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Lynn Porter, Sr. Community Affairs Manager for Black Hills Energy out of Council Bluffs, IA, visited Lake View on Thursday, August 10, 2023, to announce the Company’s recent gift to

Mount Carmel, population 70, stood out as the smallest community to host RAGBRAI 50 on Monday, but riders still found big hospitality there — even “A Little Slice of Heaven.”

Will the millennium arrive in darkness and chaos as billions of lines of computer code containing two-digit year dates shut down hospitals, banks, police and fire departments, airlines, utilities, the Pentagon, and the White House? The nightmare scenarios are only too possible, ROBERT SAM ANSON discovers as he traces the birth of the Y2K "bug," the folly, greed, and denial that have muffled two decades of warnings from technology experts, and the ominous results of Y2K tests that lay b...

  Lake View’s Camp Crescent will have more flags than usual flying during the upcoming Memorial Day weekend thanks to a generous donation from a local veteran. Last week, American Legion 8 th District Membership Chairman and Lake View resident, Ed Rohner, purchased 288 American flags and presented them to the City of Lake View. The flags will be distributed to campers during check-in with any remaining flags to be handed out during the Fourth of July weekend. According to city officials, the...

  Last week, Iowa State Bank (ISB) made a significant pledge to the City of Lake View to be used on the construction of a new community center on Black Hawk Lake’s north shore. ISB President, Steve Spotts, presented the $20,000 pledge to Mayor, John Westergaard, who says, “Thank you for your generous commitment and for always supporting our community.” Planning for the estimated $1.45 million structure is already well underway. In October, the city council pledged $500,000 in tax increme...