exhibits at the Sioux City Art C...
Thrivent Financial for Lutherans representatives Dan Bacon and Joshua Newhouse (back row left and center) presented a check f...
(Members of the Media Project class with Professor Jerry Johnson, from left, are: Grace Bodey, Johnson, Clair Lynn, Tyler McD...
BVU Freshman Explores Her Academic Interests at National Youth Science CampWhen Monica Figueroa, a Buena Vista University (BV...
The Buena Vista UniversityCommunity Campaign, which has a goal of $125,000 this year, kicks off with a Storm Lake United ...
The grant that helped fund the Tornado Learning Club at the Storm Lake Middle School has expired… but another grant wi...
2013 St. Mary’s Ball and Charity Auction Chairs Bill and Leigh Laven announced that George and Melissa Green will join ...
Forty-nine students were in the Storm Lake Charter High School last school year. That’s down from previous years, but ...
A right of first refusal has been approved to the city of Storm Lake for the purchase of South School. The school board this ...
The Storm Lake school district’s new website is now online… and Superintendent Doctor Carl Turner says they&rsqu...
Lunch prices are going up for adults and students buying a second lunch at Storm Lake schools. Superintendent Doctor Carl Tur...
The city of Storm Lake is buying a lot from the school district to expand a planned neighborhood park on the West School site...
Buena Vista University has been named a top school in the U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleg...
Plans for an auditorium at the Storm Lake High School have been scaled back… and the project is in question. Last fall...
Work is already underway on a major construction project at the Newell-Fonda school in Newell. Superintendent Jeff Dicks says...
The price tag for renovating the Storm Lake High School and adding an auditorium is quite a bit higher than expected… ...
St. Mary’s School is starting off their 100th academic year with the latest in technology. Seven interactive white boar...
Buena Vista University’s Graduate and Professional Studies program opened its newest location at Sheldon on September f...
A Storm Lake teen has been arrested after police received a report of two Storm Lake High School students receiving sexually-...
About 225 new Buena Vista University (BVU) first-year students accomplished a lot in six hours during the weekend before the ...
Seven ROTC cadets at Buena Vista University (BVU) spent three weeks abroad this summer learning about other countries’ ...
Buena Vista University (BVU) has started the fall semester with 290 new undergraduate students who are pursuing degrees at it...
The Storm Lake Middle School’s Tornado Learning Club this morning received a 20 thousand dollar grant from the Monsanto...
(left to right): Lori Droegmiller, Amy Hanks, Julia Rios (all from Citizens Community Credit Union)The Citizens Community Cre...
Along with the Catholic School Foundation of the Diocese of Sioux City, Storm Lake St. Mary’s School announces that tic...
Summer school reports were given by Storm Lake principals at the Board of Education meeting last week. Summer school at the S...
The Storm Lake School Board this week approved members of the Teacher Quality Committee. The board approved administrative me...
A “No Child Left Behind” and “Adequate Yearly Progress” report was given at the Storm Lake Board of E...
Members of the I&S Group were at the Storm Lake School Board meeting last night to give a presentation on the high school ren...
Representatives from the I&S group will be at the Storm Lake School Board meeting tonight to present revised conceptual drawi...
The Storm Lake city council has approved an agreement with the Storm Lake School District concerning South School. City manag...
Storm Lake Public Safety is reminding motorists and parents that vehicle, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic will increase aroun...
A Storm Lake Elementary School teacher was the grand prize winner of a National Teacher Appreciation Month contest sponsored ...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s preK-12 School will be opening their 100th academic year with five new educators.Pictured from le...
Governor Terry Branstad and Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds are holding 14 education town hall meetings… with the fir...
Buena Vista University recently signed a cooperative agreement with the Iowa Community College Online Consortium (ICCOC) as a...
Three renovation concepts for the Storm Lake High School were presented at a meeting Monday night.Three plans were presented,...
The Storm Lake school board has decided on several issues they would like the Iowa Legislature to address. The school board l...
The I-and-S Group architects will have three conceptual drawings of renovations to the Storm Lake High School at a meeting ne...
The tax asking for the Storm Lake school district will remain as it was initially published… but it could have been in...
The Storm Lake school board holds their regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening. The board is expected to discuss budget an...
Four Buena Vista University (BVU) students have been selected to participate in the annual Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute ...
The Storm Lake High School’s building trades class had a successful year… and plans underway for next school yea...
New math textbooks will be purchased for the Storm Lake Middle School. This week, the school board approved the recommendatio...
A 28-E agreement between the Storm Lake school district and Iowa Central Community College was approved Wednesday night by th...
The Storm Lake school board has approved technology purchases for the next year. Wednesday night, Superintendent Doctor Carl ...
The Storm Lake High School renovation study is well underway… with the architects receiving input from school administ...
The Storm Lake school board holds their regular monthly Wednesday evening. The board is expected to approve an agreement with...
Three concepts for possible renovations at South School were presented to the Storm Lake city council Monday afternoon. Archi...
Buena Vista University has received a five-thousand dollar grant to support and expand the activities of Student MOVE…...
The 12th annual Education for Service award was presented to Mark Kirkholm during Buena Vista University’s (BVU) annual...
EDGEfest raises $1,600 for area school, non-profit organizations Dollars for Scholars: Karna Converse of Storm Lake (cent...
Earlier this school year, NBC visited Storm Lake to research the effects that legislation has had on undocumented students. I...
Mustang Boys Basketball CampJune 11-15 , 9am - 12 noonBoys entering grades 4-8 next fallNewell-Fonda High School Gym, Newell,...
(from left to right...Erika Garcia, Jessica Thuma, Ashley-Farmer Hanson, and Rebecca Gisel)Dr. Ashley Farmer-Hanson, director...
It will cost more in the future for a non-school group to use a Storm Lake school district bus. The school board has changed ...
School lunch prices will be going up slightly in Storm Lake next school year. Monday night, the school board approved raising...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s School held a surprise farewell assembly Wednesday morning for longtime St. Mary’s elementa...
Eighty-nine thousand dollars in improvements are planned for the Storm Lake schools this summer. The school board this week a...
The architects who recently completed a feasibility study of South School will now conduct an evaluation and renovation study...
The new house under construction by the Storm Lake High School building trades class has been sold. Monday night, the school ...
The architects who recently completed a feasibility study of South School are proposing an evaluation and renovation study of...
Dr. Norm Nielsen, Cedar Rapids, has been elected as new chair of the Buena Vista University Board of Trustees.Nielsen, a 1961...
Buena Vista University honored over 200 students for outstanding accomplishments in academics and leadership at the annual St...
The beneficiaries for this year’s EdgeFest have been selected. The annual rock concert sponsored by Buena Vista Univers...
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, Buena Vista University (BVU) is expanding opportunities for students to gai...
Students at the Storm Lake Elementary School helped raise nearly 26-hundred dollars in the last few weeks for tornado relief....
Over 11-hundred volunteers participated in Buena Vista University’s 99th annual Buenafication Day on April 24th, contri...
The Storm Lake High School Concert Band is one of only a handful of bands chosen to perform at the Iowa Bandmasters Conferenc...
Storm Lake’s 2012 Beautification Day was a success thanks to Alliant Energy and students from Buena Vista University an...
The largest group of Buena Vista University students in over two decades made presentations at the Iowa Academy of Science an...
Buenafication Day… the annual day of service and fun at Buena Vista University… was held Tuesday on the Storm L...
New technologies are being put to good use at the Storm Lake Elementary School. Principal Juli Kwikkel says a grant provided ...
Nearly 40 Buena Vista University (BVU) students participated in four AWOL (Alternative Week of Off-site Learning) trips durin...
Sixteen security cameras will be installed at the Storm Lake High School. The school board this week voted in favor of the ca...
(St. Mary’s High School student council moderator Ryan Berg and students Renae Drey and Jasmine Demers presented $2...
The Storm Lake school board wants to find out how much renovations to the high school will cost before deciding how much mone...
Storm Lake High School Physics students traveled to Howe Hall, Iowa State University campus in Ames to participate in the ann...
The Storm Lake school board Wednesday night approved teacher contracts for next school year. The teachers are receiving a fou...
Five Buena Vista University students who became sick Monday after consuming too much caffeine during a class experiment were ...
Over 380 students and family members participated in the Storm Lake Elementary Family Fun Night on Tuesday. Families rotated ...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s School students, faculty, staff and parents participated in a food packaging event in the school ...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s High School students Jacob Kottke, Alex Larson, Casey Larson, and Dillan Smith participated in th...
Five Buena Vista University students were hospitalized overnight Monday after ingesting caffeine in a science experiment. The...
(St. Mary’s Juniors Holly Keenan, Paige Carlson and Halie Larsen gave presentations on their comprehensive research pro...
Operation Prom was held Tuesday at the Storm Lake High School. A simulated re-creation of an alcohol-related car accident beg...
Some changes have been made to a plan for an auditorium at the Storm Lake High School. Last month, the I-and-S Group architec...
Eight Storm Lake St. Mary’s Middle School students will be performing in the ICDA 5/6 honor choir held at Westwood Scho...
Buena Vista University will be offering two music camps for junior high and high school students this summer. The BVU Show Ch...
KAYL/KKIA marketing consultant Jeremy Riesenberg reads to Alta students... helping them understand what Autism is."The A...
A group of students at the Storm Lake Middle School havetaken on a task of preserving and improving their after-schoolprogram...
Buena Vista University will host its twelfth annual Cultural Leadership Conference (CLC) April 12-15. The conference provides...
Voters in the Newell-Fonda school district have approved a seven-and-a-half million dollar bond issue. There were 366 “...
Voters in the Newell-Fonda school district Tuesday will decide the fate of a seven-and-a-half million dollar bond issue. The ...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s High School 1940 alumna and local author Lorraine Petersen presented an autographed hardcover cop...
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Funeral service 2:00 Monday at First Presbyterian Church, Battle Creek. Visitation 4:00-8:00 Sunday at the church. Arrangemen...
The Storm Lake school board needs to give more direction to the district’s auditorium committee. That’s according...
Storm Lake teachers will be getting a pay raise totaling 4.51 percent. Wednesday night, the school board approved the master ...
Terry Murray and C.J. Bean, representing Farm Bureau, presented Storm Lake St. Mary’s High School student council with ...
The Storm Lake school board has approved the purchase of a new, 84-passenger school bus for 99-thousand dollars. Wednesday ni...
Wednesday night March 21st at the Storm Lake school board meeting it was announced that Ty Seaman will become the new activit...
A Storm Lake high school senior has been selected as one of the two most promising young scientific leaders in Iowa’s 2...
Funeral service will be Thursday at 10:30am at the First Presbyterian Church in Battle Creek. Visitation will be Wednesday fr...
The former Superintendent of the Clay Central-Everly School District has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first degree theft...
Buena Vista University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Honor Roll in recognition of the institution&...
John Killpack, a Buena Vista University (BVU) junior biology major from Logan, has been named a Newman Civic Fellow in recogn...
The Storm Lake Elementary School received a smart board and a student received an i-pad tablet Friday morning.DanJoyner of Hy...
In honor of St. Mary’s School’s upcoming Centennial Celebration, St. Mary’s High School alumnus of the Clas...
Buena Vista University has named Doctor Paul Theobald… a nationally known scholar and expert on the history of educati...
Ryan Scheetz, Kyle Dupic, Scott Brown, and Jeff Loving in Nepal.Three Buena Vista University (BVU) students— Kyle Dupic...
The superintendent of the Ruthven-Ayrshire School District resigned this week… following a year of contention with the...
Mel Fisher's fourth grade class at the Storm Lake Elementary School has been studying regions of the United States. The p...
Congratulations to the Falcons for advancing in state tournament play. OABCIG will not have school on Thursday, March 1. The ...
Representatives from approximately 67 colleges, schools, and branches of the military will be at the Storm Lake High School f...
Many Buena Vista University students traveled the world during this year’s January Interim… a three-week program...
The Storm Lake High School’s Large Group Speech has been quite successful this year. To start the season, they competed...
A former Storm Lake High School teacher has been hired as the principal of the Storm Lake Middle School. At a special meeting...
Buena Vista University has announced a 4 percent increase in tuition at its Storm Lake campus for the 2012-13 academic year.T...
A Storm Lake High School senior is one of 15 students statewide selected to serve on the first Learning Council, a new group ...
Nine Buena Vista University (BVU) business majors have been selected for the Clifford A. Rae Academic Achievement Award for t...
The Storm Lake schools technology coordinator hopes the district can replace computers and other technology every five years....
Storm Lake’s Teammates Mentoring program continues to be very successful… with many students meeting each week w...
Buena Vista University students have the opportunity to earn four-thousand dollars in cash prizes in the first annual “...
A trap shooting team for the Storm Lake High School has been approved by the school board. Ray Detlinger of the B-V Rifle and...
Funeral service 2:00 Sunday at South Central Calhoun High School in Lake City. Visitation 4:00-7:00 Saturday at the high scho...
Funeral service 2:00 Sunday at South Central Calhoun High School in Lake City. Visitation 4:00-7:00 Saturday at the high scho...
Storm Lake Police have made additional arrests in connection with a series of burglaries at the Storm Lake High School. Three...
(Tyler Harm, a BVU junior biology major from Schleswig, and Dr. Melinda Coogan, assistant professor of biology, use the new g...
As part of Storm Lake St. Mary’s Catholic Schools Week school mass, administration, faculty, staff and students honored...
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Several area schools participated in the 2012 Northwest Iowa District Jazz Festival… held Wednesday at the Sioux City ...
The 31stAnnual Buena Vista University Honor Band Festival will be held on Saturday, February 25th. Marie Hardt, eighth grader...
The public is invited to attend a Saint Mary’s School Community Meeting Thursday evening from 6:30-7:30 in Saint Mary&r...
Saturday, the Storm Lake school district’s auditorium committee concluded tours of area performing arts center. The com...
A Storm Lake teen was arrested after police investigated a threat Friday afternoon at the Storm Lake High School. Police were...
Technology has become a big component in the Storm Lake schools curriculum. Second grade teacher Melanie Langner recently tol...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s School will be incorporating the theme of Faith, Service and Academics into their Catholic School...
St. Mary’s students will soon be among the most connected in the country thanks to a number of iPad’s and other c...
The Storm Lake school district has entered into an agreement with Upper Des Moines Opportunity covering Headstart classes. Th...
The auditorium committee formed by the Storm Lake School District toured two school auditoriums in the area on Saturday. Abou...
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The Storm Lake school board Wednesday night approved sharing contracts for academics and athletics with Saint Mary’s fo...
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Dordt College in Sioux Center has surpassed their goal of raising 50 million dollars through its vision 2020 Campaign. The f...
The Storm Lake school board holds their regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening. Included on the agenda, approving the cont...
(Students at Storm Lake HighSchool for MLKDay) The schools in the Storm Lake Community School District participated in differ...
Eight area high school jazz bands participated this past Saturday in the Iowa High School Music Association's State Jazz Band...
Storm Lake Saint Mary’s seventh grade student Blake Lamoureaux was the overall school champion of the middle school Nat...
Several area high schools will participate in the Iowa High School Music Association State Jazz Band Festival… this Sa...
The public is invited to a meeting Wednesday eveningon the future of South School in Storm Lake. The school board is holding ...
The Storm Lake school district had one of the largest percentage-wise enrollment increases of any district in the state. The ...
Funeral service 11:00 Friday at First Presbyterian Church, Battle Creek. Visitation 9:00-11:00 Friday at the church. Arrangem...
The Storm Lake school board has approved the language in sharing contracts following the completion of a series of sharing co...
The principal of the Storm Lake Middle School will be retiring after the current school year. Wednesday night, the school boa...
This is only a test.There are no schools running late today.The weather is perfect for the first day of winterHappy Holidays ...
Storm Lake Elementary School has won a "2011 Sharing The Dream Grant" from the National Association of Elementary S...
(Alison Buechler and Aaron Fitzgerald)Two senior vocal recitals will be presented in completion of the requirements for music...
Funeral service 10:30 Saturday at First Presbyterian Church, Battle Creek. Visitation 4:00-8:00 Friday at Christensen-Huffman...
Some students at the Storm Lake High School Wednesday raced model cars powered by mousetraps. Science teacher Jay Grimes gave...
The Storm Lake school board meets in special session Wednesday evening. The board will hear an update on hiring an auditorium...
Buena Vista University’s Graduate and Professional Studies is adding a new endorsement for educators seeking additional...
Thanks to the Storm Lake Sugar Bowl Gift Shop and a group of friends, students at St. Mary’s School are enjoying more r...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s Student Council organized a collection for the Operation Christmas Child Project. Students in cl...
It may be time to hire a consultant to help determine what type of auditorium is needed for the Storm Lake schools. An audito...
Higher enrollment in the Storm Lake schools could mean an increased spending authority. This week, the school board approved ...
Parent-teacher conferences were successful this fall in Storm Lake schools… with participation ranging from 69-percent...
Storm Lake Schools saw an increase in students of 71 from last year to this year. Superintendent Doctor Carl Turner this week...
Possible uses of Storm Lake’s South School were discussed at a Citizen Advisory Committee meeting last week… and...
The 41st Annual Retirement Dinner was held Tuesday at the Storm Lake Elementary School. This was a Thanksgiving dinner provid...
Last Friday, the Begindergarten classroom at Storm Lake’s East Early Childhood Center taught by Val Hogrefe, had a spec...
The Storm Lake school board has approved extending the Instructional Support Levy. The levy expires at the end of the current...
The KAYL/KKIA offices have moved… beginning Monday November 14th the offices for the radio stations are open at our ne...
Friday morning, the Storm Lake High School Band filled the front of the Hy-Vee store in Storm Lake to perform for some vetera...
Thursday, November 10th, all of the middle school students were bussed to South Auditorium to watch the dress rehearsal of Mu...
Monday's ResultsFOOTBALLIowa PlayoffsCLASS 3A QUARTERFINALSHarlan 28, Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley 7Decorah 24, West Delaware 14Un...
Memorial service 10:30 Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church, Battle Creek. Visitation 6:30-8:00 Monday at the church. Arrange...
(St. Mary’s vocal students :front row – Katie Lenhart, Emily Heitman and Zach Lenhart. Back row – Emily Ive...
Funeral service 10:30 Wednesday at the East Sac County High School gym in Lake View. Visitation 5:00-9:00 Tuesday at the scho...
The Storm Lake Community School District recently concluded their second round of the certified enrollment process, and deter...
Becky Morton (left) with TLC, Angie Woodford (right), joined by Monsantorep Harlan Matasovsky (middle), and students from TLC...
Storm Lake Saint Mary’s eighth grade student Marie Hardt was selected to play clarinet with the 44th annual Northwest I...
On Wednesday, students at the Storm Lake Middle School attended a Rock in Prevention assembly. At the assembly, the students...
A Newell church… planning a new building in Storm Lake… has requested rental of space in South School. Superint...
Rick Dalzell, retired Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Amazon.com from 1997 - 2007 visited with the Sto...
The Storm Lake school board holds their regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening. The school board will discuss the instruct...
The Storm Lake school auditorium planning committee Thursday night considered pros and cons of possible locations for a new p...
The kindergartners from Storm Lake Elementary School made visits to the Storm Lake Fire Station this week. As the students a...
The Jacksonville Jaguars today signed former Northern Iowa tight end Schuylar Oordt to their practice squad.Oordt signed with...
The Storm Lake Middle School's Tornado Learning Club will be hosting a "Lights On After School" fall event on Thurs...
The Storm Lake Community School District got involved in the Start Somewhere Walk on Friday. SL Middle School students walk o...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s preK-12 students braved the wind advisories and participated in the October 7 Start Somewhere Wal...
At the Storm Lake High School on Thursday, October 6th the halls and classrooms were filled with pink t-shirts with "Spi...
Rezoning of the former North School property has been given final approval. In August, the Storm Lake school board accepted a...
A committee formed to make recommendations to the Storm Lake school board on a performing arts theater held its first meeting...
(photo from Storm Lake Community Schools website) The new superintendent of Storm Lake Schools, Dr. Carl Turner, says he has ...
The Storm Lake High School Homecoming Coronation and Pep Rally was Thursday evening in the Tornado gym. Azucena Bravo was cro...
It will be a night of trick hoopz, alley-oops and more, as the Harlem Wizards professional entertainment basketball team will...
A committee is being formed to explore a performance auditorium for the Storm Lake schools. Superintendent Doctor Carl Turner...
The Alta Aurelia School Board met on Monday, and Superintendent Dr. Lynn Evans said that the high school renovation process i...
Storm Lake is seeking a grant to improve pedestrian and bike routes to local schools. City clerk Justin Yarosevich says the c...
Buena Vista University (BVU) has announced that Dan Hegarty and Mike Porsch will be the co-chairs for its 2011 Community Camp...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s High School boys’ basketball coach, Brad Wilkening, was named the recipient of the 2011 Msg...
A Storm Lake teen was arrested after police Thursday afternoon investigated a report that a student at the Storm Lake High Sc...
An instructional support levy for East Sac County Schoolswas easily approved by the publicon Tuesday. Steve Spotts has been a...
Buena Vista University has been named a top school in the U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2012...
Buena Vista University has started the fall semester with 25-hundred-96 students enrolled at the Storm Lake campus and its Gr...
Buena Vista University has been named a top school inthe "U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges2012...
Tuesday is school board election day in Iowa… with polls open from noon until 8:00 p.m. In the Storm Lake district, th...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s social studies educator Brad Wilkening has been named a Sendler Fellow for the Illinois Holocaust...
(Pictured from left to right...School Resource Officer JohnBauer,essay winner Megan McDaniel, and pilot MikeReinert) The Stor...
Buena Vista University is one of ten Iowa colleges selected as sites for the AmeriCorps Program for the 2011-12 academic year...
It's business as usual this year at the Storm Lake HighSchool. The new assistant principal is Jeff Tollefson, whosays his new...
Saint Mary’s School in Storm Lake received 25 gently-used computer hard-drives for the elementary computer lab from Met...
The Storm Lake school board will meet in special session Friday morning to discuss selling a portion of the South School prop...
(Pictured are representatives from St. Mary’s first through third grades (front) and in the back preK-6 Principal Bev M...
Storm Lake Elementary ushered in the new school yearwith "Welcome Back Conferences" on August 18th and 19th. Elemen...
St. Mary's longtime math educator Diane Frank will be receiving an Excellence in Education Award at the fifteenth annual &ldq...
The Storm Lake Schools remain on the District In Need of Assistance list… but progress is being made. Superintendent D...
Lundell Construction brought several loads of pea gravel for the Storm Lake St. Mary’s School playground this week. St...
School is back in session, and that means alot is going on at EarlyChildhood Development in Storm Lake. One thing new is the ...
(from left to right...Phil Burk ~ Pioneer Account Manager, Brent Brown ~ Pioneer Sales Rep, Melanie Bloom ~ Sioux Central FFA...
The Storm Lake school board has approved a sharing agreement with the Newell-Fonda district. Last week, Superintendent Doctor...
A large number of Storm Lake elementary students took advantage of summer school in June. Elementary principal Juli Kwikkel s...
The Storm Lake school district and the city have reached an agreement to share a librarian. Superintendent Doctor Carl Turner...
A Storm Lake organization is distributing school supplies Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Lucas Koster of The Bridge s...
The Storm Lake school board will open bids Thursday evening for the sale of the North Elementary School property. The board w...
Each August, Storm Lake United hosts a New Teachers’ Luncheon to welcome the New Teachers at Storm Lake Public, St. Mar...
The Rebel FFA Parents and Alumni group and the Sioux Central FFA Chapter will be hosting an informal barbecue on Monday Augus...
(Gus Loving, Tanner Lindquist, Shena Geisinger, Austin Heuertz, Mariah Orwig, Mickenzie Nelson, Maggie Patterson, Chris Ripke...
The sixth Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute begins Sunday at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory on West Lake Okoboji. Thirty-two s...
(Bloom reviews data collected by participants in lab activities and discusses classroom applications...more pics below)Melani...
Buena Vista University will hold its 34th annual Founders' Day program on August 27th at Schaller Memorial Chapel to honor ei...
(Classroom discussions were separated into grades 1 and 2, 3 and 4, and 5 and 6 for the day sessions. Discussions were led by...
The Storm Lake school board needs to start over on the sale of a portion of the South School property. The Storm Lake United ...
The Storm Lake Tornado Baseball Team will be playing in the State Baseball Tournament at Principal Park in Des Moines on Tues...
The Storm Lake School Board has voted to continue the district’s membership in the Iowa Association of School Boards&he...
The Storm Lake school board will hold their regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening. The board will hold a public hearing o...
Buena Vista University Summer Music Camps for 2011 are still accepting students.Application forms can be found on the BVU Web...
A Buena Vista County native will become the chairman of the Iowa State University Department of Agricultural and Biosystems E...
Seven students and two other people connected with Buena Vista University will be honored with Governor’s Volunteer Awa...
Austin Demers… a junior at Saint Mary's High School in Storm Lake… has been named a Herbert Hoover Uncommon Stu...
Buena Vista County Relay For Life, held Friday evening at the Storm Lake High School Football Stadium.
Meal prices will be going up 50-cents for Storm Lake students this fall. This week, the school board approved that increase, ...
A Storm Lake High School graduating senior has been honored as a “June Superstar” in the AVID program. Lourdes Ar...
The Storm Lake schools mentoring program will be joining the Teammates Mentoring Program, based in Lincoln, Nebraksa. Teammat...
Ground has been broken on construction of the new weight room in Newell, which was reported at the Newell Fonda school board ...
The Storm Lake School Board holds their regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening. The board will accept plans for an additio...
The Alta School Board, at their meeting Monday night, approved a sharing agreement between the Buena Vista Community Theater ...
The photos are picturing the individuals from Storm Lake who went to the Sioux City area last Friday to help sandbag. The gro...
The Tornado Learning ClubAlong with theIowa Department of Natural Resources AnnouncesFishing and Aquatics Education ProgramJu...
The 11th annual Education for Service award was presented to Joan Hakes during Buena Vista University’s Faculty/Staff R...
Kirsten Bielen, a Buena Vista University (BVU) sophomore elementary education major from Redwood Falls, Minn., was named a Ne...
All Buena Vista University baseball games at the College World Series in Wisconsin will be broadcast on 97.5FMKBVU starting w...
Dr. Wind Goodfriend is the 25th recipient of the prestigious George Wythe Award, an annual award given by Buena Vista Univers...
Four Buena Vista University (BVU) faculty members who have been selected as McCorkle Fellows left May 23 on a two-week trip t...
Storm Lake Public Safety Department hosted their St. Mary’s Partners in Excellence (PIE) class to a hot dog cookout las...
The Board of Directors of the Iowa Girls’ High School Athletic Union has voted unanimously to expand to five classes in...
The Buena Vista University Baseball team overcame a 5-0 1st inning deficit to defeat Carthage College 7-6 on Saturday in the ...
Students from Storm Lake High School and Estherville Lincoln Central High School have spent the last few months gathering inf...
The Storm Lake school board this week approved a budget amendment for the current fiscal year. Superintendent Doctor Paul Ted...
Two teachers will be added at the Storm Lake elementary school for this fall due to increases in enrollment. The school board...
The final project to replace portions of the Storm Lake High School roof will be completed this summer. This week, the school...
The Storm Lake High School will have a new assistant principal this fall… but he’s no stranger to the school. Tu...
For the fourth year, Buena Vista University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor ...
The Storm Lake School Board Tuesday night approved the master teacher contract and the contract for custodians… along ...
St. Mary’s High School 2011 graduate Joshua Weber has been named recipient of the 2011 Pigott-Bair Loan Program with an...
The Storm Lake school board is holding its regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening. The board will hold public hearings on a...
Six Buena Vista University (BVU) students will get the chance of a lifetime to interact in person with former British Prime M...
Sioux Central FFA Senior Austin Ehlers has been selected for a $1,000 Scholarship from Tyson Foods, Inc, through the Nati...
Buena Vista University’s “BV Buddies” program recently received a $1,000 grant from the Alliant Energy ...
The Alta School Board approved the purchase of 11 new laptop computers at their meeting this week. The laptops have already b...
The Newell Fonda School Board agreed to allow a committeeadditional time to find new uses for the old middle school building ...
Sophomore Isaac Richter assists elementary students in planting their tree.Junior Jared Hanson and his group of students remo...
St. Mary’s third grade students Emmett Smith and Perla Arreguin were chosen to crown a statue of St. Mary as part of Th...
A documentary and a romantic comedy produced by Buena Vista University (BVU) students took top honors at the 20th Annual Iowa...
Sioux Central High School is ranked 15th among Iowa high schools in the seventh annual Iowa Advanced Placement Index, conduct...
Storm Lake Police are investigating bomb threats that occurred today at the Storm Lake High School and Middle School. Storm ...
A bomb threat was received at the Storm Lake High School shortly before one o’clock Wednesday afternoon. The high schoo...
Buena Vista University will hold Commencement ceremonies beginning at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 21 in Siebens Fieldhouse.Altoge...
Buena Vista University honored over 250 students for outstanding accomplishment in both academics and leadership at the annua...
A Storm Lake high school student has been charged after being found consuming alcohol at the high school building. Storm Lake...
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The East Sac County School Board has adopted a policy preventing administrators from also being coaches or taking other emplo...
The Storm Lake school board Wednesday morning approved new computer labs and computers for teachers at the high school. Last ...
A full-time instructional strategist has been approved for next school year at the Storm Lake Middle School. The school board...
Fourteen St. Mary’s High School National Honor Society and Student Council members braved the cold temperatures and wor...
Buenafication Day… the annual day of service and fun at Buena Vista University… will be held April 28th. Class...
About 650 Storm Lake Public students in grades seven to 12 will be leaving school around 8:15 Monday morning to help with Tor...
The Buena Vista softball team returned to Iowa Conference play on Sunday afternoon, but came up short in a pair of games agai...
David Pedersen presented a team poster to Imming and Nielsen with Lincoln Wells and Connor Richardson in back making the anno...
Storm Lake School District’s board secretary and business manager has been recognized by her peers around the state. Tr...
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley met with four western Iowa students during their trip this month to Washington, D.C. Grassley met...
Storm Lake High School and Middle School students will help clean up tornado debris in area farm fields next week. High schoo...
The Storm Lake school board has approved a 47-thousand dollar purchase for wireless connectivity at the High School… b...
The Storm Lake school board Thursday night accepted a bid to have North and West Schools demolished. Superintendent Paul Tede...
The Storm Lake school board will form a committee to study sharing with other districts. Storm Lake shares certain athletic a...
Several Storm Lake High School students won awards in an art competition at Buena Vista University. Storm Lake senior Madison...
Students from several high schools have spent the past couple of days helping tornado victims in area counties. Over 900 stud...
The Storm Lake school board will hold a public hearing Thursday evening on the proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning ...
St. Mary’s High School Student Council president Jake Larson was presented a check for $500 from the Iowa Farm Bureau b...
Wednesday, students of the East Sac Community Schools will team with the students of Ridge View Middle and High School to off...
Newell Fonda and Alta Aurelia students are coming togetherTuesdaymorning to help in cleaning up after last weekend's tornado ...
The assistant superintendent in LeMars will become the new Storm Lake superintendent. The Storm Lake school board made that ...
This fall, every Storm Lake student at Buena Vista University will receive an Apple iPad 2 along with a laptop. A pilot prog...
Buena Vista University will host its third Beavers’ Annual Great Boat Float Challenge on Thursday, April 28, on the wes...
St. Mary’s School’s top sixth grade math students competed in the annual AEA 8 Math Bee in Storm Lake March 29. M...
The Storm Lake School Board has added an additional candidate to consider for school superintendent. On Wednesday night, the ...
St. Mary’s Preschool students start their day with singing and movements that go with each song that they learn.One of ...
Photo : St. Mary’s DARE graduates with Officer Bauer, speaker Dr. Troy Ivey and educators Jess Biede and Gaylene Kestel...
Buena Vista University will host its eleventh annual Cultural Leadership Conference April 7-10. The conference offers high sc...
The Storm Lake school district’s building trade class house has been sold. Wednesday night, the school board accepted t...
St. Mary’s High School Mock Trial team competed in the regional mock trial competition in Mason City recently and had t...
Two Storm Lake middle school students were expelled for the remainder of this school year as a result of expulsion hearings w...
AWOL students in Washington DC. Check out BVU's blogs at www.bvu.edu/bloggers Every spring, many Buena Vista University stude...
St. Mary’s Elementary School students participated in a Saints Museum last week. The students chose a saint to study, t...
Pocahontas Area Pomeroy Palmer's mock trial teams will be competing at state this Thursday and Friday, March 24th and 25th. O...
Kindergarten and pre-school roundup is Tuesday in the Newell-Fonda school district. Superintendent Jeff Dicks says the come-a...
The Storm Lake school district… and the other districts in Buena Vista County… are developing vocational high s...
A public screening of the documentary, "High School Music Trip : A World Performance," will be on Sunday March 20th...
St. Mary’s High School Student Council members presented a check for $425 to Brad Strader and Maggie Martinez of Buena ...
The Alta Board of Education held their monthly meeting Wednesday night. Superintendent Dr. Fred Maharry said that they are ma...
A Storm Lake girl has been charged in connection with an assault Tuesday afternoon at the Storm Lake High School. Police were...
The first group of AVID students at the Storm Lake High School are graduating this spring… and principal Beau Ruleaux ...
Some students at Buena Vista University are trying to help increase participation in music programs in the Storm Lake Public ...
Several improvement projects for Storm Lake schools have been approved by the school board. The board has approved seeking bi...
Fees for the after school programs at the Storm Lake elementary and middle schools have been approved for next school year. T...
The school calendar for this coming year has been approved by the Storm Lake school board. The first day of school will be Au...
A number of hunter education courses are scheduled across the state over the next few weeks for prospective turkey hunters to...
A public hearing on plans for demolishing North and West Elementary Schools was held Thursday night by the Storm Lake school ...
The Storm Lake school board is holding its monthly meeting Thursday evening. The board will hold a public hearing on plans to...
Eight students will be representing Buena Vista University’s Student MOVE program at the national IMPACT conference in ...
Two Storm Lake high school students were charged after police Monday afternoon investigated a report of students allegedly sm...
St. Mary’s School educators are utilizing two new projectors and document cameras donated by the Sugar Bowl Gift Shop. ...
Several students have been expelled from Storm Lake school in connection with bomb threats at the Middle School last week. Th...
Bottom L to R-Kylie Peterson, Kayla Hartmann, Ashley Corbet, Aaron Fitzgerald. Top L to R-John Killpack, Alex Marcel, Megan A...
Several area students are receiving scholarships from the Iowa Corn Growers Association. The association is giving ten, 500-d...
The Storm Lake school district has dealt with a disturbing string of bomb threats,including two consecutive days, last Thursd...
Due to the recent series of bomb threats, the Storm Lake Middle School has put some new safety procedures into effect. Middle...
The Storm Lake Middle School received a bomb threat for the second straight day today. The administration was made aware of t...
The Storm Lake Middle School received a bomb threat for the second straight day today. The administration was made aware of t...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s School has just a few more weeks to sell the remaining Big Raffle tickets to enable a supporter t...
Two arrests were made Thursday at the Storm Lake Middle School. According to police, a report was received Thursday morning o...
Alert Message has been issued by the Storm Lake Public Safety.Friday February 25, 2011 8:10 AM CSTStorm Lake Public Safety if...
About 12:20 Thursday afternoon, the Storm Lake Public Safety Department was dispatched to the Storm Lake Middle School to inv...
Buena Vista University has announced a 3.5 percent increase in tuition at its Storm Lake campus for the 2011-12 academic year...
The Storm Lake school board has approved proceeding with new technology purchases. The board has approved spending about 78-t...
Fees are being considered for the after school programs at the Storm Lake elementary and middle schools. Thursday night, supe...
Recipients of the Clifford A. Rae Academic Achievement Award at Buena Vista University for the 2010-11 academic year are, fro...
Plans for demolishing North and West Elementary Schools were approved Thursday night by the Storm Lake school board. Superint...
The Alta Board of Education discussed the whole grade sharing progress with Aurelia during their board of education meeting W...
The Storm Lake school board is expected Thursday evening to approve plans for the demolition of North and West Elementary Sch...
The first event of a semester-long project to encourage Storm Lake high school girls to consider careers in science, technolo...
The Storm Lake Police and Fire Departments were called to the Storm Lake Middle Schoolthis afternoon just after one o’ ...
The Storm Lake Police and Fire Departments were called to the Storm Lake Middle Schoolthis afternoon just after one o’ ...
Two area school districts have entered talks into the possible sharing of various administrators, staff members and some teac...
The Aurelia High School was one of 40 schools who recently compete in the 21st annual Ames Laboratory/Iowa State University R...
Voters in the Pocahontas and Pomeroy-Palmer school districts Tuesday overwhelmingly approved merging the districts. Approval ...
Eleven Storm Lake Middle School students were arrested Monday after police investigated a fight at the school. According to p...
Storm Lake St. Mary’s School will be celebrating National Catholic Schools Week January 29-February 4 with activities i...
Students at the Storm Lake Elementary School will be taking Iowa Tests of Basic Skills this week. Reading strategist Michelle...
Emily Mohr, Anyssa Lenhart, Angela Duitsman of Genesis, Jake Larson, Jasmine Demers and Cassie Todd.St. Mary’s Student ...
The University of Iowa says 12 football players have been hospitalized for symptoms likely related to offseason workouts.The ...
The Storm Lake Elementary School is embedding the Character Counts program into their classes starting with the second half o...
The Newell-Fonda school district was one of the first in Iowa to have a one-to-one computer program for high school students&...
Cory Mickelson and mentee, KristinaA December graduate of Buena Vista University will be recognized by the State of Iowa for ...
The Alta and Aurelia school boards have announced their new superintendent, beginning next school year. The two schools are b...
Seventh grade Storm Lake Middle School students in Karen Hixon’s science class have created a website on the tall grass...
Although 60 new laptops are needed for teachers at the Storm Lake High School, the school board this week voted down purchasi...
School districts around the state are taking steps to help the growing number of children whose family incomes are declining ...
An At-Risk Dropout Prevention Coordinator has been hired for the Storm Lake High School. This week, the school board approved...
The Storm Lake High School has been identified as a persistently low-achieving school. Superintendent Paul Tedesco says the d...
The Storm Lake City Council has approved an engineering contract for replacing two tennis courts at the Storm Lake High Schoo...
Storm Lake school superintendent Doctor Paul Tedesco has resigned to accept a position in Nebraska. Monday night, the school ...
The Storm Lake School Board will hold their regular monthly meeting Monday at a different location. The meeting will be held ...
More accolades for Iowa Lakes Community College's Wind Energy and Turbine Technology program. ILCC is among the first few col...
The Storm Lake Connections Mentoring Program is celebratingNational Mentoring Month during January. This is the seventh year ...
SM HOMECOMING TO “ELIMINATE THE WARRIORS” “Eliminate the Warriors” is the 2011 St. Mary’s High ...
High School Girls:Spencer - 70StormLake - 14Alta-Aurelia - 66Laurens Marathon - 21South Central Calhoun - 58East Sac County -...
BVRMC Foundation Director Brad Strader, Grant Turner, Rachael Reicks, Michael Dirkx, BVRMC CEO Todd Hudspeth Three Buena Vist...
The Storm Lake school district… and the other districts in Buena Vista County… have been successful in getting ...
Memorial service 10:30 Friday at First Presbyterian Church, Battle Creek. Visitation 5:00-7:00 Thursday at Christensen-Huffma...
St. Mary’s High School students David Pedersen, Dillan Smith, Anyssa Lenhart and Alyssa Drey show off some of the 20 ne...
“Saturday, January 8, 2011 has been set as the annual Take A Kid to the Game day event at the Buena Vista University wo...
St. Mary’s High School Sophomore Alex Larson helps Anna McDaniel with her Christmas shopping at last weekend’s Sa...
The Storm Lake Public Safety Departments escorted a special guest to their Partners in Excellence class Monday. Fire fighters...
A Storm Lake Middle School student was charged with a felony after police on Friday investigated a threat. According to polic...
Additional staffing and computer needs are being considered by the Storm Lake school board. Superintendent Doctor Paul Tedesc...
An arrest has been made as Storm Lake Police continue investigating a bomb threat made Tuesday morning at the Storm Lake High...
Storm Lake Middle School students are receiving needed help in reading and math during the after-school Tornado Learning Club...
The Storm Lake school district hopes to have an “at-risk dropout prevention coordinator” in place at the high sch...
A bomb threat was made at the Storm Lake High School Tuesday morning. Storm Lake public safety director Mark Prosser says the...
The Storm Lake school board will hold its regular monthly meeting Wednesday evening. The board is expected to discuss plans f...
Two financial aid meetings will be held at the Storm Lake High School for seniors and their parents on Monday December 6th in...
The public is welcome to attend Storm Lake St. Mary’s Athletic Boosters Tailgate Supper Friday, Dec. 3 in the school ca...
St. Mary’s Middle School Mock Trial Team accepts the Judge Anthony Critelli Award for Professional Conduct and Decorum ...
Ashley Farmer-Hansen, director of community service at BVUDustin Killpack Dustin Killpack, a senior from Logan, Iowa, double ...
St. Mary’s middle school students Hailey Hartman, Olivia Schaller, Will Hurd, Dane Lenhart and Jake Sherlock help pack ...
Students who open enroll either in to or out of the Storm Lake school district have increased over the past five years. Accor...
There was a good turn-out for the recently held parent-teacher conferences in Storm Lake schools. Elementary dean of students...
The Storm Lake school district completed several improvement projects last summer… but only a fraction of the needs id...
Tearing down two no longer used Storm Lake school buildings could happen next spring. Monday night, the school board approved...
The Storm Lake school board meets in regular session Monday evening. Included on the agenda, several personnel items, discuss...
Seventeen science students from Buena Vista University joined over 1,000 volunteers in helping toprovide free dental care too...
St. Mary’s School Athletic Boosters are hosting a Meet the Team Night and meal Sunday, Nov. 21 starting at 5 p.m. at th...
St. Mary’s School students shattered their goal of raising $750 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society with a Pennies fo...
The Alta School Board held their regular monthly meeting Tuesday night. Superintendent Fred Maharry said that they are contin...
Friday afternoon Nov 5th and Saturday Nov 6th the Storm Lake High School Wrestlers will be offering their services raking law...
The University of Iowa has told the NCAA the school allowed two basketball recruits to meet celebrity Hawkeye fans Ashton Kut...
Funeral service 10:30 Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church, Battle Creek. Visitation 5:00-8:00 Tuesday at Christensen-Huffm...
The Storm Lake school district has the second highest tax rate among Lakes Conference schools… and the highest in Buen...
St. Mary’s seventh grade student Marie Hardt has been chosen to perform with the 43rd annual Northwest Iowa Junior High...
A new e-mail policy is being developed for Storm Lake school students.District technology coordinator Sarah Freking says e-ma...
The Storm Lake school district is making an effort to use environmentally-safe cleaning products. The legislature this year p...
Storm Lake students have early dismissal one day a month so district teachers can receive professional development. Curriculu...
Buena Vista University has announcedtwosignificant gifts that will have an impact on academic programs and campus athletic fa...
The Storm Lake school district hopes to add to the staff to help at-risk students. Superintendent Doctor Paul Tedesco this we...
The Storm Lake school board Wednesday night gave final approval to a contract to have asbestos removed from the North and Wes...
The Storm Lake school board’s monthly meeting is Wednesday evening. The board is expected to award an asbestos removal ...
The Newell-Fonda school district is hosting nearly 500 educators from 38 schools across Iowa Wednesday for a technology-based...
Constitutional Scholar Don Fotheringham will present "How We Got Into This Mess and How To Get Out Of It" Wednesday...
Buena Vista University has announced two philanthropic gift pledges that will have a one-point-one million dollar impact in p...
St. Mary’s School held a pet blessing Thursday afternoon in honor of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Students in Ki...
Alta students will be collecting cans Thursday October 8 from 9 am until noon. All cans collected will go towards the Sipple ...
An 11-year-old boy was arrested after allegedly threatening a teacher at the Storm Lake Middle School Tuesday afternoon. Acco...
Mike Kohler and Molly Wilson, owners of the Sugar Bowl Gift Shop, presented a check for $2,000 to St. Mary’s Student Co...
The SHARE High School Exchange Program needs 15 more host families in Iowa to host an exchange student beginning in January. ...
9/24/10at Pella, Iowa (Central College Invite)Central College 3Buena Vista 1Rockford (Ill) 0Buena Vista 3BVU is now 6-8 overa...
ISU Extension in Buena Vista county is looking for families to participate in a free nutrition program, designed to teach peo...
An omelet breakfast and silent auction will be held Sunday September 26th from 8am to noon at the Storm Lake KC Hall. $5 per ...
Tickets are now on sale for the 2010 Bishop’s Dinner for Catholic Education which will be held Sunday, Oct. 10 at 4:30 ...
Storm Lake High School Class of 65 will celebrate their 45th reunion Friday and Saturday October 1st and 2nd. Friends, family...
CPRTraining will be held Wednesday October 13, 6-10 pm in the Center For Women at BVRMC in Storm Lake.
An agreement has been reached between the city of Storm Lake and the Storm Lake school district over development costs associ...
Bariatric Support Group will meet Tuesday October 12, 6 pm in the Kallmer Education Center at BVRMC in Storm Lake.
Caregiver's Support Group will meet Monday October 11, noon, in the Kallmer Education Center at BVRMC in Storm Lake.
Alta Community Library Story Time will be held Tuesday September 28, 5:30 PM with the FFA of Alta High School presenting a pr...
Welcome Back conferences worked well this year at the Storm Lake elementary school. Principal Juli Kwikkel says the meetings ...
The Storm Lake school board this week approved the final payments to contractors for the elementary school. Last month, the b...
SOS FOR TEACHERS – The SOS Thrift Store Board and volunteers came to St. Mary’s School last week bearing gifts fo...
A plan by a local organization to take over the now-closed North Elementary School for a community center was rejected Wednes...
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Mary Rose and Wendy submit their pumpkin carving entry for the St. Mary's High School Class of the Year competition.