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For as long as most of us can remember, Ruble’s Service stood the test of time on the corner of Main and Roosevelt Streets here. The glossy white, single story building with big blue letters shouting out “STANDARD” stood proudly on the corner lot and withstood the floods of six decades. It was still there when the gas shortages of the 1970’s decimated the industry and remained viable even though it no longer served as a gas station...

In a recent email, San Diego based EDF Renewables and Google extended invitations to a special Glaciers Edge wind farm turbine blade signing event set for Thursday, Sept. 19, at Highway 3 and G Avenue east of Marcus. EDF said that people wishing to sign their name on an approximately 182’ long turbine blade can participate starting at 10:00 a.m. A special ceremony and luncheon at the Marcus Community Center at 11:00 will follow...

Often progress covers a multitude of sins. We need this because - This should be changed to fit in todays world - or we need to keep up with the Joneses. Whatever happened to pride in the past, the world and the Joneses be hanged. I’ve been a Cherokean most of my life, except a break 37 years in the Air Force, this has been my home. ...

Cherokee opened and executed an unexpected on-side kick to perfection, scoring on the turnover in a 46-0 shutout over MMCRU’s Royals here last Friday. “We saw something on film and practiced the on-side kick,” said Cherokee Head Coach Tony Gunter. “We told the kids, if it works, great. If not, we move forward.”...

As the sorry, flood-ravaged conditions of some Cherokee parkland languishes in the summer sun and heat, and continues to be a nettlesome topic for eyeballs and on social media, City officials say they’re communicating regularly with FEMA and DOT to hopefully work out a resolution sooner than later...

Documents obtained by the Chronicle Times reveal that Lopez Foods Inc., who purchased the Iowa Food Group Plant in Cherokee in July, paid a total $9.3 million for the facility, including $5.8 million in Real Property, and $3.5 million in Personal Property...

An E.J. Elmonds Presentation will be held at the Marcus Historical Building on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 1:00 PM. The program will be present by Ray Scott of Darlington, WI. and will be about E.J. Edmonds, owner of the Exchange Bank and two of the finer homes built in the Marcus area during that era...

Cherokee Washington High School hosted last week’s Chamber coffee in the Industrial Tech Room and showed the improvements being made in the IT program.  WHS IT teacher Alec Wynn spoke how excited the students are to be able to work with such high tech machines. "When you tell students we're gonna be blowing holes in steel with a high tech laser, you got 'em!" said Wynn. The IT program encourages students to pursue  careers in the industrial tech field...

Cherokee’s student section was all about the cowboy up theme here last Friday as they show their school spirit during a 46-0 win over MMCRU’s Royals. For more sports, see pages 5 and 6 in roday’s CT..

When Iowa Senator Charles Grassley paid a timely visit to an August 27 Town Hall public forum in the Spencer City Hall, that’s what really helped texplain a potentially dire situation. When I asked the Senator the initial question of the hour-long public forum, his answer was serious, informed and something you would expect to come out of a person with his own close personal ties to Iowa farmland...

In a recent email, San Diego based EDF Renewables and Google extended invitations to a special Glaciers Edge wind farm turbine blade signing event set for Thursday, Sept. 19, at Highway 3 and G Avenue east of Marcus. EDF said that people wishing to sign their name on an approximately 182’ long turbine blade can participate starting at 10:00 a.m. A special ceremony and luncheon at the Marcus Community Center at 11:00 will follow...