Stories from Monday, April 4, 2016

Berniece Woltman of Cherokee, age 97, passed away Friday morning, April 1, 2016 in the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at the Memorial Presbyterian Church in Cherokee on Tuesday, April 5th, at 10:30 a.m., with Rev. Ken Fells officiating, and burial will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery at Cherokee. ...

Kyle and Karla Prunty of Cleghorn announce the engagement of their daughter, Becca Prunty of Council Bluffs, to Tony Davis of Council Bluffs, son of Bob and Tina Davis of Council Bluffs. Becca graduated from Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn High School in 2008. She earned her Associates degree in respiratory care in 2011 and a Bachelor's degree in Health Care Administration in 2013, and she is currently employed as a Respiratory Therapist at Pulmonary Medicine Institute in Omaha, Nebraska...

April 2 - Paulette Herman of Cherokee April 4 - L R Waggoner of Cherokee

Bill Sipes (right) has retired from the Cherokee Fire Department after 30 Years and 8 Months of service. Members of the Fire Department thank Bill for his service and wish him the best of luck with his "time off." Fire Chief Greg Eaton (left) made the presentation to Bill...

At the Tuesday, March 22, O'Brien County Board of Supervisors meeting, O'Brien County engineer Tom Snyder reported results of a meeting he'd had with Mortenson Construction Company project managers about when work on the next O'Brien County wind farm would begin...

Candidates for Tomahawk Queen are (left to right) Hannah White, Elizabeth Herrera, Chelsea Cave and Jennifer Baker (not pictured - Abbie Plum). King candidates are (left to right) Charlie Wych, Evan Wharton, Derek Nixon, Steven Lundquist and Drake Bechtel...

Archaeologists Robin Lillie and Jennifer Mack will present a program titled "Bones where there's not supposed to be any" at the Sanford Museum at 6 p.m. on April 6th. The program is free and open to the public.

Cherokee Regional Medical Center (before 2005 -- Sioux Valley Memorial Hospital) is observing its 100 year anniversary this year and a kick-off event for the celebration was a program on the history of the hospital and on the history of medical practice in the county even before the hospital was founded...

Of the five Cherokee County offices up for election in 2016, three will be challenged in the primary, the general election, or both. These include the sheriff (Dave Scott is not seeking reelection) and two of the county board of supervisors seats. For two county offices, the incumbents are running unopposed for re-election -- the auditor and one supervisor seat. ...

VERMILLION, S.D. - On Tuesday March 29th the Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn/Remsen Union girls competed here in the Dakota Dome here at the Dan Lennon Indoor Track Meet, one of the biggest indoor meets in the Midwest, Lady Eagle Coach Lonnie Boekhout commented: "With over 40 teams from South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota here, it was a great learning experience for us. We really competed well despite missing quite a bit of training with the snow day last week, followed by Easter break."...

Cherokee's Kenny Bern poses with his award after his recent induction into the Iowa Bowling Hall of Fame in Des Moines. Photo contributed.

This week will be a big one for area track and field athletes, as two long-standing early season meets are scheduled to take place. Tomorrow (Tuesday), the Ridge View Relays, formerly known as The Holstein Relays, will take place in Holstein. The meet was originally scheduled for last Friday...