Stories from Friday, February 24, 2017

SIOUX CITY - Alta-Aurelia's Carson Kruger scored six points in the second overtime period here Tuesday night to lead his team to an exciting 68-67 win over Hinton in the Championship game of Class 2A District 16 basketball. Kruger scored on a basket with 21 seconds left to give Alta/Aurelia a 66-65 lead and teammate Ryan Radke, the Warriors' lone senior, added a pair of free throws seconds later to secure a spot in the substate final for the 21-1 A-A team...

The Cherokee Community Theater will presnt the Pulitzer Prize-winning paly ‘Death of a Salesman’ at the Cherokee Community Center on March 10-12 and March 17-19. Show times will be 7 p.m. on Fridays and Sundays, and 2 p.m. on Sundays. In the drama, written by Arthur Miller, Willy Loma dreams of being a successful salesman - somebody who has both wealth and freedom. ...

Parents of children ages five and under are invited to join “Family Storyteller” at the Cherokee Public Library on Mondays from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., starting March 13. Free books, home activity kits, meals and crafts are all a part of a fun-filled, enjoyable evening...

When Lisa Naslund of Galva received a call asking her to come to Cherokee Washington High School recently, she wasn’t sure why, but she did appear at the Central Office at the appointed time, and upon her arrival, she received a very pleasant surprise...

After meeting in a closed session Tuesday, the Cherokee County Board of Supervisors, on a 5-0 vote,, authorized Cherokee County Engineer Brandon Billings to pursue a proposed land acquisition project in Spring Township for its reported gravel rights...

ORANGE CITY, Iowa—Northwestern College recently signed an articulation agreement with Western Iowa Tech Community College (WITCC), based in Sioux City, that will allow students graduating with an associate’s degree in nursing to seamlessly complete their BSN online, through Northwestern’s Graduate School & Adult Learning...

There is a remote island on Lake Superior where people have been mining copper for the last 5,000 years. Today that island - Isle Royale - is a national park, and home to some of the best preserved archaic aged copper-working sites. Samantha Olson has dedicated her graduate research to understanding the people who mined copper on the island thousands of years ago, and she excavated two Middle-Late Archaic sites on the north side of Isle Royale National Park to determine the nature of the sites. ...

VERMILLION, SD - The nationally recognized University of South Dakota Chamber Singers will be touring through South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota during the university’s spring break from March 3 - 10, and the tour will include a concert in Cherokee at 1 p.m. on Saturday March 4th at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 531 West Main Street...

Cherokee Regional Medical Center Hospice is offering “Living with Loss”, a 5-week grief support program on Tuesdays, March 7 through April 4, 2017. The program is free of charge, and is offered to anyone who has experienced a loss through death three months or more prior to attendance. This format combines grief education with peer support in a small group atmosphere...

With the recent warm weather, the Cherokee Police Department has experienced an increase in reports of dogs getting loose. Police remind everyone that for allowing dogs to run at large there is a $25 fine for 1st offense, $50 fine for 2nd offense, and $100 for 3rd offense if the dogs are caught and taken to Valley Vet, plus the fees that come from Valley Vet for room and board...

Steve and Connie Schwarzkopf of Sibley are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Abby Schwarzkopf, to Derek Lee, son of Mike and Angie Fiedler. Abby, a 2010 graduate of Sibley-Ocheyedan High School, earned her Associates of Science degree in Radiologic Technology from Minnesota West Community & Technical College, and is currently employed as an x-ray technician for Mercy Medical Center and St. Luke’s Regional Hospital in Sioux City...

Melburn P. Schmidt of Cherokee, age 100, passed away Saturday, February 18, 2017, at Careage Hills Nursing Home in Cherokee. Memorial services will be held at a later date. The Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee is assisting with arrangements, and online condolences may be sent to the family at www.greenwoodfuneral.com...

Luella A. Crocker of rural Correctionville, 101, passed away Tuesday morning, February 21, 2017 at her home. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, February 25th at 2:30 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, with Pastor Bob Blair officiating, and burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery in Cherokee. ...

James D. “Jet” Jensen, 67, of Woodhull, Illinois, formerly of Cherokee, died Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at home. Cremation has been accorded, and funeral services will be 6 p.m. on Monday, February 27, 2017 at the United Church of Woodhull. Private Burial will be in the Clover Chapel Cemetery at a later date. ...

With a few more months of winter ahead of us and snow and ice likely to cover many of our walkways and roadways after this week’s predicted inclement weather, the Iowa Department of Public Health warns that slips, trips, and falls can cause not only debilitating injuries, they’re the second leading cause of accidental death in the United States...

The stockholders of the Quimby State Bank held a meeting Tuesday and expressed themselves so well pleased with the conditions that they re-elected all the old officials, as follows : President, A.J. Clark; vice president, Eric Ritz; cashier, F.M. Buel; directors, E.F. Ritz, P.M. Peterson, A.J. Clark,Henry Beljack, This. W. Fee, Geo. Clark and F.M. Buel...

JOHNSTON - Iowa Public Television is proud to be the home for live coverage of Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union Championships, on air and streaming at Iptv.org. This year's action begins next week with coverage of the 2017 IGHSAU Iowa Farm Bureau Girls State Basketball Championships at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines...

The Boyden-Hull boys got off to a 10-2 first quarter lead over South O’Brien in 1A District basketball play Tuesday, and the Comets extended that lead to a 32- 9 margin at the half. The teams played a much closer game in the second half, but that first half performance by Boyden-Hull just proved too much for the Wolverines to overcome, and they ultimately fell to the Comets by a final score of 61-42...

There are 10 bridges in the City that will soon be inspected at an estimated cost of $5,000, with those results due by mid-summer of this year. Most of the Railroad Creek bridges on the east side of U.S. Highway 59 date back to 1909, according to records from City Hall. The East Cherry, East Cedar and West Bluff Street bridges have been built more recently...