Home

Legion post honors Spencer soldier
On May 11, 1919, a group of Spencer World War I veterans boarded a train at 3 a.m. in Carroll to go to Des Moines.

Memorial Day in Spencer
61st Celebration — 10 a.m., Spencer High School Theatre
Featured speaker: Bonnie Anderson, U.S. Army veteran.

Vehicle fire report lands 2 men in jail on felony drug charges
Two Spencer men found themselves in the Clay County Jail recently after police say they responded to a vehicle fire at a home in the 500 block of East Ninth Street and smelled marijuana while speaking with the homeown

McDermott to serve as Reporter, DCN summer intern
Mo McDermott began Tuesday and will serve as the summer intern for the Spencer Reporter and the Dickinson County News.

Spencer will have to wait until December for funding
The Iowa Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) program, created in response to the series of disasters that hit the state in 2024, has been funded to the tune of $134.6 million, according to Sp

'Next chapter’ begins
“I have never been one to want to take a lead role but rather a ing role to make the business, the airport and the traveling community a better place,” Gayle Brandt said.

Flood buyouts, hazard demolitions on pace to begin this year
The first four homes set to be demolished through three federal buyout and/or demolition flood recovery and mitigation programs will likely be razed in June or July, City Manager Kevin Robinson said during a May 19 re

How to spend drug money?
On June 12, a meeting is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in Spencer Hospital’s Maple Conference Room to look at how to proceed in the county battle with the opioid crisis.