Stories from Wednesday, September 4, 2019

At last week’s brief Cherokee City Council meeting, Lenny Larson of ISG Engineering discussed a proposal to provide the City with professional engineering services for the design of a new interceptor sewer and related improvements in the Central Street area, a project that would exceed $1 million...

Over the next three months, Cherokee Regional Medical Center is working to update the 2016 Cherokee Regional Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). The goal of this assessment update is to understand progress in addressing community health needs cited in the 2016 CHNA report and to collect up-to-date community health perceptions...

Wilbur F. Ferrin, age 80 of Springfield, MO and formerly of Marcus, IA passed away Wednesday, August 28, 2019, at Cox Medical Center in Springfield. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at the Greenwood-Schubert Funeral Home in Cherokee. ...

Ron Hicks Good, age 65 of Meriden, IA passed away Thursday, August 22, 2019 at a Sioux Falls hospital. A family graveside service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, August 31, 2019, at Oak Hill Cemetery, west of Cherokee on C38. Friends and family are welcome to join the family at 11:30 a.m. ...

Delores Elaine Grauer, 90, went to her Heavenly home on Thursday, August 29, 2019 at Heartland Care Center in Marcus, Iowa. Funeral services will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 3, 2019 at Peace Lutheran Church in Marcus. Rev. Kevin Roop will officiate. ...

Jill and Darren Kenyan, Andover, MN, are the proud parents of a son, Hayden Michael Kenyon. He was born at United Hospital in St. Paul, MN on August 19, 2019. He weighed 7 pounds 10 ounces and was 21 inches long. Hayden is welcomed home by his sister, Harper...

The mass killings. The mentally deranged. Suicidal monsters seeking notoriety by taking innocents with them. A glutenous media feeding the beast by clamoring to publicize such pathetic creatures. Automatic weapons making it easier and more tempting. Unstable, inflammatory charlot in the Big House fueling the fire. Empty church pews...

To the Voters of the Cherokee School District, When in Sioux City on business last week, the conversation included the fact that I live in Cherokee, I was asked, “what is going on in the schools there?” It is startling to know our reputation is traveling far and wide, and not in a good way...

A year ago River Valley’s Garrett Trapp was sidelined for the season when he suffered a concussion in the second game of the 2018 football campaign. Well, Trapp is back and after miss most of last season, he’s making up for lost time. Last Friday night, Garrett, a 5-11, 150-pound quarterback, turned in an impressive individual performance to earn Chronicle-Times Prep of the Week honors...

SPENCER - “Top to bottom, our kids rand fantastic and we could not be happier withe opening meet,” commented Cherokee Head Cross Country Coach Matt Hoskinson following his team’s effort here last week. “We had some young kids really step up in their first meet and our veterans ran strong,” added Hoskinson...

The Cherokee Braves traveled to Storm Lake last Friday for a chance to get back the Battle Axe from the Tornadoes in a season opener. The Battle Axe remains comfortable in Storm Lake for the third year in a row as Storm Lake took down the Braves 41-6. (The last time the Braves beat Storm Lake and won the Battle Axe was in the fall of 2015 when Cherokee won 27-22)...

Long time, no write! I’ve been incredibly busy this summer and Tyler has been so kind to fill my place in writing articles for the library. Thanks Tyler! A few weeks ago, we converted to a new circulation system. Our old system was called Follett Destiny and, boy howdy, was I not a fan. ...

For as long as most of us can remember, Ruble’s Service stood the test of time on the corner of Main and Roosevelt Streets here. The glossy white, single story building with big blue letters shouting out “STANDARD” stood proudly on the corner lot and withstood the floods of six decades. It was still there when the gas shortages of the 1970’s decimated the industry and remained viable even though it no longer served as a gas station...