Stories from Wednesday, June 3, 2015

This Friday's 9:30 a.m. Chamber Coffee is sponsored by Storm Lake radio, and will be held at the Chamber Office at 201 West Main Street.

I am showing my age in remembering the first time I encountered a public library's summer reading program. The library was in Onawa, Iowa, and the year was sometime around 1959. My family actually lived in the small town of Hornick. I was a very faithful user of Hornick's library, but I had read my way through every book, sometimes multiple times, so my parents decided I needed a wider horizon. ...

A K-12 state education budget deal has been reached by leaders of the Iowa legislature, and it appears to be headed for approval by both chambers, at long last. Such a funding agreement is more than a year overdue. The federal government is not the only example in this country of partisan gridlock...

What has been billed as the world's largest portable incinerator has been kickin' ash since Sunday at the Cherokee County Landfill in response to the tragic bird flu epidemic ravaging chicken and turkey operations throughout the Midwest, a majority of those in Northwest Iowa...

The Cherokee Area Farmers' Market will be at Cherokee Depot from 4 to 6 p.m. June through September. The current list of vendors, with items available during the first farmers' market of the season, to be held under the canopy at the historic Cherokee Depot:...

Cherokee Regional Medical Center (CRMC) officials are pleased to announce that they have entered into a formal agreement with Patricia J. Harrison, MD, to acquire her private medical practice. Under the new agreement, Patricia J. Harrison, MD, P.C. clinics in Cherokee and Aurelia will operate as part of Cherokee Regional Clinic (CRC). The change will take effect on Friday, June 5, 2015...

Ruth Evelyn Malcom of Cherokee, 101, passed away Friday morning, May 29, 2015 in the Good Samaritan Society at Holstein, Iowa. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, June 2nd, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Cherokee. Rev. Magrey deVega officiated. ...

Sally Henke of Cherokee, 90, passed away Monday, June 1, 2015 at Countryside Estates in Cherokee. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, June 4 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee, with Father Dan Guenther officiating. Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. ...