Stories from Wednesday, June 17, 2020

This 1964 “protest” song was written by Bob Dylan as a deliberate attempt to create an anthem of change for the times, as the Vietnam war, political corruption and greed, the Hippies’ “peace and love” culture, civil rights, and civil disobedience (Thoreau got it right) simultaneously had their scabs torn off...

On Monday, June 15, Cherokee Regional Medical Center (CRMC) reopened the Wellness Center and the hospital Main Entrance to patients. Both had been closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic since mid-March of this year. Both reopenings are in line with the Iowa Governor’s announcement to reopen various businesses, including health clubs and fitness centers, along with CRMC ramping back up to resume offering more elective and specialized health care services...

After a year and a half of kicking the matter from meeting to meeting and surveying employees and stakeholders at the behest of Superintendent Kim Lingenfelter, the Cherokee School Board Monday night unanimously approved naming the new PK-4 facility “Cherokee Elementary School.”...

After mountains of misery from a deadly pandemic clouded by roiling social unrest, the sun has broken through and spirits high in Cherokee knowing that the 86th annual Sioux Valley Amateur Match-Play Golf Tournament will be played this weekend at the fabled Cherokee Golf Course...

LEMARS- A veteran stacked LeMars Gehlen baseball club took advantage of seven Cherokee errors and 14 walks on the way to a 20-2 season opening, one-sided win over Cherokee’s youthful Braves here Monday night. In a game that went just four innings, Gehlen turned a 6-1 first inning lead into 20-1 with a 14-run explosion in the second inning. Officially, game over...