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LIME SPRINGS - The various department heads in Lime Springs gave reports at the Aug. 3 meeting. • Fire Chief Nathan Schwickerath said fire department members have been busy preparing for Sweet Corn Days. “We are having an ATV ride, waterball fight, breakfast on Sunday and washing streets.” He noted...
LIME SPRINGS - City Clerk Jane Tibbals told Lime Springs City Council members a laptop program was available to cities and counties in Iowa. There is $9,500 available for specific models of laptops. In case employees need to work from home, due to COVID, the computers can be taken home. Tibbals...
CRESCO - It has taken nearly two years to complete the huge addition to Cresco Community Chapel at 24024 Hwy. 9 East. The congregation wants to celebrate its completion by having an open house, supper (barbecue sandwiches and more) and a concert on Sunday, Aug. 29, starting at 4:30 p.m. The concert...
HOWARD COUNTY - The Sheriff’s Department donated its older Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to the Cresco Police Department and each fire department in Howard County. Sheriff Tim Beckman explained, “I applied for a grant earlier this year through the state for new AEDs. We received them in...
CRESCO - There will be some new faces teaching and working with students at Howard-Winneshiek and Notre Dame Schools when classes start on Monday, Aug. 23. Some will be familiar, but are featured because they are changing schools or positions. The new staff were treated to lunch and received three...
CRESCO - Becky Dunn is chairman of the Regional Health Services of Howard County (RHSHC) Hospital Auxiliary Quilt Committee. The group is working hard getting all the quilts organized for the upcoming 43rd Annual Auction, taking place at the Harvest Fest Tent on Saturday, Aug. 28 during Norman...
CHESTER - Mike Meyer has been making a spectacle of his sign-painting work for the past nine months. He is using his God-given talents to continue his life’s work of painting signs inside and outside the former St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Chester. Many of his projects are in plain sight on the...
CRESCO - Over 200 families were helped during this year’s 10th Annual Back to School and Family Clothing Give-Away at Immanuel Lutheran Church on Aug. 5-7. The entire basement and classroom areas were filled with clothes, boots, shoes, winter coats, brand new socks and underwear and more thanks to...
CRESCO - Public Works Director Nate Widell updated City Council members on the storm that went through the area on July 31 and damages that took place. The wind bent the poles on which the stop lights sit. “Perry Novak came to look at it and an anchor bolt was knocked out. It will need to be taken...
DES MOINES - Gov. Kim Reynolds issued a disaster proclamation on Aug. 9 for Howard County in response to severe weather beginning July 27.  The governor’s proclamation allows state resources to be utilized to respond to and recover from the effects of this severe weather. The proclamation activates...

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