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Attractions for all ages at Trail Grand Opening

Riceville - Riceville student Brian Lewis will be impersonating Abraham Lincoln on Saturday, May 5, as one of the storytellers along the Wapsi-Great Western Line Trail’s Grand Opening of the Southern Branch. There will be five Celebration Stations along the trail from Elma to Riceville. Each...

Lime Springs natives share Honor Flight experience

Washington, D.C. - Two veterans with deep roots in Lime Springs were on an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C., April 17. Gary Thomas and Keith Williams, Lime Springs High School class of 1955, were privileged to be among the 101 veterans on this flight, the 31st such flight organized by Eastern...

Mirror Image

Howard County - Has anyone ever come up to you and said, “You look just like your mother!” or “Your daughter is the spittin’ image of you!?” Well, now is the time to show everyone how much you look like each other. Why not enter the Times Plain Dealer’s Mirror Image, a mother-daughter look-...

Like mother like daughter

DNR Director Gipp retires

Des Moines - Iowa Department of Natural Resources Director Chuck Gipp gave his resignation letter to Gov. Kim Reynolds on April 2. His last day at the department will be Tuesday, May 1, 2018. “Chuck has an outstanding record of service to Iowa,” Reynolds said. “He’s spent the last six years...

More 2018 Crestwood High School Prom Photos

CRESCO - The 2018 Crestwood High School Prom, "A Starry Night," was held on Saturday, April 21.

Museum expansion started

CRESCO - “Our museum is full, and we have more stuff to fill it,” Barb Prochaska told a group of individuals at a kick-off event for fund-raising on April 17. The president of Howard County Historical Society added, “We already know we have more than enough stuff to fill an addition.” The...

Freedom Rock Countdown

CRESCO - Meet Jim Perry. He is the Freedom Rock Chair, Commander of American Legion Post 135. Perry is also a retired SeaBee in the U.S. Navy. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, a need arose for a militarized Naval Construction Force to build advance bases in war zones. Therefore, Rear...

HCCF awards over $100K to local non-profits

Lime Springs - The Howard County Community Foundation held its annual grant awards ceremony on March 27, announcing the distribution of $108,207 in grants to 55 area non-profits and government agencies. Grants awards ranged from $200 up to $3,000. With this year’s awards, the Howard County...

It’s ‘A Starry Night’ at Crestwood’s Prom

CRESCO - The Crestwood High School gymnasium was transformed into ‘A Starry Night'’ for Prom 2018, adorned with twinkling lights, large blue and yellow stars suspended from the ceiling and props evocative of painter Vincent van Gogh’s famous 1889 painting. Students and their family and friends...