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Saturday, July 14, 2018 - 4:11pm
Eugene George Sukup went to be with his Heavenly Father on July 12, 2018.A visitation will be held on Monday, July 16, from 3 to 8 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hampton, Iowa. A funeral service will be held on Tuesday, July 17, at 10:30 a.m.,...
Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 4:38pm
With great sadness, we share that Eugene Sukup, beloved husband, father and grandfather, and the founder of Sukup Manufacturing Co., passed away earlier today.
Eugene will be remembered by his family and many friends, colleagues, and members of the...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 4:18pm
From the Thornton Public Library
We had a great time this Summer Reading Program and wish it could last a little longer! We served 112 children from Jun 7 – Jun 28, 2018. We averaged 7 children Pre-K -3rd Grade each day and 7 4th...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 4:17pm
The American Cancer Society states that over one million people are diagnosed with cancer per year. For some people, including Hampton residents Karen Ringleb and Norm Helm, that statistic shifts from just numbers into reality when they receive...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 4:13pm
Once a year, the quiet town of Rockwell fills with the sounds of roaring engines and cheering spectators as people from coast to coast gather for North Iowa Nationals, a truck and tractor pull that’s now a decade in the running.
“We...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - 10:57am
SHEFFIELD – West Fork will start the 2018-19 school year with a new athletic director and head football coach, both of whom have close local ties and looking forward to getting started.
Alex Brayton, a 2009 West Fork graduate, is the new...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - 10:55am
SHEFFIELD – Both ends of West Fork’s rain make-up date baseball doubleheader between Garner-Hayfield-Ventura and North Butler didn’t go the Warhawks’ way.
Coach Lance Thompson’s team had a scoreless battle going with...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 - 1:10pm
On an acreage just outside of Sheffield, a couple has embarked on an agricultural journey, and community members may have noted their progress at the Sheffield farmers’ market.
Ryan Lage, a graduate of Northeast Iowa Community College, has...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 - 1:09pm
Milton Berle once said that if opportunity doesn’t knock, one simply needs to build a door, and that’s exactly what one Rockwell man did, literally.
“It started as just a side job,” said Peter St. Germain, owner of Rough Cut...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 - 1:07pm
The community of Meservey and its neighbors came together to celebrate Independence Day last weekend.
Despite the heat wave that swept the area, dozens flocked to Meservey’s Schoolhouse Park Saturday for the second annual library carnival,...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 - 12:00am
Note: Due to the Fourth of July deadline, this story won't appear in its entirety until the Thursday, July 12 edition of the Sheffield Press and Pioneer Enterprise.
SHEFFIELD — With “rally caps” on, the West Fork...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 - 4:04pm
With the sound of snapping timber and crumpling sheet metal came the end of an era for the Franklin County Fairgrounds.
“I showed livestock here in the 50s,” said Franklin County Fair Board’s Carol Lowery, as she watched over the...
