Listen to the second episode of Spencer Weekly featuring Spencer City Manager Amanda Mack. Find Spencer Weekly on your favorite podcast platform. Amanda Mack loves Spencer. She’s been Spencer city manager for three years now. We sat down with Amanda and covered a lot of ground. In Episode 2 of Spencer Weekly, Kevin and Tim...
Spencer officials believe that an increase in the availability of tests for COVID-19 will result in more cases being confirmed across the state. “We will no doubt see increased cases in the state of Iowa,” Mayor Kevin Robinson said Friday in a live town hall on Facebook. “This is due to, again, more testing being...
Here are the latest updates from local, state and federal government officials about the new coronavirus and COVID-19 disease outbreak. As of March 27, the Iowa Department of Public Health has reported zero confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Clay County. One confirmed case has been reported in Dickinson County, its first. There have been 235...
Lakes Regional Healthcare in Spirit Lake has confirmed a case of COVID-19 in Dickinson County after a man between the ages of 61 and 80 was diagnosed today. This is the first confirmed case in Dickinson County and the first of any counties neighboring Clay County. The hospital staff stated the man is stable, getting...
Rachel Meyer’s daughter was missing her friends. As with many kids staying home while schools are closed, Meyer’s daughter was feeling the effects of the social distancing requirements being put in place across the country – and the world – to slow the spread of COVID-19. So, Meyer had an idea. If it worked, then...
The first episode of Spencer Weekly, a news podcast about our community, dropped today. Our first guests were Nicholas Applegate and Lucas Kline of The Iowa Project Brewing Company. The brewery is one of the Grand Avenue happenings that a ton of people are keeping tabs on. In Spencer Weekly’s first episode, Kevin, Andy and...
Many aspects of daily life have slowed down or come to a halt as the Spencer community hunkers down in attempts to slow the spread of COVID-19. As of March 19, the Iowa Department of Health has not reported any confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Clay County or any of its neighboring counties. Still, city,...
Spencer Municipal Utilities is shutting off water Wednesday for addresses in northeast Spencer and has issued a drinking water advisory for those homes while its crews fix a water main break. Water will be shut off at the affected addresses until the maintenance is finished. An advisory from SMU states the work will be conducted...
Spencer restaurants and coffee shops are getting the word out about how their operations will be affected by a health emergency declared today by Gov. Kim Reynolds. The health emergency, issued to combat the spread of COVID-19 in Iowa, ordered the closures of many businesses, including dining areas of restaurants and bars, at noon Tuesday....
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynods has issued a state of public health disaster emergency effective at noon today until April 16 that implements steps requiring social distancing and limiting community spread of COVID-19. According to a press release from the governor’s office, those steps include temporary requirements that restaurants move to drive-thru, take out and delivery...