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CRESCO - Regional Health Services of Howard County (RHSHC) announces a new partnership with Avera Health, based in Sioux Falls, S.D.
RHSHC Board of Trustees voted to sign an agreement with Avera Health at their Jan. 28, 2020 meeting. The new partnership begins July 1, 2020.
RHS will continue to be...
CRESCO - City Council members met in special session on Jan. 15 to discuss the budget with department heads. It lasted for over four-and-a-half hours. At the end of the process, the tentative budget had a $583,000 loss. After the budget session, numbers were refigured and the loss was reduced to $...
From Dec. 25, 2019
Howard County - If the three rules of real estate are location, location, location, then one might have thought Davis Corners would be the ideal possibility for a prominent town in Howard County. Almost perfectly in the middle of the county, the community has been the...
Cresco - Howard County Supervisors learned officially of Hy-Vee’s Dollar Fresh store to open in Cresco’s old Shopko building on Highway 9 west. The tentative opening date is mid-summer.
Along with Cresco, it was announced over the past few days Dollar Fresh stores are going into Oelwein, Waukon,...
CRESCO - Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is on a 17-day Iowa bus tour ahead of the Feb. 3 caucus. He was in Northeast Iowa on Wednesday, Jan. 22, visiting at the Cresco Theatre & Opera House at 2 p.m. In addition that day, he was at Charles City, Osage, Decorah and Waukon.
Yang —...
CRESCO - On Wednesday, Jan. 22, around 25 area folks were given the opportunity to hear from presidential candidate Joe Biden’s wife, Dr. Jill Biden, during a town hall meeting at Cuautla Jalisco Family Mexican Restaurant in Cresco.
She was a few minutes late due to road conditions coming from...
Andrew Yang’s 17-day bus tour will continue through Northern Iowa Jan. 21-22 as he meets with voters and shares his plans to rewrite the rules of the 21st century to put Humanity First.
He will be at a town hall meeting in Howard County on Wednesday, Jan. 22 at Cresco Theatre & Opera House at...
LOURDES - Howard-Winneshiek Community School District Superintendent Ted Ihns confirmed a bus rolled on its side on Tuesday morning, Jan. 14. He said there were 13 students on board, plus the bus driver.
The incident took place around 9 a.m., after a two-hour late start on the gravel road, Crane...
CRESCO - Tiffany Marie Ranweiler-Oblander, age 31, a former teacher at Howard-Winneshiek Community School District pled guilty to Sexual Exploitation by School Employee, an aggravated misdemeanor on Jan. 13, 2002.
In the plea, Ranweiler-Oblander admitted to engaging in “sexual conduct with a...
The Oneota FIlm Festival (OFF) will host a preview screening Saturday, Jan. 25, at 2 p.m. at the Cresco Theatre and Opera House in Cresco.
This is a free event which is appropriate for all ages.
Saturday’s showing includes three short, documentary films: Catnap, The Foursome and Birth of the Cy-...
