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County construction means less LOST money for grants (02/16/10)
The Plymouth County Supervisors set aside $100,000 in Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) money in their proposed budget to be used for grant requests. That's $80,000 less than last year -- but the county has two new major construction projects to pay for with LOST revenue in the next fiscal year...

Hotel/motel tax dollars may boost fairgrounds, chalk festival (02/03/10)
Twelve local agencies and organizations and the city are likely to be the beneficiaries of $36,033 in local option Hotel/Motel Sales Tax dollars this year. The Le Mars City Council received the requests for annual allocations of the sales tax revenue from the Hotel/Motel Sales Tax Advisory Board at its Tuesday session...

Bohnenkamp appointed to LOST board (01/21/10)
The final seat on the Local Option Sales Tax Advisory Board was filled Tuesday. The Plymouth County Board of Supervisors appointed Lynn Bohnenkamp, of Le Mars, to the District 1 seat of the board, which had previously been left open with no applicants to fill it...

Applications available for CVB Hotel/Motel Sales Tax grants (11/02/09)
Applications for approximately $40,000 in Le Mars Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) Hotel/Motel Sales Tax funding will be available beginning Monday, Nov 16. Applications will be available online at lemarsiowa.com or at the Le Mars City Hall during regular business hours...

Le Mars LOST dollars: All tied up at the moment (09/18/09)
Local Option Sales Tax spending is on pause for the city of Le Mars. Of the nearly $13 million in revenue from the one-penny sales tax projected to come into the city by 2016, $2 million has not yet been spent or committed to projects. "If the (Le Mars City) Council awards any more LOST dollars, it will delay payment of projects or the prepayment of loans," Assistant City Administrator Bill Cole said...

Feds shut down Vantus Bank, Missouri bank acquires deposits (09/09/09)

Sales Tax Holiday this weekend (08/07/09)
Time for back-to-school shopping. The 10th annual Iowa Sales Tax Holiday runs today (Friday) and Saturday. Qualifying clothing or footwear with a selling price of less than $100 will be exempt from sales and local option tax. Businesses open on these days and sell qualifying items are required to participate...

Iowa Sales Tax Holiday August 7-8 (08/04/09)
The 10th annual Iowa Sales Tax Holiday will be held Friday and Saturday, August 7 and 8. Qualifying clothing or footwear with a selling price of less than $100 will be exempt from sales and local option tax. The holiday does not include Sunday. Businesses open on these days and sell qualifying items are required to participate...

Ethanol plant garners grain dealer license (06/16/09)
Plymouth Energy is back in the grain dealing business. On June 10, Plymouth Energy Grain, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Plymouth Energy, obtained a grain dealer license, which gives it the ability to purchase corn for the Plymouth Energy ethanol plant just north of Merrill...

Motor Inn to continue -- minus Chrysler dealership (05/15/09)
The auto industry's turmoil is rearing its head in Le Mars. A local Chrysler auto dealership is one of 789 on a list to be cut in the automaker's bankruptcy dealings. Motor Inn of Le Mars will no longer sell new Chrysler brand vehicles starting early next month, but the decision won't be final until a judge approves the cuts...

Newspaper added to Daily Sentinel's parent company (03/12/09)
The Le Mars Daily Sentinel's newspaper family is growing. Rust Communications, the Missouri-based media company which owns the Daily Sentinel, acquired The Monett Times and the Monett Shopper in Missouri from Cleveland Newspapers, Inc. The change in ownership was announced this month...

Officials say booster clubs free to donate (01/23/09)
The booster clubs that support both the athletics and music at Le Mars Community Schools have faced some criticism recently about where they made donations. Dollars from both groups were used to help pay for flyers and other promotional items in favor of the Instructional Support Levy (ISL)...

Milk by any other name... Dean Foods heads into logo change (01/12/09)
The bunny is disappearing from the milk coolers in the grocery stores. Blue Bunny logos on milk and cultured dairy products from the Le Mars milk plant are being phased out. Dean Foods purchased the milk plant in January 2008 from Wells' Dairy, Inc. Wells' Dairy officials chose not to sell the Blue Bunny logo, however...

A year to remember: Top stories of 2008 (12/30/08)
Editor's note: This is the first of two stories recapping 2008's top stories in the Daily Sentinel. 10. O'Keefe stabs, kills a man A butcher knife to the chest led to the death of Sam Toliver, 32, Jan. 24, 2008. Jody O'Keefe, 35, most recently of Le Mars, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and other charges and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. ...

Golf course manager commended for staying in black (12/18/08)
The Le Mars City Council had praise and a raise for Willow Creek Golf Course Manager Doug Schultz during their Tuesday meeting. The city council approved a new two-year contract with Schultz, who has managed the course for some 20 years. The contract includes a 2 percent base raise for 2009, bringing the base compensation to $132,863, and another 2 percent base raise for 2010, brining the total to $135,520...

City accepts partial Harker's debt payment (11/07/08)
Harker's Distribution, Inc. officials will pay a lump sum to the City of Le Mars to free up the mortgage on a piece of its property to sell to developers of a truck wash and care facility. The Le Mars City Council, following a closed session Tuesday, agreed to accept $60,000 from Harker's Distribution Inc. as partial payment on its nearly $300,000 debt to the city...

Public can speak on Girls Inc. bonds (10/02/08)
Girls Inc. received permission from Plymouth County supervisors in June to route $5.1 million in revenue bounds through the county to build a new center in Sioux City. The supervisors Tuesday scheduled a 10 a.m. Nov. 4 public hearing, which will be during their regular board meeting, inviting public comments on the agreement with Girls Inc...

Negotiations begin on new Wells' Dairy labor contract (09/22/08)
Negotiations are underway on a contract that impacts about 1,400 hourly manufacturing employees at Wells' Dairy in Le Mars. "A corporate team is sitting down and meeting with an employee team," said Dave Smetter, spokesman for the ice cream and novelty company...

Harker's closes after 100 years in Le Mars (08/27/08)
A century-old Le Mars establishment is folding. Harker's, a food service company that began with a meat market started by George Harker in 1906, will have its last day Friday, according to Harker's president Jim Harker. Cardboard boxes fill the front lawn of the Le Mars corporate headquarters building at 801 Sixth St. S.W...

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