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Cyclists hope bike safety bill pedals through Legislature (03/04/10)
Last year a Plymouth County woman was hurt after being struck by a beer can while riding her bicycle along a country road. Erin Schroeder still gets butterflies in her stomach when she climbs on her bike. She hopes a proposed bicycle safety bill in the Iowa House of Representatives moves forward to help protect cyclists on the roadways...

Potholes open up challenges for crews, drivers (02/17/10)
Warm winter weather does more than melt snow -- it helps create potholes. And they multiply every time the ground freezes and thaws creating more this year than ever. That's what makes it hard for street crews like Le Mars and the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) to keep up with temporary pothole repairs...

Travel not advised on Highway 75, 60 north (01/25/10)
The Iowa Department of Transportation is reporting that travel conditions in northwest Iowa are extremely hazardous. Multiple roadways are being temporarily closed due to a high incidence of traffic crashes, including those involving high-profile vehicles...

Plows to be pulled, Highway 3 west down to one lane (01/07/10)
Iowa Highway 3 from Le Mars west to Highway 12 at the Akron/South Dakota border is limited to one lane, according to an advisory from the Iowa Department of Transportation. The DOT has also issued a warning that travel is currently not advised in all of western Iowa including Interstate 29 because of treacherous road conditions and blowing snow...

From drifts to piles: Cleanup continues after final flake falls (01/05/10)
Snow mounds dividing city streets and huge piles of snow in parking lots are diminishing -- but where's all that snow disappearing to? It's being scooped up with loader backhoes, with buckets that hold about a yard a quarter, put into trucks and taken to a dump site across Highway 3 west from the Le Mars Vet Clinic...

White Christmas: Le Mars gets wrapped under 13-17 inches of snow (12/28/09)
Pounded with more than a foot of snow and whipping winds, Le Mars hunkered down for a very merry blizzard this Christmas. "The snow just kept coming and coming," said Fire Chief Wayne Schipper, who also serves as the city's chief of emergency operations. "But everything went smooth here."...

City seeks state input on 12th Street crosswalk (12/02/09)
The idea of spending $9,000 for four push-button traffic pedestrian lights for student safety at the 12th Street and Third Avenue Southwest intersection prompted considerable discussion Tuesday for the Le Mars City Council. Council members plan to turn to the Iowa Department of Transportation (IDOT) for help in answering the question before making their decision...

Jury finds Robinson not guilty in traffic death (11/27/09)
A Merrill man charged with vehicular homicide was found not guilty by a jury Wednesday. Danny Clyde Robinson, 50, faced the felony charge after being in an August 2007 collision on Plymouth County roads just north of Merrill that claimed the life of 78-year-old Fern Nielson, of Lake Norden, S.D...

Road striping costs less than last year (09/16/09)
It's going to cost about $80,000 to paint center and edge lines on approximately 125 miles of roadway in Plymouth County. But the price tag for the about 7,000 gallons of paint to do that striping is less than last year, Tom Rohe, county engineer, told the Plymouth County Supervisors Tuesday...

Answers not easy in paying for Iowa's roads (07/24/09)
The cost of maintaining Iowa's road system is rising, and the dollars available to pay for it can't keep up. That's according to Plymouth County Engineer Tom Rohe. "The dollars are coming in but the buying power -- what we can buy with those dollars -- has seen a big decrease in the last four or five years," he explained...

City moving forward with bypass exit lighting (07/15/09)
The idea of lighting Highway 75 exits to Le Mars started about one year ago with the goal of bringing bypass traffic into the city. Now city officials are close to moving forward with the lights. Currently the Le Mars City Council is looking into putting up three lights at each exit ramp for north and southbound traffic -- a total of 18 lights...

City to provide added traffic control for Highway 3 detour (07/09/09)
Le Mars City Administrator Scott Langel and Le Mars City Council members agreed Tuesday that additional orange "temporary" stop signs are necessary for the detour which will likely begin Monday as the Highway 3 widening project gets underway. The portion of Highway 3 being closed for work runs from First Street Northeast to Park Lane, the north golf course entrance...

Special law enforcement project set for weekend (06/05/09)
Drive safe this summer. Buckle up and obey traffic laws. That's the message of a special law enforcement project that involves agencies from the three-state area, including the Plymouth County Sheriff's Office. Stepped up traffic enforcement begins tonight, according to Sergeant David Eral of the Iowa State Patrol...

Recreation trail completion, new sidewalks in city plans for 2009 (03/30/09)
The unpaved section of the recreation trail north of Le Mars is on the City of Le Mars' most wanted list. In the priorities for the year, City Administrator Scott Langel said the city's key goal this year is to finish projects not completed in 2008 or before...

More Business 75 sidewalks may get another look (08/06/08)
Council members could, at some point in the near future, be re-walking the topic of sidewalks for business areas along Business Highway 75 south. Council member Delana Ihrke raised the likelihood of the walkways during Tuesday's council session having observed the increased pedestrian traffic in that area, she told fellow council members...

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