Stories from Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The Cherokee Chamber Board of Directors is once again selling Holiday Raffle Tickets and 1,000 tickets will be sold for $5 each. A total of 12 Holiday Raffle ticket winners will be drawn beginning on Thursday, following the Downtown Christmas Parade. One - $100 prize will be given each week day from December 5 - December 20. The Grand prize of $1,000 will be drawn at Chamber Coffee on Friday, December 20. You need not be present to win...

At the November Cherokee School Board meeting in which three newly-elected Board members officially took office, CSD District employee appointments also were assigned with many of them annual carry-over duties remaining unchanged. The Teacher Quality Team consisting of administrators includes Scott Aden, Valerie Fuhrman, Wade Riley, and Kim Lingenfelter...

Gale D. Kruger, age 77 of Cherokee, IA, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, November 25, 2019 at her home in Cherokee, IA, Funeral services was held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, December 3, 2019, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cherokee. Pastor Jonathan Riggert was the officiate. ...

Funeral services for Marilyn Jean Glienke, 91, of Aurelia, will be Wednesday, December 4, 2019, at 10:30 A.M., at the St. John Lutheran Church in Hanover, with Pastor Zachary Viggers officiating. Burial will be at the Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 Tuesday at the St. John Lutheran Church in Hanover. The Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia is in charge of arrangements...

Velma Mae Garvin, age 89 of Marcus, IA, passed away Friday, November 29, 2019 at the Heartland Care Center in Marcus, IA. A Mass of Christian Burial took place at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at Holy Name Catholic Church in Marcus. Father Bill McCarthy and Father Gene Murray officiated. ...

Lloyd Wayne Gochenour, 95, of Humboldt passed away on Friday, November 29 at the Long Term Care Unit of Humboldt County Memorial Hospital. He was born September 17th, 1924 on a farm in rural Ottosen to Elvin and Rose (Davis) Gochenour. Lloyd graduated from Ottosen High School in 1941 at the age of 16. ...

Amy and Bill Crew are proud to announce the birth of their new son. William Joseph Crew was born at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center on November 27, 2019 at 6:02 a.m. He weighs 8 lbs., 9 ozc., and is 20 inches in length. He has two sisters: Catherine Crew and Elena Crew. His grandparents are Bill and Elizabeth Crew of Ayrshire, Iowa, Cathy Garghran of Cary, North Carolina, and Rob Garghran in California...

This week's Alumni Spotlight features Tricia Langholdt-Vannatta! Tricia graduated from Cherokee Washington High School in 2004 and received her Bachelor's in Psychology and Early Childhood Education from South Dakota State University (Go Jacks!). She is currently completing her Master's degree in Administration from Wayne State College (completing fall 2019). Tricia and her family live in Cherokee and she is a Preschool Teacher...

Despite Donald Trump calling Democrats and the Free Press “enemies of the people,” they owe him an apology. Attempting to impeach this messiah for playing dirty pool with Ukraine to undermine and take down a political rival is perhaps the least of his corrupt, conniving, clandestine carnage he daily inflicts on a country he would sell in a heartbeat to the highest bidder...

Wow, after what felt like six months of January, the summer came, school started, we had a quick Halloween, and now Christmas is here! That usually means that we are all super stressed on the weekends having to go out and track down that perfect gift (which has probably been a lot harder with all the snow we have recently had)...

ALTA - Both games of a coed doubleheader here Monday proved to be “typical” first games of the season. Like most season openers, both games were littered with typical early season mistakes, but there were also some bright spots sprinkled in. Ridge View’s Raptors swept the area twin bill, winning the girls’ game 70-30 and claiming a close 43-40 victory in the boys’ nightcap...