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CRESCO - Approximately 250 fifth grade students visited the Norman Borlaug boyhood farm, near Protivin, south of Cresco, Friday during Inspire Education Day.
Inspire Education Day, held in the fall and again in the spring, features workshops in the fields of science and social studies for area...
Northeast Iowa - Two million dogs are stolen each year. That’s 5,400 per day. Dog thefts aren’t isolated to the city or someone else’s neighborhood. A series of dog thefts have left northeast Iowa, southern Minnesota and southeast, Wisconsin pet owners wondering what, if anything, can be done to...
Winneshiek County - According to a press release from the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office, an overloaded semi crossed Daley’s Bridge, northeast of Cresco, on Friday, May 5.
The Iowa State Patrol received a call at 9:14 a.m., with officer Solberg responding.
The driver of a 2016 Mack tractor/...
Winneshiek County - On Thursday, May 4, around 9:15 a.m., the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s office was involved in a high-speed chase, which started in West Union and ended in a field east of Protivin.
According to the report, a West Union Police Department Officer attempted to initiate a felony...
CRESCO - There’s always that one person.
Something needs to be done and that person is right there to spearhead a project or help in any way possible.
That person is there through thick and thin being a cheerleader for anything and everything.
For Cresco, that person has been Ken Becker, and he...
CRESCO - Marlys Hoines celebrates her 100th birthday Sunday, May 7. The public is invited to help her mark this milestone occasion by honoring her with a card shower. Send birthday greetings to her at Evans Memorial Home, 1010 North Elm Street, #99, Cresco, Iowa 52136.
Marlys has lived through...
CRESCO - According to Patty Scholtes, Senior Specialist for Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging, the Cresco mealsite is facing some changes.
Meals will still be served at Kessel Lodge Monday-Friday at 11:30 a.m., and Meals-on-Wheels will still be delivered.
What is changing is that a volunteer...
CRESCO - The Howard-Winneshiek Genealogical Society will be hosting Dr. Johnathan Storlie, PhD, Microbiologist, specializing in DNA, from Spring Grove, Minn., in an informational meeting May 11 in the Cresco Bank & Trust meeting room at 7 p.m.
People need to understand how to use the tools...
Decorah - The Northeast Iowa Family STEM Festival was held April 13, at the Center for the Arts, Luther College, Decorah. The festival, free and open to the public, was attended by hundreds of adults and children.
The festival’s goals are to promote, inspire and engage youth in Science,...
CRESCO - A large group of family and friends gathered north of the train in Beadle Park on Friday, April 28, to honor a long-time volunteer with a tree.
Cresco Mayor Mark Bohle read the proclamation:
Whereas, In 1872, J. Sterling Morton proposed to the Nebraska Board of Agriculture that a special...
