Stories from Friday, September 4, 2015

EMMETSBURG - The Alta-Aurelia volleyball team revealed true grit here Tuesday night, overcoming an 0-2 game deficit to prevail 3-2 over a good Emmetsburg E-Hawk team here. The Warriors of coach Jeannie Henningsen claimed game scores of 17-25, 20-25, 25-18, 25-16, 15-7 to win the hotly contested match...

MARCUS - The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn volleyball team opened its 2015 season with a 3-0 romp past Clay Central-Everly, claiming game scores of 25-21, 25-7, 25-5. Emily Moser led the Eagles in hitting with a nifty 21-22 effort and six kills, followed by Sarah Dreckman 7-9 and four kills, Ashley Hurd 5-6 and one kill,...

ORANGE CITY - The Cherokee Washington High volleyball team opened its 2015 season with a 2-1 match record and a third-place finish at the rugged MOC-Floyd Valley Tournament Saturday. Cherokee beat Sheldon 2-0 on game scores of 21-15, 21-16; lost to tourney champion Sergeant Bluff-Luton 0-2 on game scores of 5-21, 17-21; and defeated host MOC-FV 2-0 on game scores of 21-14, 21-16...

In her Aug. 26 column, Mary Jo Ruppert listed her top 10 favorite books and challenged her readers to come up with a list of their own. Since I always do what my librarian tells me to do, I have compiled my own list. I gave myself a couple of ground rules. I limited myself to only one book per author and I did not overthink the list. If I had spent hours pondering my favorite books, the list might have been a bit different, but probably not much different...

During the discussion at the Sept. 1 Cherokee County Board of Supervisors meeting, board chairman Dennis Bush addressed the matter of county engineer pay before the board voted to authorize an employment contract for Brandon Billings as an assistant engineer...

Bobby Jindal, Louisiana governor and Republican candidate for president shares many views with other Republicans running for president, but believes his record as Louisiana governor sets him apart. "We have nine current or former Republican governors running for President and there is only one who has actually cut government spending, you are actually looking at him right now," Jindal told people gathered at Danny's Sports Spot in Cherokee on Sept. ...