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Thanks for visiting our brand new site! After years of your loyal readership, we’ve decided to give you the ultimate online experience with our interactive Digital Edition. Click on the cover image at right (or click here) to begin reading this week’s edition now!! You can flip through the pages, zoom to enlarge, link directly to advertiser web sites, do a Keyword Search, Email coupons and pages to your friends, and much more...best of all, you can sign up to receive email delivery for FREE. Click here to sign up now!

Since 1973, the Lakes News Shopper has been providing the best of our region to our readers and advertisers. It is delivered weekly to homes, resorts, and businesses in the Iowa Great Lakes Trade Area. We are the only year-round free newspaper that has adult supervised carriers in Dickinson County, and the city of Estherville.

The Lakes News Shopper hand delivers Big Spirit Lake and areas not receiving the paper in the mail. This additional summer coverage is from Memorial Day through August.