Stories from Friday, December 13, 2019

The Cherokee City Council meeting Tuesday night was highlighted by The Oath of Office administered to newly re-elected Council members Chad Brown, Amy Loughlin and Wayne Pingel. The three incumbents ran unopposed for four-year terms in the November elections.
In further action, Bill Anderson and Brian Freed from Cherokee Area Economic Development Corporation presented their 2019 Annual Report to the Council. ...

At Tuesday’s Cherokee County Board of Supervisors meeting, CAEDC Director Bill Anderson and CAEDC Board member Brian Freed presented an overview of successful economic development projects over the last year. Anderson thanked the Supervisors for their continued support, stating that he wants to build on his relationship with County Supervisors and staff to keep Cherokee County moving in a positive direction...

Thomas L. Van Hoff, 79, of Cherokee, Iowa passed away suddenly, Monday afternoon, December 9, 2019. Memorial services will be held on Monday, December 16th, at 10:30 a.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Pastor Jonathan Riggert will officiate. ...

We are filled with holiday wonder following the 2nd Annual Tinsel and Tidings activities in Cherokee. Tinsel and Tidings, the unique and timely gift to Cherokee brought to you by event planners and volunteers Pamela and Andy Linn, began last year, with the Linns wanting to help promote Cherokee and its small businesses...

Since my last article, the Cherokee Public Library co-hosted an event at Cherokee Middle School on the topic of careers in STEM and the library was actually highlighted as one of the careers in STEM. I know that it may sound a little weird saying that a librarian is a STEM career, but library services are extremely digital with how information management systems (IMS) control workflows for most of the library’s major tasks such as populating our catalog to keeping track of the thousands of patrons who have library cards and materials out at any given time. ...

Three years ago I named then San Francisco 49er QB Colin Kaepernick the first recipient of my Rise Man Award following his refusal to rise for the National Anthem. Kaepernick willingly immersed himself into national controversy by refusing to stand for the playing of the National Anthem in protest of what he publicly deemed social and police oppression of African Americans and other minorities in the United States...