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Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 4:39pm
The Sheffield City Council will be accepting bids for its intended shelter house at City Park. Councilman JC McCaslin presented to the council an architectural rendering of what the council is looking for at the park at the council’s meeting...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 4:31pm
This past Oct. 16 marks the one-year anniversary of Sheffield Police Chief Sam Cain’s time on the beat. After 365 days of all-nighters, patrols and dispatch calls, Cain’s narrowed his role down to three categories.
“You’re...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 4:27pm
Environmental enthusiasts from across the area gathered in Ventura on Tuesday, October 10 for the 2017 REAP Assembly meeting.
REAP (Resource Enhancement and Protection) is a state conservation program dedicated to supporting and maintaining Iowa...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 4:24pm
The West Fork Community School Board was updated on teacher development and targeted learning techniques during their meeting on Monday, Oct. 16.
The board was updated about the Teacher Leadership Program. Wendy Fullerton, Stacy Ubben and Kim...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 4:20pm
Last September, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds authorized a transfer of $13 million from the state’s economic emergency fund to cover a $14.6 million discrepancy between the state’s revenues and expenditures (the state currently has an...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017 - 4:12pm
Friends, family, and more gathered in Rudd on Saturday, October 14 to take part in a benefit event for Katie Blackdeer of Rockwell.
Blackdeer is recovering after recently finishing her last treatment of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with a...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - 10:04am
MASON CITY – The NIACC cross country course certainly is more to Zach Martinek’s taste.
The West Fork junior was the top finisher for the Warhawks to earn Top of Iowa East Conference honors. He was 13th overall in team scoring, but fifth...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - 10:02am
SHEFFIELD – West Fork used its home triangular against Clarksville and Belmond-Klemme to tinker with its lineup and put players on the court that normally don’t get to court time.
The Warhawks especially did so against the Broncos in the...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 4:26pm
Over the summer, West Fork Middle School technology teacher Jennifer Otten had the opportunity to travel to Houston, Texas, to attend a summer training program hosted by Code.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding access to computer...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 4:23pm
In conjunction with the National Association of Manufacturing’s (NAM) annual “Manufacturing Day” event, students from 10 area schools spent Friday, October 6, visiting Sukup Manufacturing Co. in Sheffield and experiencing aspects...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 4:18pm
A Rockwell resident declared himself as a write-in option for Rockwell City Council last week, leading up to the November 7 regular city elections. Although the candidate filing period for this year’s elections concluded on September 21,...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 4:15pm
Thanks to a $40,000 Matching Assets to Community Health (MATCH) grant received from the Wellmark Foundation in September, work on the Prairie Land recreational trail in Cerro Gordo County will soon be one step closer to complete.
According to Cerro...
