Stories from Monday, December 11, 2017

Attention all Cherokee Braves' sports fans, past and present. Mark your calendars for Friday, Dec. 22 and plan to attend a 10-year anniversary reunion celebration of Cherokee's 2007 State Baseball Champions. The event will feature a program at Washington High School beginning at 6 p.m. and will honor all the players and coaches responsible for Cherokee's only state baseball championship...

The annual Wonderful World of Christmas Lighted Parade in Cherokee was held on the evening of December 7th this year. Mollie Loughlin was voted in as "Scrooge" this year, and served as the Grand Marshal of the Parade.

The transition period regarding the completion of Cherokee Mayor Mark Murphy’s term and the beginning of Mayor-elect Craig Schmidt’s first term is going well, according to City Administrator Sam Kooiker. Both men are working closely with the City staff and other community officials to make the transition as smooth as possible. Schmidt is retired and pledges he is willing to be a “full-time” Mayor. The position pays $500 per month salary...

(Third in a series on the 2018 Cherokee Jazz & Blues Festival) King of The Tramps is an original roots-rock group, based in Auburn, Iowa, whose sound calls upon influences from modern roots rock, rhythm and blues, and southern and country rock. Their sound has been described as “whiskey gospel.”...

They come from the northern plains of South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin—braves with woman and children in tow. Dogs and women alike pulling travoises behind them, heavily laden with food, supplies and buffalo hides. They cut groves along a path that has been used for over a century. There are no horses to do this job as they have yet to be introduced to this early native American’s world. Destination — the bluffs overlooking the Little Sioux River just west of Correctionville...