Photo galleries

Recognition Banquet (03/17/10)
The 15th annual Cherokee County Recognition Banquet was held at the Western Iowa Tech Conference Center in Cherokee on Saturday March 13, 2010. Following a Social Hour featuring music by Charlie Leissler, and a slide show depicting progress made in...

Cherokee Community Theatre presents 'Enter Laughing' (03/15/10)
The Cherokee Community Theatre opened its 51st season with the production of 'Enter Laughing,' a comedy based on a novel by renowned comic legend Carl Reiner. The play is set in 1938, and tells the story of David Kolowitz, a teenager who works at a...

Home Show (03/10/10)
The Chronicle Times held its annual Home Show on Saturday March 6, 2010, at the Western Iowa Tech Conference Center. More than 20 booths allowed area merchants to display their good and services, and each booth had a sign-up sheet, enabling...

Dr. Seuss Day At Cleghorn (03/08/10)
Dr. Seuss Would be Proud - March 2 is Dr. Seuss Day. Celebrations of all kinds are held to celebrate the famous books and the author's birthday. Students in Jan Brown's Class at Cleghorn enjoyed a cooking experience of making scrambled eggs and...

Car Care Spring 2010 (03/04/10)
Spring is just around the corner, and it's time to think about getting outside, tending to you yard, garden, flowers ... and your vehicle. In this gallery, you'll find tips for getting your vehicle ready for spring.

March Area Happenings (03/01/10)
As spring finally came after the long, hard winter, Cherokee County residents picked up their already busy schedule in honor of Easter and other seasonal events.

Second Annual Pancake Race (02/19/10)
On a frigid Tuesday Feb. 16, 2010, the second annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race took place in Cherokee. According to race organizer J.C. Cook, in England many years ago the tradition was established for housewives to use the food ingredients that...

2010 Progress Update (02/18/10)
The city of Cherokee had a great year in 2009 and there will be great things to come in 2010 . This gallery takes a look at several Cherokee businesses today.

2010 Cherokee County Ag Show (02/11/10)
The 2010 Ag Show, sponsored by the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce Ag Committee, was held at the Western Iowa Tech Community College Conference Center in Cherokee on Feb. 9, 2009.

100 Days (02/05/10)
The Aurelia Community School District TK - 4th grade students and their teachers celebrated their 100th day of school this year on Monday, February 1. The date for the celebration "kept eluding" Principal Ann Sandine, in her words, as she was...

February Area Happenings (02/03/10)

Gymnastics Team Results and Photos (01/28/10)
Springers leap in Welcome WELCOME, Minn. - Several local athletes competed in the first gymnastic meet of the 2009-2010 season when the two travel teams from Springer's Gymnastics ventured to Welcome, Minn. for the "Christmas in Candy Land...

January Area Happenings (01/27/10)
January brought very cold weather, along with a lot of snow, to Cherokee County. It all started with a blizzard on Dec. 23, 2009, and about ten days later, we got hit again! But, despite the cold, people found interesting and fun things to do -...

10th Cherokee Jazz and Blues Festival (01/14/10)
Cherokee hosted its 10th Cherokee Jazz and Blues Festival from Jan. 8-10 this year, and a lot of great jazz, blues and rock musicians warmed the many attendees on a cold, cold weekend. Mark Pender of the Tonight Show Band was the headline...

Pilot Rock D.A.R. (01/08/10)
The Pilot Rock Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution had a patrriotic and busy 2009, as shown in this photo gallery.

Films as Literature Course at WHS (01/07/10)
Washington High School Language Arts department recently offered a course called Films as Literature. In this class students view a variety of films, analyze them, and also have the opportunity to create their own film. They wrote, directed, and...

Christmas Snow Storm (12/30/09)
A Christmas Blizzard struck the area over the 2009 holiday, effectively canceling or postponing most family and public Christmas festivities, as traffic was impossible and certainly not advised.

Washington High School Christmas Concert 2009 (12/16/09)
The music department of Cherokee Washington High School presented its annual Holiday concert in the school auditorium on Monday December 14. High school students from both the vocal music department, under the direction of Amy Sarchet, and the...

4th Graders decorate CRMC trees with homemade Christmas ornaments (12/10/09)
Recently Susan Jensen's 4th grade art students from Roosevelt Elementary School delivered several Christmas tree decorations from the Kindergarten, First, Second, Third and Fourth grade art classes to the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. The...

Wonderful World of Christmas (12/04/09)
The annual "Wonderful World of Christmas" lighted parade was staged in downtown Cherokee at 6 p.m. on Thursday Dec. 3, accompanied by a very light snowfall. There were 30 entries in the parade this year, and floats were judged in two categories -...

December Area Happenings (12/03/09)

A visit to the Museum (11/30/09)
Students from Lynette Hyndman's second grade class at Roosevelt Elementary School spent some time at the Tiel-Sanford Museum on Tuesday November 24 to learn about Native American historic customs.

Area High School Winter Sports Preview (11/30/09)
The winter sports season has begun, and games kick off in full swing the week of November 30. Team stories and photos of the Cherokee Washington, Aurelia, River Valley, Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn, South O'Brien, and Ridge View High School basketball...

4 - H Awards (11/19/09)
Cherokee County held its annual county-wide 4-H Awards Banquet at the Aurelia Community Center on Sunday November 15.County 4-H Extension Director Brenda Medick served as Master of Ceremonies at the Awards ceremony, which followed a delicious buffet...

WHS Play (11/18/09)
The Cherokee Washington High School Drama Dept. presented the play, "An Almost True Tale of Robin Hood," on Thursday and Friday evening (Nov. 19,20) in the Cherokee High School Auditorium.