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Mrs. Hopkins was originally born in Owensboro, Kentucky, but has lived in 9 different states and 2 Canadian provinces. She met her husband, Jason, while living in Alaska; he is originally from the Waterloo area.  After studying theatre at the University of Alaska Anchorage, she went back to school to study Middle School Education at Western Kentucky University where she earned Student of the Year in her program. ...

‘Sioux Valley Family Health’ eyes January start

The controversial quandry of banning downtown parking year-around consumed much of Tuesday’s Cherokee City Council meeting, with affected business owners and the Chief of Police weighing in on the subject first broached publicly in an October Council meeting by City Administrator Eric List...

WEST DES MOINES — Aureon has announced Cherokee County’s C-M-L Telephone Cooperative Association as the recipient of a $30,000 Ripple Effect Grant. The Ripple Effect grant was awarded for half of C-M-L Telephone’s match requirement for its recent USDA Rural Economic Development Grant award of $300,000...

Plant renovation, spring start-up on schedule

Congratulations to Kate Maves for being named the November Cherokee Chamber of Commerce Student of the Month. Kate is the daughter of Kristin and the late Michael Maves. Kate is involved in band, choir, cross country, and track at Cherokee Middle School...

Cherokee Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is pleased to announce that Dr. Emily Anzmann, DPM, has joined the medical staff and will start seeing patients in the new CRMC Foot and Ankle Clinic beginning Monday, November 18. Dr. Anzmann received her Bachelor of Science degree in Health Sciences from the Boston University in Boston, Mass. ...

Several City berths in the combined City/School Elections Nov. 5 in Cherokee County featured challengers and incumbents as winners, with the status quo remaining in Cherokee, the County Seat with three Council incumbents winning re-election. Cherokee At-Large Council member Chad Brown received 911 of 932 votes cast, with 21 write-ins; Ward 1 incumbent Amy Loughlin received 442 of 447 votes cast and five write-ins; and Ward 3 incumbent Wayne Pingel received 271 of 277 votes cast, with six write-ins.. ...

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On November 6, 2019 Chronicle Times received a call from Courtney Carsten, Tom Steyer's secretary, if we would be willing to do a story on Steyer's Partnership with Rural Communities policy. It's well known that rural areas continue to struggle with economic and social challenges. Tom Steyer, a presidential primary candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party, plans on correcting said issues through the Partnership of Rural Communities...

Over at the Cherokee Public Library there are people who come together to play a game of adventure and glory. That game is Dungeons and Dragons. Dungeons and Dragons, or DnD, is a role playing game with a wide variety of dice and imagination. The Dungeon Master, or the DM, creates a world full of adventure and intrigue and acts as a sort of guide to the world presented. The player, with the help of their imagination and the DM, assumes the role of someone in the DM's world...

WHS Biology Lab by Jill Phillips Students in Miss Steckleberg and Ms. Phillips Applied Biology class explored the process of Osmosis in a gummy bear lab this week. The purpose of the lab was to investigate the movement of different types of water into and out of a gummy bear. ...

(Editor’s note: Loren filed this story during the Clay CountyFair in September, but we saved it and thought it would make a great story and tribute to our veterans this Veterans Day, Monday, Nov. 11) SPENCER - Two days of gloomy, cool and cloudy weather with frequent periods of a heavy foggy mist plagued fairgoers on the opening Saturday and Sunday of the 102nd Clay County Fair at Spencer, and weather forecasts Monday were predicting a 70% chance for thunder storms as the fair was to honor veterans of the area with a 10:00 a.m. ...

“Mountains are a lot like dreams-many will just sit back and stare, but for those who are willing to charge up the mountain, I guarantee, the view is worth it!”-Tom Gilles. The Cherokee WHS student body had the opportunity recently to listen to Tom Gilles, former Professional snowboarder who has appeared in extreme sports movies, television and is a world-record holder.  ...

New Cherokee members assume duties Nov. 18

Brown, Anderson, Thomas winners

FORT DODGE - On a cool fall day with a slight breeze, area cross country runners turned in respectable performances at the 2019 running of the coed state cross country meet at Lakeside Gofl Course here Saturday. Highlighting area efforts showed Cherokee’s lady Braves capturing a 10th place team finish in Class 2A, and Ridge View Raptor senior Katlyn Wiese finishing 18th individually in Class 1A to garner the top finish among area runners...

I promised Tyler that I would write the article this week. What happens? I completely forget until Tuesday at 10:00. Oops. Anyway, Boy there is a lot to talk about! First and foremost, our carpeting situation. We are currently carpeting the rest of the library. ...

Cherokee Regional Medical Center Wellness Center has teamed up with The Chronicle Times to bring this fun coloring contest to kids of all ages (even the young at heart). Give your best effort and artistic ability when coloring the festive coloring page you will find inserted in today’s newspaper. ...

The construction project for the new Cherokee Airport Partial Parallel Taxiway (Apron to Runway 18) is well underway. The airport has six goals in mind: safety and security for the airport, provide an airport with existing and future needs, availability on the ground and air, support economic development, establish planning for airports in Iowa, and to provide education on aviation. With those goals in mind, the new taxiway is a welcomed addition...

Here is "Whats happening this week..." a brief calendar of community events, groups, and meetings that are going on in our area.

The dedicated members of Friends of the Library are ready for the 20th annual Book Basket Project. Area library supporters have been bringing in their basket projects for the Friends to wrap, but there is still time to bring a book basket in! The Friends would like all baskets to be at the Library as soon as possible. The baskets will then be on display at the Library until Saturday, December 7. Bidding began Friday, Nov. 1 and closes at noon Saturday, Dec. 7...

Three unopposed incumbents seek to return to their Cherokee City Council positions in the Nov. 5 City Election, including Amy Loughlin in Ward 1, Wayne Pingel in Ward 3, and Chad Brown At-Large. For Council member At-Large in Aurelia, three seek two positions, including Courtney Bruce, Cindy Nelson, and Robert Stroud. Gene Suhr is unopposed and seeks another term as Aurelia Mayor...

As corn drying season is upon us, inadequate propane delivery to the 9-state Midwest Corn Belt and a perhaps historically high demand for propane will likely expose the areas where the pipeline system will be unable to keep up with a high, short-term demand for propane...

October 24, 2019 was Dad's Belgian Waffles. The event was held at the Trinity Lutheran Church from 5 to 7 p.m. in Cherokee, Iowa. Admission was $7 for ages 6 and up, and anyone who was under 6 got in for free. Dad’s Belgian Waffles is a fund-raiser for hire, serving waffles and sausages. They had a great turn out, filling up their tables quickly!...

The library has been fortunate to be in the paper a lot recently. Not because of controversy like other libraries, but because staff has been working hard to both provide programming and new opportunities for you, our patrons. One of these opportunities is the esports team in the youth department...

The dedicated members of Friends of the Library are ready for the 20th annual Book Basket Project. Area library supporters have been bringing in their basket projects for the Friends to wrap, but there is still time to bring a book basket in! The Friends would like all baskets to be at the Library as soon as possible. The baskets will then be on display at the Library until Saturday, December 7. Bidding begins Friday, Nov. 1 and closes at noon Saturday, Dec. 7...

MARCUS - A Public Measure housing an energetic $20 million in capital improvement projects for the Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn School District in Cherokee and Plymouth counties is on the Nov. 5 ballot as part of the combined City-School Elections this year...

Here is "Whats happening this week..." a brief calendar of community events, groups, and meetings that are going on in our area. If you know of an event going on in Cherokee County and would like us to ad it to our "Whats happening this week..." please contact the Chronicle Times at 712-225-5111. (Some events may not be added due to space and other technical reasons, if you have questions please feel free to ask.)...

Ms. Steckelberg's Introduction to Agriculture classes are starting to learn about drones. To kick things off, Justin Pritts, Cherokee County Emergency Management Coordinator, came to discuss how he uses drones in his area of work. He talked about the drone they have and what attachments they can use with it. ...

The Siouxland Interstate Metropolitan Planning Council (SIMPCO) is developing a Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan for the Iowa counties of Cherokee, Ida, Monona, Plymouth and Woodbury, which includes the unincorporated areas, cities and school districts within each respective county. When complete, the Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan will replace the current County Multi-Jurisdictional Plan for participating counties and their jurisdictions...

Did you know that 333,000 accidents a year are due to texting and driving? Shockingly 11 students die every day while texting and driving. Recently, students at Cherokee WHS, had a speaker come to talk about a very important subject, texting and driving. ...

In a brief Cherokee City Council meeting last week, City Administrator Eric List explained that a proposed ordinance eliminating all overnight parking, year-round, on the 100 and 200 blocks of Main Street between 1st and 4th Streets during the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.is being considered by the City to allow for more efficiency to sweep the street and remove snow...

Mental health awareness is an important issue for all educators, who are often the first line of defense for their students. Education professionals have recognized the impact that a student's mental health has on learning and achievement, and they realize that there's a great deal that can be done to help students with mental health issues. ...

Cherokee/SL native lived gay rights movement By DANA LARSEN Pilot-Tribune Editor “Some say love, it is a river, that drowns the tender reed Some say love, it is a razor, that leaves your soul to bleed” As a junior in high school, he remembers hearing a classmate perform a moving rendition of the song, “The Rose,” in the school gym in Cherokee, thinking to himself, “If I ever get married, I want to have that song sung.”...

Holzhauer Motors acquires Rasmussen Ford Cherokee dealer takes over Cherokee, Storm Lake locations Holzhauer Motors, Ltd. and Rasmussen Ford-Mercury, Inc. jointly announced Thursday that they have come to terms under which Rasmussen will sell Holzhauer Motors its Ford-Mercury assets in Cherokee and Storm Lake...

At a fiery, emotional Cherokee School Board meeting Monday night, Cherokee School Superintendent Kim Lingenfelter was depicted as a menacing presence ruling the district through intimidation, blatant retaliation, and threats of termination to employees crossing or confronting her, no matter haw trivial or significant the issue...

Hello again, readers! I figured today I would talk about some of the Halloween events we have going on at the library since we’re so close to the spooky day! Halloween has always been my favorite holiday of the year. I grew up loving mystery and horror literature, and Halloween embodies the entire eerie mystique I craved from authors like R.L. ...

Cherokee County Auditor and Commissioner of Elections, Kris Glienke, has announced that election updates and results will be available on a new elections website at www.cherokeecountyelections.com. The new user-friendly website features tools and information for voters and candidates to quickly and easily find the election information they seek...

Last Friday, on October 18, 2019, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig stopped in Cherokee county to see the growth and expansion of the Foundation Analytical Laboratory’s new facility on the City’s north side. During an interview with the Chronicle Times, when Naig was asked about the recent EPA Renewable Fuels proposal, he had this to say, "As it is, this isn't acceptable. If we were to fix it, we need to deliver on what the President said and they (EPA) need to hear what is being said."...

Here is "Whats happening this week..." a brief calendar of community events, groups, and meetings that are going on in our area. If you know of an event going on in Cherokee County and would like us to ad it to our "Whats happening this week..." please contact the Chronicle Times at 712-225-5111. (Some events may not be added due to space and other technical reasons, if you have questions please feel free to ask.)...

This week’s WHS Braves Alumni Spotlight is Kelly (Phipps) Lundell! Kelly graduated from Cherokee Washington High School in 2004. Kelly lives with her husband, Eric, who also graduated from WHS in 2001. Their family lives here in Cherokee and they have...