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This weekend the popular Art in the Park will fill our park with beautiful, creative works of art waiting to be discovered by shoppers. This event has been a mainstay of the summer for many years. In early 1977, the Arts Council was organized. One of their first...
History is a combination of the good, the bad, and the ugly. Ugly was raising its head in the early to mid 1920’s in North Iowa. The Ku Klux Klan was gaining prominence in the USA. For a time they had a foothold in Clear Lake and Mason City. The Clear Lake Reporter...
As our seasonal Clear Lakers return to our charming lake town, one place will fill again with the sights and sounds of summer for the 130th year. The Outing Club, established in 1895, is thought to be Iowa’s first cooperative housing structure. Community based but...
In 1871 Joseph Hewitt’s Clear Lake City, south of the outlet, and James Dickirson’s Clear Lake Village, where our downtown of today stands, were joined and incorporated as Clear Lake Iowa. That same year the railroad and the telegraph arrived in town. These events set...
