Stories from Friday, May 27, 2016

On May 14, the 53 Iowa Regional Blue Ribbon winners from across the state came together in Fairfield at the Iowa Artists 2016 State Show, which was showing 57 pieces of art. The artists gathered for a show and jury of all the first place art from the ten Iowa Regional shows at the Fairfield Art & Convention Center...

GRAETTINGER - The Alta-Aurelia softball girls started their season off on a great note Tuesday, downing Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire 15-0 in five innings. Abby Kraemer pitched the complete game shutout for the Warriors, giving up just one hit and walking five while fanning 13 batters...

GALVA - The Ridge View softball team opened the season Tuesday with an exciting come- from- behind 5-4 win againist Kingsley-Pierson in 8 innings. Both teams played good defense and put the ball in play. Picking up the win on the mound for the Raptors was freshmen Emerson Else, who threw all 8 innings, giving up three earned runs on six hits, walking four and striking out two. ...

REMSEN - Maple Lanes Bowl recently had two teams travel to Fort Dodge to compete in the USBC Iowa Youth Championship Tournament, which is held at the Family Bowling Center & Ridgewood Lanes. The tournament ran from April 2nd till May 1st. 269 teams and a total of 1076 bowlers bowled in this tournamen. The doubles event had 545 teams and singles event had 1052 entered, with each bowler bowling a total of nine games over a two- day weekend...

The Iowa High School Baseball Coaches' Association has released its Pre-season rankings for Iowa High School baseball teams. Here are the Class 2A and 1A Rankings: 1. Clear Lake (30-11); 2. Hinton (26-6); 3. Wilton (25-6); 4. Treynor (27-8); 5. New Hampton (25-7); 6. Monticello (21-11); 7. Van Meter (26-10);...

KINGSLEY - The River Valley girls' golf team won the Class 1A Regional Final Tournament here Tuesday behind meet medalist Alycen Knaack, who carded an 82 over 18 holes on the Brookside Golf Course. RV had a team score of 369, 22 shots better than second place Akron-Westfield. Both teams will move on to the Class 1A State Tournament at Jester Park in Granger on May 31 and June 1st...

The strong language directed at the representative of Tyson Foods at the May 24 Cherokee City Council meeting was appropriate. Tyson Foods is interfering with efforts to encourage a food processing company moving into the now abandoned building. Tyson does not own the Cherokee facility, but rather they have a long-term lease from the out-of-state owner that doesn't expire until July 2020. Tyson will not release the lease to any company that competes with Tyson...

As of May 23, Brandon Billings officially became the Cherokee County Engineer, having passed state examinations necessary for certification as an engineer. As assistant engineer, Billings was the primary engineering advisor for the county, but prior to certification, the county needed to make arrangements for oversight by a certified engineer...

Should the United States allow companies to employ people, including children, as virtual slaves who live in poverty and work long hours in horrific conditions? Should we allow companies to have little or no oversight over worker safety, or over the amount of pollution spewed into the environment and no accountability to employees when they become injured or are too old to be of use?...

Phil Hamman has a personal connection to the grisly murders of four teenagers at Gitchie Manitou State Park in Lyon County, Iowa, in 1973. He was best friends with one of the victims, knew the other three, and knows the lone survivor of the massacre, a girl who was 13 at the time, Sandra Cheskey...

Due to the Memorial Day holiday, there will be no May 30 edition of the Chronicle Times. The next edition will be on Wednesday, June 1.

The 25th annual Friends of Conservation Fun Day will be held on Sunday, June 5 at Silver Sioux Park. Prairie stew cooked over an open fire will be served from noon until 4 p.m. Laura Kohn, Cherokee County Conservation Director will conduct a session of orienting at 1 p.m...

The Cherokee School District Free Lunch program, which will be held on weekdays from June 1 through July 1, will provide more than free food, according to Cara Jacobson. The lunch will be served from 11 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday at the Cherokee Middle School,...

Following the closure of the Tyson Foods meat processing plant in Cherokee in September of 2014, the plant has remained vacant and Tyson has hindered efforts to market the facility. The building, constructed in 1965, does not belong to Tyson, but Tyson has a long-term lease that does not expire until July of 2020 and Tyson has the option of renewing the lease at that time...

Warriors top WC, 10- 5 MOVILLE - The Alta-Aurelia boys visited Moville Wednesday and came away with a 10-5 baseball win over host Woodbury Central. Jack Glienke started on the mound for the Warriors and he went 4 2/3 innings and struck out six. A-A Coach Dan Wendel said that Glienke ran into some trouble with his command in the 5th inning, but adds that he was very happy with how he pitched the first night out. ...

HOLSTEIN - Ridge View beat Kingsley-Pierson 9-2 in baseball action here on Tuesday. Colt Wandrey hit a two-run triple and Joe Kenny also drove in a pair of runs for the Raptors, and Grant Anderson and Peyton Boyle each stole two bases and scored two runs...