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Facebook safety: Keep predators out and friends in (01/07/10)
If you would have said "I'm going to go check my Facebook" 10 years ago, someone would assume you had a collection of mug shots you needed to thumb through. Fast forward a decade and seemingly everyone is on Facebook, the world's fastest growing social networking website, currently serving more than 350 million people...

Analysis back on Le Mars' downtown: What's hot and what's not (11/19/09)
Editor's note: This story is the first in a pair of stories looking deeper at a recent downtown market analysis led by the Main Street Iowa program. Sometimes the familiar is too close to our face to see it clearly. Results are in on a survey and analysis of downtown Le Mars that aimed to give fresh perspective about its strengths and weaknesses -- and how to use that information to improve...

eBay listing drives man's history hunt to Le Mars (07/13/09)
Mark Jonas fell in love with a car on eBay. It had 31,000 original miles, original paint and original engine. And it was from 1929. The Dousman, Wis. man traveled to Le Mars a few months ago to pick up the car from Lynn Nuebel at Nuebel Chevrolet. Although Jonas first spotted the car on eBay, he later ended up buying it from Nuebel in person...

Republicans redrawn: New Iowa chairman rallies for a sharper, hipper party (06/04/09)
When Matt Strawn spoke about going on the offensive Wednesday in Le Mars, the 35-year-old wasn't talking about the arena league football team he co-owns. He was talking about the Republican party. Strawn, elected chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa in January, sat around a Le Mars Truck Stop table with half a dozen local supporters and discussed how the GOP should emerge from the rubble of its 2008 campaign efforts...

Requests for county LOST grants reach nearly half a million (03/16/09)
Twenty-two Plymouth County groups are putting their name in for money from the $180,000 Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) revenue grant pool. Asking for a total of $431,261, the 21 groups' applications range from buying a Wii exercise DVD -- a kind of interactive video game -- for special needs people to renovation of the Akron Opera House...

This IS your grandma's Internet (03/02/09)
Generations are often defined by what music they love or how they view work. But more and more, young and old are coming together in one place: the Internet. Since 2005, the biggest increase in Internet users was in the 70-75 year-old age group, according to a study by the Pew Internet and American Life project...

Safe on the Internet? Find out how to be (02/09/09)
With e-mail scams and internet predators in recent news, the Le Mars Public Library is offering an adult course on internet security and understanding social networking sites like MySpace. The free course will be held twice from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17 and Tuesday, March 17, in the library's meeting room...

More budget requests on table for supervisors (01/12/09)
Plains Area Mental Health Center and Plymouth County emergency management officials requested increased budgets for 2009-10 Tuesday. Patrick Schmitz, Plains Area Mental Health Center's executive director, presented a 4.8 percent increase to the center's budget. The increase comes from an increase in services offered to county clientele...

2008 in review: Hellos and goodbyes (12/31/08)
Editor's note: This is the second of two stories recapping 2008's top stories in the Daily Sentinel. 5. Iowa begins Smokefree Air Act Indoor smoking, except in people's homes, became a rarity after the Smokefree Air Act went into effect in Iowa July 1. ...

Economic development group on the prowl (12/24/08)
The Northwest Iowa Developers Coalition is putting both feet forward in its efforts to bring economic development to the area. Gary Tucker, Plymouth County's economic development director, shared with the Plymouth County Supervisors Tuesday some of the group's plans for 2009...

Doctors on screen coming to Plains Area (12/23/08)
Wait time to see a psychiatrist or clinician at Plains Area Mental Health Center could be shortened thanks to a new teleconferencing system. It's called Telehealth and it will allow a physician to be in one location while a client is is in another. "By giving us more face-to-face time with a psychiatrist, it should reduce patient wait time, the time it takes to get an appointment," said Patrick Schmitz, Plains Area Mental Health Center's executive director...

Great American Smokeout - an opportunity to quit (11/20/08)
There may be a few less cigarettes lit today. That's because today, Nov. 20, is the 33rd annual Great American Smokeout, a day designated by the American Cancer Society as a time to quit smoking. According to the American Cancer Society, smoking cigarettes tops the list as the most preventable major risk factor of the nation's number one killer --heart and blood vessel disease...

Sen. Harkin suggests alternatives to combat oil prices facing country (08/07/08)
Americans are addicted to oil. Sen. Tom Harkin told Plymouth County residents gathered Wednesday at Lally's Eastside Restaurant that addiction is the reason for the continued increase in oil prices. "When you're addicted to something, you just continue to feed the addiction," Harkin said...

You Docs Podcast: Wear your sunscreen (06/05/08)
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Le Mars United Way awards funding to area agencies (06/03/08)
A teen pregnancy prevention program, meat vouchers for families in need, a fine arts after-school program and addiction recovery services are among 14 projects receiving grant money from the Le Mars United Way this year. Fourteen local agencies will be receiving a total of $58,500 from the nonprofit organization to provide area families with basic needs and services...

Mental health care can be strain on families (05/16/08)
Editor's note: The name of the individual in this story has been changed to protect her identity. May is Mental Health Month Caregivers of those afflicted with mental illness can face challenges. "Julie" knows all about it as she has helped care for a close relative, who has schizophrenia, and also works with people suffering from mental disorders at the Abbey of Le Mars...

Iowans gamble: Jackson recovery can help addicts (03/24/08)
Editor's note: Victim's name has been changed to protect her identity. Statistics show 88 percent of Iowans gamble -- 3 percent of those become problem gamblers. For Sharon, what started as lunchtime social gambling, soon became a daily routine. Her gambling addiction started in July 2006 when she won a jackpot while playing the slot machines at The Argosy Casino in Sioux City...

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