Home Remodeling

Open house set for LCS additions, renovation (09/30/08)
An open house at the Le Mars Community Middle and High Schools will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2. The open house provides the public an opportunity to tour the new middle school gymnasium, the three new technology enhanced classrooms at the high school, and the renovations that were completed in the high school following the move of the superintendent's office...

Supervisors delay decision to repair floors at Pride Group home (09/17/08)
The Plymouth County Supervisors put the matter of restroom floor repairs at a residential facility operated by Pride Group Inc. on hold Tuesday. The supervisors directed Mike Porter, CEO of Pride Group, to obtain a firm cost estimate to fix floors in four showers and two bathrooms at the residential care facility (RCF) on Highway 3...

Users need to protect computers against security threats (08/29/08)
Experts say there are no foolproof methods to keep home or corporate computers safe from security breaches, but taking precautions helps deter attackers. "The best practice is to keep everything up to date, anti-virus and anti-Spyware programs, and use it (computer) responsibly," said Jerry Christiansen, owner of Computer Crossing. "That's not a hundred percent guarantee that it won't get hit with something, but it does decrease the odds."...

Dave Grosenheider is fair's 2008 Hall of Fame inductee (07/31/08)
The Plymouth County Fair's 2008 Hall of Fame award recipient wasn't listening as fair board president Terry Reuter began his presentation on the opening night of the fair. He soon perked up as Reuter mentioned KLEM in his talk. Dave Grosenheider, director of sales for Powell Broadcasting, was presented with the Hall of Fame award at Century Hall, preceding the royalty coronation which he was preparing to emcee. Radio station KLEM in Le Mars is a part of the Powell group...

Locals find garden oddities (07/30/08)
There's always a little mystery in gardening -- watching black earth give way to thriving vines and leafy rows of vegetables. But some gardens have a little more of the unusual to offer. Take Angela Von Hagel, for example. When the Brunsville woman went out to her garden last month and checked on her potatoes, she had a surprise waiting for her...

Geiger house retains Italianate look despite remodeling (05/06/08)
Editor's Note: This is the second in a series featuring the stops on Le Mars' annual Tour of Historic Homes. A beautiful Italianate home, much remodeled for today's lifestyle but still retaining characteristics of its beginning, is one of four homes in the Foster Park area in the 2008 Tour of Historic Homes set for Saturday, May 10 in Le Mars. The tour is sponsored by the Le Mars Historical Preservation Commission...