Donation honors Paul and Vernice Cutler Don Orris, who has led the effort to raise funds for a new animal shelter over the last six years, has honored a request by the first major donor to the project. The animal shelter is finally near completion, and Orris has convinced the anonymous donor to allow his name and the reasons for…
Read MoreDay: September 7, 2022
Scranton council swears in Squibb to fill vacancy
Ashley Squibb was sworn in as a member of the Scranton city council at the Aug. 16 meeting. Squibb fills a vacancy and will serve until the November 2023 election. The council set the fall clean up for Sept. 24 from 6 to 8 am. The budget amendment was approved. Dawn Rudolph reported on the Community Center. She advised the…
Read MoreSid Jones honored by Community Bankers
Home State Bank in Jefferson is celebrating achievements recently awarded to some staff members. In July, Home State Bank’s CEO and chairman of the board, Sid Jones, received the prestigious 2022 Robert D. Dixon Founders’ Award at the Community Bankers of Iowa annual management conference and annual convention in Okoboji. This award was established in 2003 by Community Bankers of…
Read MoreCorn, bean condition rated at 66 percent good to excellent
Continuing mostly dry conditions across most of the State resulted in 6.1 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending Sept. 4, 2022, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Fieldwork included harvesting corn for silage, cutting hay, seeding cover crops, and preparing equipment for harvest. Topsoil moisture condition across Iowa rated 16 percent very short, 30 percent short, 53 percent…
Read MoreSnowbird tells of difficulty in voting with new laws
Plan to Vote in Iowa? Yes, we do too. However, it was recently brought home to me that we cannot receive an absentee ballot before October 19th. Our usual routine was to go to the courthouse sometime in early October and make out our absentee ballot and be on our merry way to South Texas. But this year is different.…
Read MoreLiving in a lying culture affects us all
~a column by Colleen O’Brien Who do I trust? Not Microsoft. I was hacked this past winter and nearly paid out a thousand dollars to update my Microsoft. It was not Microsoft emailing me and talking to me, even though the logo I was looking at was exactly like Microsoft’s, and the guy talking to me sounded authentic [What does…
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