Stories from Wednesday, February 27, 2019

What was forecast as a few inches for the weekend in Northwest Iowa turned into a full-blown blizzard by late Saturday afternoon. It started out with freezing rain and falling temperatures that turned into heavy snow. Later in the afternoon the wind picked up, and so did the blizzard warning...

SIOUX CITY -- Aiming to "shine a light" on its own "shameful history," the Diocese of Sioux City made public Monday the names of 28 priests credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 100 children while serving the Northwest Iowa diocese. Unlike some other Catholic dioceses, Sioux City has never before released such a list of priests, despite repeated calls from victims and advocacy groups to do so...

Germayne  I.  Johnson, 90, of Sutherland, Iowa, passed away Monday afternoon, February 25, 2019 in the Heartland Care Center in Marcus, Iowa.   Funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 2nd, at 10:30 a.m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Cherokee, Iowa. ...

Jessica and Cola Chanthavysouk, Alta, are the proud parents of their new son Kyrin Joseph-Lee Chanthavysouk. Kyrin was born at Cherokee Regional Medical Center on February 22, 2109 at 6:07 PM. He weighed 9 pounds 0 ounces and was 21 inches long. Brothers Trenton and Zander and two sisters Alainah and Eden welcomed him home...

Pipestone National Monument, in southwestern Minnesota was created in 1937 to protect the place where American Indians quarry a red stone, called pipestone or catlinite.  The 301-acre park has many different kinds of archaeological sites within its borders. ...

MARCUS - The Marcus Community Center will be celebrating its 35th anniversary on March 2, 2019. Come check out the newly remodeled center. Lots to offer - food, trivia game, raffle and music! Trivia game will feature Big Daddy from 99.5 radio, and emcee Jerry Moser. ...

Front row: Greyson Johnson, Taelyn Hand, Bodhi McDaniels, Ben Schumann, Isabella Gunn, Oliver Loughlin, Alena Swartz, Ashton Beazley, Khloe Gravenish, Lux Miller, Tye Mann. Middle row: Kenzie Stephens, Bailee Kohn, Kylie Anderson, Conner Lauck, Johnalin Schipper, Chloe Cedar, Ava Kremer, Alana Goble, Amaria Harman, Emerson Lucas, Alex Leeds, Tanner Horton. ...

here’s a little known National Custodial Worker’s Recognition Day each October - a day set aside to show appreciation to men and women who keep our places of employment clean after we mess them up. Custodial workers work hard and diligently behind the scenes and are under-appreciated for the vital service they provide day after day (mostly night after night and weekends!) keeping schools, hospitals and clinics, office buildings, factories, banks, courthouses, city halls, museums, churches and other buildings clean and spotless while under constant scrutiny.. ...

March is just around the corner! Flowers will be blooming soon (haha), the snow will be gone (hahaha), and the roads will be wet with rain and not snow melt (hahahahaha). Yes, it’s a time of beginnings and, in January, our new work based learning student started with us. Here’s Alisanne:...

Aplington-Parkersburg's Chelsey Poppens are the 2019 inductees into the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union's Hall of Fame. The trio will be inducted Saturday, March 2 at the 100th Iowa Girls State Basketball Tournament.       Almquist-Woodin starred in the forward court at Pocahontas High School from 1964 to 1968. ...

ORANGE CITY - The rubber match went to Remsen St. Mary’s, and with it a third straight ticket to the boys’ state basketball tournament next week in Des Moines. It took an overtime to do it, but St. Mary’s (19-6) ended South O’Brien’s (20-5) season with a 51-45 OT victory in Class 1A Substate play here Monday night. The evenly balanced teams battled to a regulation 40-40 deadlock, setting the table for the climatic overtime...