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HOWARD COUNTY/ SURROUNDING AREA - With the excitement of the bank robbery in Lime Springs on Tuesday, Sept. 3, locals have been talking about area bank robberies.
Looking in the archives of the Howard County newspapers, available on the Cresco Public Library’s website, here is a rundown of the few...
DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, Iowa Farm Bureau Federation President Craig Hill and Vice-President Joe Heinrich honored 485 Iowa farm families with Century or Heritage Farm designations at the Iowa State Fair. The program celebrates farms that have been owned by the same...
Cresco - The Cresco Wildlife Club has been in existence for nearly 100 years and the mission has been to promote and support youth hunting activities. For many years, it has been a vision of the CWC to build a new trap range to replace the single trap house located at the Howard County Fairgrounds...
CRESCO - Area contractors were given the opportunity to present a plan on how to put new housing on the old trailer park property that is now city-owned at a special work session on Aug. 19.
Cresco is addressing one of the biggest economic development problems — housing.
Just two proposals were...
HOWARD COUNTY - Area residents may have heard there will be some changes in the 2019 school and city elections. They are being combined for the first time and will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
In the past, school board elections were in September while city council elections were held, for the most...
CRESCO - When something works, you don’t change it. That’s why Notre Dame Parish is celebrating its 49th Annual Fair Day on Sunday, Sept. 8 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
The custom-made sausage and turkey dinner will be from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the church basement. Advance tickets cost $9 for adults and $5 for...
HOWARD-WINNESH-IEK - An updated facilities plan was revealed by Howard-Winneshiek Superintendent Ted Ihns last week. The DLR Group made a few changes and clarifications to what was printed in the Times Plain Dealer in the Aug. 28, 2019 issue.
In addition, the Times had stated the preschool area...
CRESCO - After being without a permanent home for a little over four months, parishioners of Cresco Community Chapel are happy to be moved into their new quarters, an addition to their main structure.
Sunday, Aug. 25 was the first Sunday worship since mid-April when the old addition was...
LIME SPRINGS - It took just two-and-a-half hours for authorities to arrest an individual suspected of robbing the Lime Springs branch of CUSB Bank at gunpoint on Sept. 3.
Luis Angel Vega, age 27, of Austin, Minn. is charged with 1st Degree Robbery, a Class B Felony.
At approximately 12:21 p.m. on...
Update, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019, 4:15 p.m.
LIME SPRINGS - An armed gunman has been taken into custody in Austin, Minn. around 3-3:30 p.m. after robbing the Lime Springs branch of CUSB Bank noted Howard County Sheriff Mike Miner. The suspect's name has not been released.
It took less than four hours...
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