Stories from Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Energy Transfer (ET), the parent Company of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) that runs through Cherokee County, is in the early stages of exploring the possibility of substantially increasing the flow rate capacity for their 30-inch diameter pipeline. Currently, 570,000 barrels per day (bpd) of western North Dakota Bakken crude oil flows through the pipeline that was constructed across northeast Cherokee County and southwest O’Brien County in 2016...

Six cousins were all high energy and excited early Saturday morning as they prepared their calves to show at the Cherokee County Fair. The children are, background, from left, Mesa, Cole and Thomas Patterson, along with, foreground, from left, Karley, Chase and Reagan Smith. Parents of the children are Nate and Molly Patterson and Zach and Renae Smith...

Many people think they need to travel miles to see a special attraction and forget what they have “in their own backyard.”  One special attraction is located in the southwestern corner of Buena Vista County—the Hanover Village.  Often a group restores and maintains a historic building, but the Hanover Historical Society has restored a village...

Colleen Joyce (Hanson) Hultman, born on September 28, 1934, to Ervin and Virgie (Rhone) Hanson, passed away peacefully with family by her side on July 19, 2019. She grew up in Meriden, Iowa and graduated high school in 1952. Colleen played varsity 6 on 6 basketball and made it to the state tournament twice. ...

Morey Allen Carlson, age 57 of Cherokee, IA passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, July 21, 2019, at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center in Cherokee. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 25, 2019 at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee. ...

On May 23, Hy-Vee Driver Chris Johnson became the Cherokee Distribution Center’s 24th driver to achieve 1 Million consecutive safe driving miles. Chris set out very early on the morning of May 23rd delivering a load to St. Joseph, Missouri. He hit the 1-million-mile mark just outside of Rodney, Iowa on his way back home...

Although we’ve been properly castigated by folks who certainly know the castigating process, we’ve yet to learn how much corporate angst we caused with our recent story about Lopez Foods reportedly buying the Iowa Food Group and former Tyson Foods plant in Cherokee...

Although we’ve been properly castigated by folks who certainly know the castigating process, we’ve yet to learn how much corporate angst we caused with our recent story about Lopez Foods reportedly buying the Iowa Food Group and former Tyson Foods plant in Cherokee...

I belong to a Podcaster’s group on Facebook. It’s for makers and listeners of podcasts that are in the “Movies by Minutes” category. What is that? Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like. They break up movies into one minute chunks and talk about them minute by minute, sometimes for over an hour. ...

A gratifying benefit in this business of covering local high school sports is the people you meet a long the way. This work provides me with the opportunity to build relationships with the folks I work with on a daily basis. Many of those acquaintances become lifelong friends, and I’m humbled to have a long list of players and coaches who remain close friends to this day...