Stories from Friday, August 28, 2020

Friday, August 21st saw unusual visitors crowd at the Cherokee Public Library when a swarm of bees descended into one of the tall pine trees by the building's historic entrance. Wisely summoned after being buzzed by Library Director Tyler Hahn, Cherokee County Conservation Board Naturalist Laura Jones arrived to save the day, collecting the cluster of insects, who remained balled protectively around their Queen...

At Tuesday’s monthly City Council meeting, Administrator Eric List reported that the City has been working with Iowa Department of Homeland Security & Emergency Management for funding approval for the purchase and placement of two natural gas generators, one to be located at the water treatment plant and the other to service municipal wells #11 and #12...

The Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 734th Regional Support Group, and the 3654th Support Maintenance Company recently received deployment orders for Operation Spartan Shield in U.S. Central Command, a region which encompasses 27 countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, among others...

On Friday, May 8, graduates of Ellsworth Community College took their next step as they became alumni of the College. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MCC was unable to have a ceremony to honor the graduates. Graduates include those that completed their degree or diploma work during the winter 2019 term and spring and summer 2020 terms...

Steve and Louise Martin, Michael Wright, Darin Benson, Destiny Peterson, Jake Hayes, Becky Schipper and Family, Steve McQueen, Dallas Nace, Curtis Conley, Jose Cruz, Liam Siepka and many others. You probably don’t know these people, but we do and that’s plenty good enough for us...

1st Place: Ruth Johnson (3.30 lbs, 23 fish) 2nd Place: Case Olson (2.00 lbs., 2 fish) 3rd Place: Charlotte Johnson (1.06 lbs., 14 fish) 4th Place: Rowan Kruse (1.00 lb, 3 fish) and Thomas (1.00 lb, 4 fish) (Tie) 40 children signed up to participate in a fishing tournament at Spring Lake Park on Saturday August 22nd. ...