Stories from Monday, October 12, 2015

Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn celebrated Homecoming last week.High Schol celebrated its Homecoming last week. Shown here are the members of there Royal Court and the class attendants

(Second of Two Parts) PRIMGHAR - "The cost is coming down," answered O'Brien County Highland Wind Farm project manager Adam Jablonski when he responded to a question about whether or not the cost of building new wind energy was still going down. MidAmerican Energy Company (MEC) hosted a media event on Oct. ...

The Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and Remsen-Union School districts begin a whole-grade sharing agreement as of the start of the fiscal year July 1, 2016. As of the first semester of 2016-17 school year, the high school students will attend school in Marcus and the middle school students will attend school in Remsen. Both districts will maintain elementary schools...

The Cherokee Hometown Shopko Store will have a Cherokee Chamber Red Ribbon Cutting on Friday, Nov. 6, and open for business that day.

The Volkswagen company has issued apologies for making fraudulent claims of clean burning diesel vehicles and for creating devices to cheat on emission tests. An apology is not nearly enough. No individual has yet to be identified as responsible for the fraudulent behavior. In the likely event that someone is required to take the blame, the probable course of action will be that VW will offer up an individual sacrifice for behavior that obviously required numerous knowing participants...

LAKE CITY - The Twin Lakes Conference Volleyball Tournament will take place on Tuesday October 13th and Thursday October 15th. All teams will play both night. Teams have been seeded into three pools, based on their finish in the conference regular season...

REMSEN - Here are the latest results from bowling at the Maple Lanes in Remsen, where many Cherokee bowlers have started bowling since the Cherokee Bowl closed. High team game, Charlies/Connors, 659; High team series, Charlies/Connors, 1760; High game, Karen Klein & Lorelei Klein, 193; High series, Karen Klein, 523...

BOONE- The Storm Lake Tornado swimmers continued their winning ways by picking up a pair of dual meet wins in Boone on Tuesday Oct 6. Against the host team, Boone, the score was 60 to 41, and against the other competing team, Carroll, the score was 57 to 44. Boone and Carroll tied at 51 points each in the other dual of the night. These wins were despite being the only team without divers, which gave each of the other teams a seven point advantage over the Storm Lake squad...

ALTA - The Alta-Aurelia girls concluded their regular volleyball season here Thursday with a 3-0 win over conference rival Storm Lake St. Mary's, winning by game scores of 25-20, 25-21, 25-10. Micah Barns had 11 kills for the Warriors, while Lauren Rohwer had eight and Erin Lockin seven. The Patton sisters, Annika and Lexie, led the team in assists with 11 and 10, respectively, while while Annika was 17-17 serving, while B arnes was 14-17 and had two ace serves...

KINGSLEY - The Kingsley-Pierson Invitational Cross Country Meet took place last week on the Brookside Golf Course here, and runners from two schools in the Chronicle Times coverage area participated. Ben Aberson of South O'Brien was the individual champion in the Boys Varsity race, clocking in at 17:17.54 over the 5k course. ...

Fifth-ranked Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn (6-0) hosted dangerous Harris-Lake Park (4-2) in pivotal 8-player District football action in Marcus Friday night. In other area prep football action, the 5-1 Cherokee Braves traveled to Central Lyon/George-Little Rock (2-4) in Rock Rapids, Alta-Aurelia (1-5) hosted Akron-Westfield (4-2) in Alta, South O'Brien (3-3) traveled to Lawton-Bronson (4-2), Ridge View (5-1) played at Sibley-Ocheyedan (2-4), and River Valley (0-7) traveled to Kingsley-Pierson (6-1) on 8-player action.. ...

The Cherokee Washington High volleyball team saw its seniors go out in style with a 3-0 sweep of Spencer in the final home match of the season for WHS and for outgoing coach Julie Hummel. Cherokee captured game scores of 25-9, 25-18, 25-22. Lead servers for the winning Cherokee club were Paityn Hagberg 19-21 and three aces, followed by Kaely Hummel 17-18 and four aces, Payton Slaughter 12-13 and four aces, Lily Anderson 8-8 and an ace, and Alexia Gerdes 8-9 and one ace...

Amanda Grimes and Kyle Evers of Sioux Rapids are happy to announce the birth of their baby boy, who was born on October 5, 2015. Kyle Ray Evers Jr. was born at 8:38 a.m., weighed 8 lbs, measured 20 inches long, and was welcomed home by his brother, Donomic Grimes, and his sister, Briah Evers...