Stories from Monday, April 24, 2017

We hope everyone who can will take the opportunity to visit the Vietnam “Moving Wall” at the Cherokee County Fairgrounds June 15-19. As Cherokee County Veteran Affairs Director Dana Evans and local veterans work to raise the funds needed to bring the wall here, donations are needed and accepted at Veterans Affairs, 228 1/2 W. Main St., Cherokee, Iowa 51012...

This is most likely the last week of the current legislative session. The state budget has passed, and awaits the Governor’s approval or veto. This is also the time of year when a few major policy bills are finalized. That has been the case this week...

SCHALLER - The Cherokee and Alta-Aurelia Trap Shooters, members of the American Trap League, competed in a meet in Schaller, hosted by the Ida County Trap team, on Saturday April 8th The Cherokee County Shooting Sports Intermediate/ Advanced squad of Simon Mummert, Joshua Lauck, Kolton Stowater, Taylor Korleski and Caden Thomas placed second in their division, with Lauck placing third individually, while Chrissa Deeds of the Cherokee club placed 7th in the Girls’ Senior Division...

EMMETSBURG - The Cherokee Shooting Sports Club competed in a meet at Emmetsburg on Saturday April 15th, with the Intermediate/Advanced team of Simon Mummert, Evan Appleby, Joshua Lauck, Kolton Stowater and Taylor Korleski finishing 4th in their division - missing 3rd place by just two birds, and Sydney Lauck finishing second individually in the Rookie division...

Alecia Maurer of Cherokee found the Gold Egg in the Cherokee Chronicle Times Easter Egg Hunt Contest Thursday afternoon. Alecia is pictured here with Chad Carey of Carey's Furniture, which sponsored the Gold Egg. Finding the Gold Egg brought Maurer $1,000 worth of furniture from Carey's Furniture...

Amber and Joey Anderson of Cherokee are happy to announce the birth of their baby boy on April 17, 2017. Sebastyian Charles Lee Anderson was born at 4:16 p.m., and he weighed 8 lbs., measured 20 1/2 inches long, and was welcomed home by his big brother, Malikye...

**April 22 - Claudine Bugh of Cherokee **April 24 - Randy and Marcia Reeves of Cherokee

Sealed bids were opened Thursday afternoon at City Hall regarding five surplus City lots, with the highest bidder to be awarded the respective purchase pending City Council action at Tuesday’s regular Council meeting. Four of the five lots received bids totaling an estimated $6,500...

On March 22nd, five Washington High School seniors and one sponsor boarded a charter bus for a trip down to the NASA Campus in Houston, TX. These students joined several other students from high schools in Northwest Iowa. The WHS students included Matt Stines, Sam Comley, Kayla Reidemann, Mady Hodgdon, and Max De Vos...

HOLSTEIN - Woodbury Central won a five - team boys’ golf meet here on Thursday with a team score of 158 strokes for nine holes, and the Wildcats also had the meet medalist and runner-up medalist, with Anthony Gallagher shooting a round of 36 and teammate Dustin Widman totaling 37...

IDA GROVE - The OA-BCIG Coed Track Meet was run here on a cold and windy night Thursday, and the Ridge View teams were among the eight teams who braved the elements. The Ridge View boys finished seventh in the team standings, scoring 30 pointsThe Raptors’ top finish was in the 4 x 100, where Jake Mitchell, Tyler Wingert, Ryan McGure and Caden Wandrey finished second, with a time of 47.48. ...

On Tuesday, March 14th, four teams of Cherokee Washington High School students competed in the TEAMS (formerly known as JETS) Competition at Dordt College in Sioux Center. The four Braves teams competed against six other teams from Western Christian and Trinity Christian High Schools in Hull. TEAMS (JETS) is a problem-based engineering competition in which students work together and solve engineering problems geared for introductory level college engineering students...