Stories from Monday, December 15, 2014

Santa began making his annual visits to the Thiel Sanford Museum in Cherokee recently. The jolly old elf will be at the Sanford three times a week for the remainder of the Christmas season. Photo by Ken Ross.

Public Lbraririans from throughout Cherokee County made their annual presentation to the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors at the Dec. 9 meeting. Besides municipal funds, the libraries receive funding from the county rural basic levy as well as other sources such, as Friends of Library organizations and grants...

The Cherokee area has experiencied some challenges, but there are a number of signs of progress, according to Mark Buschkamp, executive director of the Cherokee Area Economic Development Corporation (CAEDC), in comments he made to the Cherokee City Counicll...

Aaron and Shavon Cronin of Marcus are happy to announce the birth of their baby boy, who was born on December 3, 2014. Arlo Gene Cronin was born at 9:58 a.m., and he weighed 7 lb. 1 oz. and measured 20 inches long. Arlo was welcomed home by his four big brothers - Matthew, Abram, Job and Francis...

DuWayne Rupp recently presented a donation of $1,000 to the Cherokee County Work Services on behalf of the Little Sioux Red Power Tractor Club, to be used in the CCWS Christmas celebration. Pictured here are Dustin Todd, DuWayne Rupp, Dennis Bahr, Shelby Bechtel, Chris Laursen, Lynn Smith, Charlie Hale and Calvin Carver...

Some years back, there was a call for undocumented immigrants in the United States to boycott work in protest of proposed increased criminal sanctions against such immigrants. The boycott was intended to illustrate the role that the immigrant workers play in the American economy. Some owners of businesses in metropolitan areas felt a financial loss on that day and the customers of those businesses were inconvenienced, but the tactic was generally regarded as a flop and hasn't been repeated...

AURELIA - The fledgling Northwest Iowa Bulldogs semi-pro football team held tryouts for the team in November in the gymnasium at the Aurelia school. Team co-owner Zach Nixon said that 35-45 men were planning to attend the tryouts, but some of the prospective players and the coaches were unable to make it because of the snow that fell that day, with many calling to say they had to turn back because of the weather...

EMMETSBURG - The Alta-Aurelia wrestlers traveled to Emmetsburg on Thursday, December 11th to take part in a double dual against Emmetsburg and Cherokee.The Warriors opened with a victory against Cherokee and finished with a second win against Emmetsburg to push their early season record to 4-0...

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MARCUS - Remsen St. Mary's broke from a tight 26-25 halftime lead with a frolicking 25-4 scoring run in the third quarter on the way to a 64-44 boys basketball win over Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn here last week. Isaiah Petersen paced the MMC boys with 12 points, while Ben Specht added 10, and Jake Hunter and Conner Hanson eight apiece...

CORRECTIONVILLE - Westwood made a 16-8 lead forged in the first quarter hold up all the way to claim a 43-30 girls basketball win over River Valley here last week. Payton Goettsch led the RV Wolverines with 12 points, while Makenna Thomas added seven. River Valley sank 10-36 field goals for 28 percent, and meshed 8-15 free throws...

Kyle and Heather French of Aurelia are happy to announce the birth of their baby boy,who was born on December 3,2014. Lucas Michael French was born at 10:24 a.m.,weighed 7 lb. 5 oz., measured 19 1/2 inches long, and was welcomed home by his big sister,Sophia. Grandparents are Nora Herr of Storm Lake and Carl and Carol French of Irwin...