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SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa — A funeral service for Maxine Bartels, age 90, of Spirit Lake, will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024, at First Presbyterian Church in

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   WEST DOVER — A ski season at Mount Snow like no other concluded Sunday after a snowstorm Thursday and Friday brought some fresh flakes to the last trails left open. “Despite having the most powerful snowmaking system in the east, we at Mount Snow are always thrilled when Mother Nature delivers the goods as she has leading up to our closing weekend,” Tracy Bartels, general manager of the resort, said in an email response to the Reformer. “That 20 inches of fresh snow helped put an exclamation point on the joy and excitem...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — For a while on Thursday, snow fell at a rate of between 2 and 4 inches an hour. “That’s pretty impressive,” said Tom Kines, senior meteorologist for Accuweather. Snow totals varied throughout the tri-state region, from 18 inches to more than three feet in some places, close to the 45 inches that fell on Binghamton, N.Y. “The city was under a heavy band where show was accumulating two to four inches and hour for many hours,” he said. While the tri-state region was in a similar band, said Kines, it...