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Winneshiek County - Law enforcement officials in Winneshiek County are looking for the party responsible for killing a bald eagle.
The dead eagle was recovered March 3 from a road ditch four miles north of the Turkey Valley Community School in southwest Winneshiek County.
Anyone with information is...
Protivin - This past weekend the area saw a little bit of everything — rain, sleet, snow, thundershowers and wind, but that didn’t stop hundreds from making their way to Protivin to attend the 11th Annual Masopust on Saturday, Feb. 25.
The Czech Mardi Gras, which was led by first-time chair...
CRESCO - Mary Haas, DO, joins the medical staff at Regional Health Services of Howard County this month.
Originally from the Des Moines area, Dr. Haas is a graduate of Luther College in Decorah, and received her medical education from the Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine. She...
CRESCO - A local church and community volunteers have a long-standing connection to Pine Ridge Reservation, the Native American reservation located in South Dakota. The reservation is featured in ‘Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder’, presented by Roaring Fire Films. The...
Howard County - There was nobody from the public at the hearing for the Fiscal 2018 budget to learn that the supervisors decreased the overall county levy by 39.598¢ per thousand of valuations.
Even with the decrease though, there is still an increase of $118,526 in taxes collected due to an...
Howard County - Just as the terms hoosegow or calaboose have evolved into jail or prison over the past century-and-a-half, so has the structure of the building itself. And that includes the current Howard County Jail.
Since it was built in 1882, many changes have taken place to update the...
ELMA - Peoples Savings Bank: Elma Area Scholarship Fund is currently accepting applications for area high school students seeking to further their education. The deadline to apply is March 8. The online application can be found at www.cfneia.org/scholarships.
This is a one-year scholarship made...
So far the day has been a success. The first 100 people through the door received their free bag and took off shopping!
There are many vendors that have cash and carry items, others need to be ordered, but they are all doing a fine business.
Vendors are at the Howard County Expo Center until 4 p.m...
CRESCO - Freedom Rock is a great tradition for each county in the state of Iowa. Some of the first rocks, which honor the nation’s veterans, were painted in a field, on a hill, with no hype involved.
Howard County’s Freedom Rock in Cresco is going to be the centerpiece of a landscape designed to...
Howard County - Why has a committee been exploring options to update or build a new jail, dispatch center and sheriff offices?
• The biggest reason is the age of the jail. For 135 years the Howard County Jail has been used to keep its law-abiding citizens safe. It has served its purpose. But the...
