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Aurelian claims $50,000 lottery (1/14/21)

A Cherokee County woman won a scratch ticket at a family Christmas gathering and scratched off a $50,000 prize. “My dad actually got the tickets for us,” Jacee Sangwin of Aurelia told officials on Monday after claiming her prize at the lottery’s Storm Lake regional office. “Every year we go to my parents’ house and we play card games. Whoever wins the card game, you get a ticket, and then at the end of the night we all scratch our tickets.”...
Benson Nails It On the Line (1/11/21)

Braves Get Tigers By 1
City OKs Wescott Park relocation (12/30/20)

FEMA to fund 75% of $300,000 land costs
Trump’s ‘Proud Patriots’ storms Capitol (1/8/21)

Frenzied mob follow President’s lead
County COVID vaccine update (1/14/21)

(1-8-21) - Following the Emergency Use Authorization of both the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) is partnering with county public health departments to begin vaccinating Iowans. Both vaccines are currently being administered in Iowa to the Phase 1A priority populations of health care personnel and long-term care residents and staff...
Order in the courts! (1/15/21)

Fiedler grabs tennis ‘racket’ with both hands
Township Trustees, Clerks appointed (1/11/21)

Cherokee County Township Trustee and Clerk appointments were approved by the Board of Supervisors at the Jan. 4 organizational meting. The four-year terms end Dec. 31, 2024. They include: Gary Anderson as Afton Township Trustee. Daryl Ducommun as Cedar Township Trustee...
Feeding time in Trump jungle (1/8/21)

How very proud Donald Trump supporters must be today after their demented “leader” incited thousands of the naive and gullible to risk theirs’ and others’ lives in an armed attack on America. And they did it as the entire world watched, laughed and cringed at how the mighty USA has fallen to the depths of a lawless third-world country where peace, principle, decency, and democracy had given way to the second coming of the People’s Temple, and Branch Dividians...
Chronicle Times ‘Top 4 Under 40’ (12/14/20)

Nominations deadline Jan. 8
MMCRU’s Brighton honored (12/4/20)

MARCUS - Longtime MC, MMC and MMCRU Middle School Athletic Director Mark Brighton has been inducted into the Iowa High School Athletic Director Association’s (IHSADA) Hall of Fame, attaining that coveted level for his many years of service to students, his school, the IHSADA and IHSAA...