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🌱 Downtown Spencer businesses get a $20,000 boost

Spencer, Iowa Patch AM: a 4 min read

Cheers Spencer! We’re back, helping you stay up to date with what’s happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Downtown Spencer businesses get a $20,000 boost
  • Spencer’s Halle Sears heads to state with four qualifying events
  • Clay County takes fiscal role in water-quality project agreement

Also on today's calendar: November Event: AI + HR Roundtable and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Some sun, windy and cooler, with a high of 55 and low of 28 degrees.
  • Thursday: Colder; breezy in the morning, temps: high: 40, low: 24.
  • Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 40 and low of 21 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Spencer Main Street Awards Fall Grant Winners for 2026 (northwestiowanow.com) — Five downtown Spencer businesses are sharing $20,000 in Main Street Micros grants to help pay for building improvements, equipment and signage. Game State received the largest award, $5,500, while the other recipients are Daily Dip & Sip, DermUs Skin Care, Grand Consignments and Modern Woodman of America.
   

• Girls high school swimming: Spencer's Sears leads area state qualifiers (dbrnews.com) — Spencer junior Halle Sears qualified for the maximum four events at the state swim meet, leading a team with qualifiers in several individual races and all three relays. Sears enters the butterfly with a top-four seed time, while eighth-grader Emerson Wittrock holds the 10th-fastest qualifying time in the backstroke.
   

• Supervisors approve TIF fund transfers (tncontentexchange.com) — Clay County supervisors will serve as fiscal agent for a water-quality demonstration project under an agreement approved by Greene County drainage trustees. That is the Spencer connection in a broader Greene County meeting report, which also details nearly $600,000 in transfers for career academy and road-project debt payments.
   

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💬 Chatter

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  • KFC posted a job opening for AssistantManager in Spencer. Apply here.
  • Arby's posted a job opening for Team Member in Spencer. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Spencer here.

🗞 Nearby News

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Ok Spencer! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Spencer

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Never miss out on local news and events that matter to you.