Stories from Monday, August 11, 2014

Members of the Cherokee Washington High School Braves football team attended a three day camp at the high school last week as they began their conditioning for the Braves' upcoming football season. The team, under the direction of head coach Travis Schipper...

CUSHING -- Race organizers are expecting a crowd similar in size to last year's 250 participants at the second annual Uncle Ben 5K Run/Walk, sponsored by Driftwood. The event takes place here this Saturday, August 16, at 9 a.m. Boys and girls from ages 1 to 70 have signed up to take part in the event, which will double the size of this small Woodbury County town for a couple hours that morning. ...

Corey West, a sex offender who fled the CCUSO transition program at Cherokee on Sunday, Aug. 3, was captured on Friday by U.S. Marshals in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Authorities in northwest Iowa had been searching for the man, who absconded from a sex offender transition release program, for five days...

David Strom of Windom,Minnesota is the Cherokee Sanford Museum's Artist of the Month for August. Strom, a southern Minnesota native, says he draws his inspiration from his surroundings. His artwork features dense pen and ink drawings, which convey a variety of interpretations of common agricultural structures by creatively exploring subjects like grain bins, silos and wind mills, that cause us to re-imagine and appreciate these familiar sights in a new way...

At its weekly meeting Tuesday, the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors approved bids for replacement of the outside doors at all four entrances of the courthouse. Valley Glass of Cherokee will install replacement doors at the four entrances at a cost of $17,950, and Automatic Door Group of Des Moines will provide and install door openers for each of the doors at a cost of $13,200. The work on the doors and openers is expected to be done this fall...

Are you going to be eligible for Medicare in the near future? Have you been on Medicare for awhile and want to better understand what it offers? Do you have a family member you help with Medicare issues? "Welcome to Medicare" is for you! This free, two hour seminar co-hosted by Cherokee Regional Medical Center and Connections Area Agency on Aging will be offered on two different dates... ...

The good news is that people no longer have to accept harassment in the workplace. The bad news is that workers, especially those in a supervisory position, have to be concerned that what they may regard as innocent humor or an attempt to kindle a workplace romance may be offensive...

EARLY - The 2014 Ridge View alumni baseball game took place here on July 26, featuring alumni of Galva, Holstein, Galva-Holstein, Schaller, Crestland of Early, Schaller-Crestland and Ridge View High Schools. Coach Shannon Tesch said the game was "a close 7-6 battle," adding that...