A commercial flock of about 50,000 turkeys in Buena Vista County was recently infected by a highly transmissible bird flu, according to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Continue reading Bird Flu detected in Buena Vista County turkey flock
The public library is a place where lots of interesting things happen for people of a variety of ages. Below are some of the events scheduled at the library in the coming weeks. Continue reading What’s up at the North Sioux City Community Library
Oh, the color, the excitement, the pomp of Division I college football! On ESPN’s College GameDay. And in the USD Dakota Dome in Vermillion! Maybe. Continue reading Is ESPN’s College GameDay headed to Vermillion?
A FiberComm boring machine making holes to run plastic conduit underground accidentally cut MidAmerican Energy electric cable along Dakota Dunes Boulevard this morning leaving approximately 800 utility customers without power. Continue reading FiberComm boring machine severs electrical line; results in Dunes power outage Thursday
A man suspected of murder in Virginia was arrested this afternoon in Vermillion according to a news release by the Vermillion Police Department. Edward Denoyer, age 25, is suspected of killing two people in Virginia. Continue reading Murder suspect arrested in Vermillion this afternoon
There are always a lot of lofty claims associated with new products and services and this new FTTH has not been afraid to use them. One claim in particular is that the service will increase the value of one’s home. The claim is based on a single study done in 2015 and was sponsored by the Fiber Broadband Association, a national trade organization. Continue reading Does fiber broadband increase your home’s value?
By Gary Dickson garydickson@siouxlandobserver.com Dakota Dunes drivers heading off to work Tuesday morning may have noticed groups of workers in florescent green vests digging holes and trenches in the parkways along Dakota Dunes Boulevard. The workers are part of crews employed by FiberComm, a Siouxland telecommunications company, building a fiber-optic internet in the Dakota Dunes community. FiberComm’s webpage describes fiber-optic internet as “cutting edge” and extremely fast at speeds of up to 1 gigabit. The industry refers to fiber-optic as fiber-to-the-home internet, abbreviated as FTTH, that uses fiber optic cables made of tiny strands of glass, each one thinner than … Continue reading FiberComm begins building new fiber Internet network in Dakota Dunes
I want to tell you about the next step in our news coverage here at The Siouxland Observer. You got an inkling of it on Saturday, Oct. 14 when I posted the story about the state of Iowa joining the pork producers’ challenge of a new Massachusetts law that bans the sale of pork that doesn’t meet strict hog-confinement requirements. Continue reading Some news about our news
By Gary Dickson garydickson@siouxlandobserver.com Ever since I was 12 years old, I’ve loved to go to car shows. That was when a buddy of mine begged … Continue reading Cars and Coffee event brings expensive European sports car owners and wannabes together for BBQ and car talk
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