Stories from Wednesday, July 5, 2017

On Saturday June 24th, the Iowa Games held qualifying rounds for the Trap portion of the games at varying locations around the state. The Alta-Aurelia Trap team competed at the Sportsman County Park near Cylinder, Ia. Those competitors finishing in the top 3 will advance on to the finals on July 15th at a range near Elkhart (just north on Ankeny). ...

ROCKWELL CITY-The Cherokee Swim Team competed in their second meet of the AHEELA Conference season here Wed. June 21 where they swam against Webster City and Rockwell City. The team faced some good competition this meet and still had some great times, great swims and even many first place finishes...

ALTA - The Alta-Aurelia girls hosted the traditionally tough Newell-Fonda team here in Twin Lakes softball action last Wednesday, and Coach Dave Turnquit’s Warriors trailed from the third inning on, losing to their conference rival by a final score of 7-4...

If any child is bored this summer – well, that is their own choosing! There is so much to do in this little town: Our library programs, the Wellness Center, the County Extension Office, the Sanford Museum events, day camps, go-away camps, Parks and Recreation Department, the sports programs, 4-H events, we even had the circus in town recently! The list goes on…...

The town of Washta will be celebrating its 150th birthday celebration on July 6 and 7 in 2018. A committee has been established and is making plans now. Anyone interested may serve on the committee. The committee meets on the third Wednesday night of the month at the Washta Community Center at 6:30 p.m...

Caryn Kepford of Winterset, Iowa, is the featured artist for July at the Sanford Museum. Kepford received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Art History from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1982 and her Master of Fine Arts in Figurative Painting in 2014 from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Calif. She lived most of her adult life in Maine, having been inspired by its rugged, rocky coastline and benefitting from the legacies of great landscape painters...

The Cherokee Area Farmers Market (CAFM) at the Cherokee Depot, will add monthly second Saturday market dates in addition to the every Thursday markets currently scheduled, according to Jim Adamson, CAFM Market Manager. Currently the CAFM occurs under the canopy at the Cherokee Depot each Thursday,...

Anthony Sigaty, Verizon Wireless store manager in Cherokee, cut the red ribbon at the Cherokee Chamber of Commerce Coffee and Ribbon Cutting and Verizon Wireless Grand Opening on Friday, June 30. The store, located on North Highway 59, between Taco John’s and Robinson’s Furniture and Floor Covering, is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday...

Gerald Arthur “Jerry” Conley, 81, of Cherokee, Iowa passed away Saturday morning, July 1, 2017. Memorial services will be held on Saturday, July 8th, at 10:30 a.m. at the St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Cherokee, Iowa, with Rev. Cris Decious officiating. ...

Martin and Melissa Kohn of Cherokee, Iowa, announce the engagement of their daughter Amanda Kohn to Benjamin Lang, son of Giselle and David Lang of Aspendale, Australia. The bride-elect, a 2010 Cherokee Washington High School graduate, received her bachelor’s degrees cum laude at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA. Amanda is now a master’s student at Tufts University studying Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and works at the Stockholm Environment Institute...