Stories from Wednesday, June 6, 2018

The first Cherokee Area Farmers Market of the season under the canopy at the Depot opens from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Thursday, June 7, 2018. Among items for sale at the Farmers market: Cindy Juhl will have freshly baked breads, green onions, spinach, lettuce, radishes, rhubarb, rhubarb ginger jam, dandelion jelly, handmade bags and zipper pouches, and garden plants (tomato, pepper, eggplant, and luffa); Wayne Nafe will have radishes, lettuce, kohlrabi, spinach, and rhubarb; Vicki Wood will have heirloom and Beefsteak tomatoes and full grown bonsai tomato plants; Scott & Deb Koch of Koch Vegetable Garden will have popcorn, lettuce, radishes, and kohlrabi;. ...

ESTHERVILLE - The Cherokee softball team continued its winning ways here Monday night with a resounding 10-1 victory over Estherville-LC in Lakes Conference action. Lindsay Williams was masterful on the mound for the winning Braves, striking out 13 while dialing a 6-hitter and zero walks with one earned run allowed...

The Cherokee baseball games here Saturday were canceled due to wet grounds. Cherokee’s youthful baseball team travels to Spirit Lake tonight and hosts Alta-Aurelia Thursday night.

John M. Mahoney of rural Pierson, Iowa, 69, passed away Monday afternoon, June 4, 2018 at Unity Point St. Luke’s Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa, following a several month battle with cancer. Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 9th, at 10:30 a.m. ...

The Ridge View softball team had a busy weekend.  On Friday, the Raptors hosted Lawton-Bronson in a Western Valley Conference action and the Raptors won by the score of 16-4 in four innings.  Picking up the win for the Raptors was Katie Binkman. who threw all four innings giving up six hits and one earned run, while striking out no one and walking four  Leading the way at the plate for the Raptors were Beth Meyer, who went 2-3 with five RBI, Kennedy Mason, who was 2-3 with four RBI, Madeline Else, who went 3-4 and scored three runs. ...

HOLSTEIN - Ridge View hosted Lawton-Bronson in a Western Valley Conference baseball game here on Friday, and though Lawton-Bronson jumped out to an early lead., the Raptors came storming back to earn the victory by a 9-5 score.  Logan Gross was the winning pitcher, giving up four earned runs on six hits in five innings, walking five and striking out four. ...

On Tuesday May 29th, the South O’Brien softball team had two big innings to score 15 of their 18 runs in an 18-4 win over MMCRU. The Wolverines scored six runs in the second inning thanks doubles by Bailey Tjossem and Gabby Heeren , three walks, and a deep sacrifice fly by Sydney Struve. MMCRU scored a run in the 2nd when Anna Friedrichsen had a solo home run and the Royals got another run in the 3rd to make the score 7-2...

The Marcus Meriden-Cleghorn Remsen Union baseball team split a pair of games last week. On Wednesday, the Royals traveled to Hinton for a War Eagle Conference game with the Blackhawks, and the Royals lot the contest 2-0. Royals’ coach TJ Schaefer commented, “MMCRU could not get the bats going as we only had two hits, and only two runners reaching third base all night. ...

ALTA - The Alta-Aurelia softball girls posted three more wins in games this week improve their season record to 7-0. On Thursday, the Warriors beat Remsen St. Mary’s, 11-1, in a non conference game at Alta, scoring eight runs in the first two innings on their way to the 5 inning win. ...

The Alta-Aurelia Warriors dropped a 4-0 non-conference game at Hinton May 31st for their first loss of the season, but rebounded the following night with a 8-5 Twin Lakes Conference win over East Sac County in Alta. Hinton got all four of the game’s runs Thursday in the bottom of the first inning thanks to four walks issued by the Warriors’ starting hurler, Logan McCoy. Alta-Aurelia was only able to muster two hits in the game...

MARCUS - United States Senator Chuck Grassley last week made a public appearance with Marcus Lumber at their recently remodeled store in downtown Marcus. The fourth-generation family business played host to the Senator as he made his way through all 99 Iowa counties in his typical annual tradition. Marcus Lumber toured their updated and expanded facilities with Grassley giving him a first-hand look at the thriving, family run businesses...

Connections area Agency is pleased to announce that the state of Iowa is continuing its Farmers Market voucher program for older Iowwans this year. Under this program, senior citizens who meet income requirements can obtain vouchers they can use at participating area Farmers’ Markets to buy $30 worth of fresh, locally grown produce...

This Sunday, June 10th, there will be a benefit for Victoria Dilocker on the Upper Level of the Cherokee Community Center from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. A Free Will Donation Meal will be served from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. A Silent Auction will be held from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.m with a Live Auction at 3 p.m...

The City’s oldest Main Street building - the wood-framed structure at 208 W. Main St. - is in the proces of being demolished this week after years of uncertainty and turmoil regarding its very existence, extended vacancy, dilapidated condition, and unknown future...

Kaye (Davis) Flathers of Sibley, Iowa,78, formerly of Cherokee, died Sunday, June 3, 2018 at Country View Manor in Sibley. Memorial service will be 11 a.m. Thursday, June 7th at Trinity Lutheran Church in Sibley, and burial will follow the lunch at Union Cemetery in Harris, Iowa. Visitation at Trinity Lutheran Church.will be one hour prior to the service...

Karen Becker of Storm Lake, Iowa, 66, died on Saturday, June 2, 2018 in Sioux City, Iowa. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at Lakeside Presbyterian Church in Storm Lake, and burial will be in the Storm Lake Cemetery. Visitation at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake. will take place on Friday, June 8, 2018 from 6 - 8 p.m. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is in charge of the arrangements...

A couple noteworthy developments in the world concern one that didn’t get enough publicity and renown, and another that got way too much. The first is that illegal refugee in France who scaled an apartment complex ON THE OUTSIDE to rescue a four-year old boy in the throes of death, dangling from the fourth-story balcony...

Summer is here and in full blast! I don’t understand why weather has to go above 90 degrees. What is the point in that? All you’re doing is making us sweat and killing plants. Come on, Mother Nature, get it together. It’s a big month for the Cherokee Public Library as it is the start of Summer Reading! Today, on the kid’s side, we have Steve Couch at the Sanford Museum at 1 PM. ...