November’s Breaking Glass, sponsored by Clear Lake Bank & Trust, will featuring Mason City native, Sarah Stanton Kurz. This session will be held from 8-9:30AM on Thursday, November 19 at the Commerce Center. Sarah is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Tippie School of Business and holds an MBA...
Life in North Iowa is a Bargain
Mason City continues to rank favorably among Midwest communities in the most recent Cost of Living Index Report. The Chamber of Commerce participates in research to assist the Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) in producing the quarterly index. Raw data from 273 metropolitan and micropolitan areas across the...
Quarantine Guidance from IDPH
The Iowa Department of Public Health recently released new quarantine guidelines for business, education, and child care settings in response to COVID-19. For non-healthcare, non-residential settings, quarantine is no longer recommended if a potential exposure occurs while both the infectious individual and the close contacts are wearing face coverings consistently...