Stories from Monday, July 10, 2017

We strongly support the right of Iowans to possess firearms for self-protection and sporting purposes but a ban on anybody but on-duty law enforcement officers from carrying firearms into courthouses makes sense. Decently, Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady officially banned firearms from Iowa courthouses and other areas controlled by the judicial branch...

CHEROKEE - Cherokee baseball surrendered five runs to Sioux Central in the top of the first inning in a non-conference baseball game here Wednesday, and though the Braves whittled it down to a 5-4 deficit in the 2nd, it was all Sioux Central from there on as the Rebels posted a 16-4 win over the Braves...

ALTA - The Alta-Aurelia girls opened Regional Tournament play here Thursday with a six inning 10-0 win over Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove. The Falcons had advanced to the second round game with a victory over South Central Calhoun on Wednesday...

CORRECTIONVILLE - The River Valley girls won a pair of Class 1A Regional Tournament games here last week, beating Storm Lake St. Mary’s on Monday by a score of 11-4 and then scoring 11 runs in the 6th and 7th innings to top Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire, 16-6...

HOLSTEIN - In non - conference baseball action here Thursday, Storm Lake scored two runs in the 1st inning to take the early lead over host Ridge View. The Raptors then plated four runs in the 2nd inning to take the lead, only to see Storm Lake tie it up with two runs in the 3rd inning. ...

Cushing - The fifth and final Uncle Ben 5K Run/Walk sponsored by Anfinson Farm Store has been slated to be held here Saturday, August 19, at 9 a.m. Each of the last four years, nearly 250 participants have showed up for the event, doubling the size of this small town in Woodbury County as they have raised almost $35,000 for local elementary schools...

A resolution to the ongoing problem of the pesky, messy turkey vultures roosting on the cell tower behind the former Garfield School Building on West Willow Street may be a matter of decibels, according to City Hall. City Administrator Sam Kooiker said the City has been in communication with tower owner U.S. ...

The Cherokee County Pork Producers will conduct a cookout on Wednesday, July 26, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.in the parking lot of the Fareway Grocery Store in Cherokee. The proceeds will go for a scholarship for a new teacher in Cherokee County. Pop will be donated by Chesterman’s...

Kerisa Pingel, Educator at the Sanford Museum, discussed artifacts and recreations of artifacts that give clues as to how the prehistoric people of this area lived. She also showed kids at the July 6 session of the museum’s Summer Camp, a model of the oval dwelling used by the Mill Creek people. These were permanent dwellings rather than the portable tipis used by more nomadic cultures of the Great Plains...

The Cherokee Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) will host its annual Conservation Tour on Tuesday, Aug 8. Registration will begin at 4 p.m. at the USDA Service Center – 314 Lake Street in Cherokee. At 4:30 p.m., participants will head to the first stop in Cherokee 14 and 23 to see and hear about the new Nitrate Monitor that was recently installed on Mill Creek and to look at a CRP field right next to it (CP38E). ...

Tomorrow (Tuesday), all six Chronicle Times area schools will open District Baseball Tournament play. Results of the games will be in the Wednesday edition of the webpage.. In 2A, Cherokee Washington hosts Maple Valley/Anthon-Oto and Alta-Aurelia plays Pocahontas Area at Kuemper Catholic (Carroll)...