In this photo from 1997, the Lake County News-Chronicle staff poses as if watching for Halley’s Comet to appear. The paper had been owned by the Williams family of Bemidji and Spirit Lake, Iowa since 1945 but was sold in 1997 to the Murphy-McGinnis Media group. L-R, Donna Carlson, Forrest Johnson, Patti Roehler, Lois Lundberg, Florence Koss, Susan Southard and Monica Isley. Submitted Photo
Excerpts from the front pages of the Lake County News Chronicle from 1922, 1947, and 1972. Submitted by the Lake County Historical Society. APRIL 23,…