Families visiting Gillette Park will soon find a new reason to slow down along the trail, where a picture book unfolds one page at a time. After four years of planning, setbacks and searching for the …
The Washta Fire Department hosted a large crowd at their breakfast fundraiser held Sunday. Derek DeWitt and Kelsi Dalton, two members of the fire department were in charge of making omelets to order …
Cherokee's downtown lighting project received a major lift this week as Cherokee State Bank committed $25,000 and North Star Community Credit Union contributed $20,000, marking two of the largest …
Vickie Hill concluded Cherokee’s downtown had a problem after her dog ingested methamphetamine last month. Hill, a hairstylist …
Public input sought for trail amenities The Little Sioux River is moving toward one of the largest state water trail designations in Iowa history. After decades of local advocacy, …
The Cherokee School Board filled Jocelyn Riggert’s vacant seat with Angie Anderson, whom Riggert narrowly defeated three years ago after a public fight over teachers carrying firearms on school …
Summit Carbon Solutions is abandoning two-thirds of its planned project to store carbon dioxide underground in North Dakota. The company, which had been granted permits to store CO2 in …
For Bailey Matthews, a local teacher and mother of four, painting began as a quiet summer project. It was a way to stay busy, stay grounded and earn a little extra for her family. But the more …
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is excited to host the Precision Agriculture and Animal Science Field Day on September 9 at the Northwest Iowa Research Farm located at 6320 500th Street …
Kaylee Simons, a senior at MMCRU and member of Cherokee County 4-H, recently showed the Reserve Champion Simmental division steer at the Iowa State Fair. The calf was also Cherokee County Fair …
Drivers on Iowa 3 and Iowa 143 should expect to follow a detour to reach Marcus from Monday, Aug. 24, until the end of October, weather permitting, according to the Iowa Department of …
The Cherokee County mass casualty incident drill was hosted by the Meriden Fire Department and coordinated by Cherokee County Emergency Management last Thursday evening. Participating agencies …
Sanford Museum will host “Barnology 101,” on Sunday, Aug. 30, at 2 p.m. Deann Haden, Iowa Barn Foundation Board of Directors and IBF Representative for Calhoun and Webster counties, will …
Cherokee’s new superintendent of schools, Jeff Siebersma, displays a poster promoting the Aug. 29 Swezey Hamburger Shop scholarship fundraiser by the Cherokee Washington High School Class of ‘65. …
Most mornings, Officer Clayton Reis used to start his shift behind the wheel of a patrol car. Now he begins his day in school hallways, greeting students who will soon know him as more than a badge. …
The Cherokee County Board of Supervisors overturned a moratorium on solar batteries and replaced it with an ordinance that makes possible a 30-megawatt solar array and a 500-head cattle herd …
Zach Lahn, the GOP nominee for Iowa governor in 2026, said Monday many of the major concerns about new technologies like data center power use and Flock cameras are issues that need to be regulated …
Draining lagoons a long-term goal, council hears The Cherokee City Council inked a contract with Bedrock Gravel Inc. of Denison to dredge the city’s sewage treatment lagoons of sediment that …
Nonprofit, government, and education professionals who want to learn about grant writing or improve their grant proposals can attend one or both of the grant writing programs offered in Cherokee, …
