DES MOINES — Gardeners from across the state brought the best vegetables to Des Moines to compete in the Vegetable Crop competitions judged at the 2024 Iowa State Fair. Area winners are listed below. VEGETABLES- SUNFLOWERS Sunflower Head 3) Chuck Werner, Chelsea VEGETABLES- GARDEN ...
Lincoln Savings Bank introduces the newest addition to its team, Carson Wobeter. Wobeter joined LSB on July 29 as an Ag and Commercial Lender, serving the Lincoln, Garwin and Tama locations. Wobeter comes to LSB with a strong background in agriculture, holding a degree in Agribusiness from ...
Dennis Dostal, of Toledo Iowa, provided a team of horses and stagecoach for the annual Lincoln Highway Days Parade, and the rodeo in the evening. Everyone enjoyed seeing this pair of horses, and an original stagecoach.
The Wieting Theatre Guild and the Footliters Traveling Playhouse was excited to present to our community a musical by children age seven and older. Students have learned theatre skills in camp and are eager to perform for their families, friends and neighbors. “The School for Spies”, an ...
ELBERON - The Elberon American Legion Auxiliary Unit 226 met July 11 with the meeting opening in usual form. Secretary Norma Riha called the roll of officers and read the minutes of the June meeting. Treasurer Pat Sauer gave the financial report. Both reports were approved as read. Old ...
ELBERON — The Elberon Area Women's Club met at 11 a.m. on July 15. The group drove around Elberon looking at the yards of residents to pick a winner of the "prettiest yard" contest. They voted to choose the yard of Scott and Heidi Pippert. A check for two meals at a Elberon Fire and Rescue ...
IOWA – Some areas of northwest Iowa received more than half a year's worth of rain during the final week of June, leading to significant flooding conditions, according to the latest Water Summary Update. June’s preliminary statewide rainfall average was 5.22 inches. However, precipitation ...
Mid-Iowa Community Action announces its sponsorship of the Child and Adult Care Food Program. Meals are provided without regard to race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), age or disability. Child care participants who are members of FIP or SNAP ...
TAMA — The Tama County Historical Society has created a self-guided history tour for Oak Hill Cemetery in Tama. The tour includes a history of the cemetery, as well as profiles of some of the people interred there. “The subjects are a cross section of some of Tama’s former citizens from ...
Derek and Amy Townsend, of Chelsea, are the parents of a son, Cornelius Clay, born at 12:09 a.m. on June 1 at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. He weighed 6 lbs., 1 oz. and was 18 inches long. He is greeted by big sisters, Haven and Lucy and big brothers Judah and Davis at home and sister, ...