Madison Lewis of Garwin brings her horse down the home stretch at the Iowa National Barrel Horse Association District 3 competition on Oct. 10. Lewis was among several competitors from an 18-county region throughout northeast Iowa competing over two days at the Ridge Riders Arena in Toledo. ...
Twelve Reinbeck 4-H youth and six adult 4-H volunteers gathered at the United Church of Christ in Reinbeck on September 25 to package meals for the hungry which were distributed to the Northeast Iowa Food Bank in Waterloo, and local food pantries in Reinbeck, Gladbrook and Traer. The Reinbeck ...
The regular city/school election will be held as a combined election on November 2, 2021. The city/school election will use the regular general election precincts. Voters will go to the polls for this election at the same place that they vote for a regular general (presidential or ...
The Annual 4-H Youth State Shooting Match was held August 28 at Brownell’s Big Springs Range near Montezuma. Over 100 4-H members explored the sport of shooting, hunting and sportsmanship skills at the state level, which consisted of six different disciplines: air rifle, shotgun, smallbore ...
With the annual fall crop harvest running ahead of schedule, Iowa’s 2021 pheasant season is expected to be another good one when 55,000 plus blaze orange clad hunters take to the fields on Oct. 30. And based on the results of the August pheasant survey, hunters can afford to be optimistic. ...
For a one-ingredient recipe made by bees, honey cannot be beat. September was National Honey Month — first celebrated in 1989 by the National Honey Board — a time when many honey producers and beekeepers across the United States collect their final extraction of the season and begin to ...
A Spirit Lake man was injured Sunday afternoon following a high-speed chase in southern Black Hawk County near the Grundy and Tama County borders. George Marten Williamson, 32, was stopped by Black Hawk County Sheriff’s deputies around 2:15 p.m. on Oct. 3 for a speeding violation. The ...
The 2021 American Legion Auxiliary Third District Fall Conference was opened in form by PDP and Iowa’s NEC Kelly Elliott acting as Parliamentarian introduced Vice President Sandy Scallon as resignation of President Pat Williams due to health issues. She was officially installed by Elliott. ...
An eight week effort to focus on the COVID-19 vaccine’s role in reducing illness and hospitalization has concluded, and officials with Grundy County Public Health (GCPH) are pleased to see that the county’s vaccine rate has increased. The “Team Up Against COVID-19” campaign wrapped ...