Stories from Monday, February 16, 2015

Residents of big cities and their suburbs have many opportunities to be entertained by professional athletes, musicians, actors and other performers. What we have available here may not impress the jaded inhabitants of metropolitan areas, but in important ways, what we have is better...

The Ridge View girls finished their regular season on a positive note with a 37-29 win over Ar-We-Va on Tuesday February 10th. "Overall I was glad how we handled the pressure that Ar-We-Va gave us defensively," said Ridge View coach Jessica Christensen. ...

The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn girls wrapped their their regular basketball season with a couple of wins last week. On Friday February 6th, the Lady Eagles grabbed a 10-point lead after one quarter then held on to edge the gals from Hinton by a score of 57-51. ...

The Ridge View boys competed in the season-ending Western Valley Conference Tournament in late January and early February. On Monday February 2nd, the Raptors won a 56-55 thriller over West Monona. After a close first half, the Raptors stepped up their defense in the 3rd quarter and also executed the offense well, building an 11 point lead going into the final quarter. ...

The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn boys hit the road for a pair of games recently as they wrapped up their 2014-15 basketball regular season. On Friday February 6th, the Eagles traveled to Hinton, where they absorbed a 71-43 loss to the host Black Hawks. Jacob Spieler recorded a double-double for MMC, scoring 16 points and pulling down 11 rebounds, while Isaiah Petersen scored 13 points and grabbed five boards. Jake Hunter scored nine points for the Eagles...

1. Mediapolis (21-0) ; 2. Pocahontas Area (20-1); 3. Sioux Center (19-2); 4. Osage (22-0); 5.Crestwood (18-2); 6. Center Point-Urbana (17-4); 7. Nevada (18-3); 8.Hampton-Dumont (17-4); 9. Red Oak (17-4); 10.Shenandoah (17-4); 11.Spirit Lake (15-6); 12.Union ( 17-4); 13.Clear Lake (14-6); 14.Mid Prairie (14-7); 15. Kuemper Catholic (12-8)...

CLARION - The Alta-Aurelia wrestling team wrestled tough against South Central Calhoun in their first match at the Regional Team Dual Meet here on Tuesday Feb. 10th, but the Warriors wound up on the short end of a 48-34 score, bringing the team's dual season to a close. Five A-A wrestlers won their matches - Barritt Kolpin, Cooper Siebrecht, Skylar Solko, John Tuttle and Tristan Bainum...

MARCUS - The 13th ranked Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn girls topped Storm Lake St. Mary's, 65-48, in first-round Class 1A Regional Tournament action here Thursday. Four Lady Eagles scored in double figures, led by Ashley Hurd who dropped in 18 points and also had two steals on the defensive end. ...

The Cherokee Symphony will perform its Mid-Winter Concert, Sunday, March 1, at 4 p.m. at the Cherokee Community Center. Ted Hallberg, cellist and string teacher and music coordinator for the Le Mars Community School District, will conduct the orchestra...

Meeting in the Board of Supervisors room at the Cherokee County Courthouse on Friday morning February 13, a committee of three county officials announced the appointment of Jim Peck to the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors. Peck will be sworn in at 8:30 a.m. on Feb. 17 to fill the unexpired term of Ginger Walker, who resigned earlier this year...

Former Cherokee Chronicle publisher Marvin Wilmes has written a memoir, 'Beyond the Horizon,' a touching story of his early life and the challenges he faced in the watershed years of 1963 and 1984. When faced with a challenge in 1984,the paradoxical statement "In all joy, there is sadness; in all sadness, there is joy" did not make any sense to Marvin Wilmes. ...

Donald Johnson of Cherokee, age 90, passed away Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at the Cherokee Villa Nursing Home. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 14th, at the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee, with Pastor Jon Riggert officiating. ...

The county will soon address some of the design problems that have been present at the Cherokee County Law Enforcement Center, according to Chief Deputy Jeff Friederichsen. He said that the project that will be bid on March 10 and is slated to be completed by Sept. 1 will not resolve all the issues. A planned $3.5 million new Law Enforcement Center was abandoned when voters rejected a bond for $2.5 million of the total cost...