Stories from Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Richard "Dick" Point was awarded Cherokee's Citizen of the Year at this years CAEDC Cherokee County Recognition Banquet at the Little Sioux Events Center. In bestowing the annual award, Cherokee Mayor Craig Schmidt said, “I am especially honored to award this year's recipient of the Citizen of the Year. I consider the recipient a dear friend and know first hand of his qualifications...

MARCUS - Year 2021 will be the 150th celebration of the city of Marcus. One of the projects for the historic Sesquicentennial will be an update to the History Book that was published in 1996 for the 125th anniversary. This book will present the town’s growth in the past 25 years and will include businesses, families, organizations, school, churches, etc...

Robert E. "Bob" Cresap, 60, of Holstein, Iowa, passed away Sunday evening, February 9, 2020 at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held on Friday, February 14th, at 11 a.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Father Daniel Rupp will officiate. ...

Correctionville, Iowa – Junille Knaack, 79, of Correctionville, Iowa passed away Thursday, February 6, 2020 at Unity Point Health-St. Luke’s in Sioux City, Iowa. Funeral services will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, February 10, 2020 at Grace United Methodist Church in Correctionville, Iowa. ...

That Anderson fellow sure knows how to throw a party. As in CAEDC’s 25th annual Cherokee County Recognition Banquet last week at the Little Sioux Events Center in Cherokee. Wow! From Cherokee Troubadour Charlie Leissler’s opening serenades to 150-year old barristers still Cookin’, to Dick Point’s Cherokee Citizen of the Year Award, the night was one to remember in this heavenly slice of rural Iowa...

Cherokee’s 6-7 senior Ryan Hurd joined an elite club here Thursday night. Hurd surpassed the 1,000-point career mark in a win over LeMars last Thursday and became only the seventh player in Cherokee school history to score 1,000 or more points in a prep career here...

Last weekend in sectional wrestling tournament competition, Cherokee and Ridge View advanced three, and Alta-Aurelia will send two grapplers into district tournemament matches this Saturday. Cherokee wrestlers Simon Mummert (106 lbs.), Carson Fuhrman (160 lbs.) and Brenden Fisch (170 lbs.) will represent the Braves in Class 2A District action at Sheldon beginning at noon Saturday...