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Chester Fall Festival

CHESTER - Don’t miss out on one of the first fall festivals of the season in Chester this weekend. The vendor show is from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Community Center. Lunch is from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Start your Christmas shopping early. Home business vendors will be selling homemade candles and other...

Cresco FD called to jail

The Cresco Fire Department was called to the Howard County Jail for the smell of smoke on Tuesday, Oct. 4 around 10:15 a.m. It was found that an air exchange had overheated.

H-W Capital Campaign

CRESCO - The “Cadet Capital Campaign” officially kicked off before the homecoming game on Friday, Sept. 23. The campaign is to help support Howard-Winneshiek’s current building project to connect the existing elementary/junior high and high school building. The project includes a new...

Kellow House Museum suffers damage

CRESCO - The Kellow House Museum holds an ice cream social every year during the celebration of the Norman Borlaug Harvest Fest, but this year things got a little more exciting than usual. With a turnout of around 50 people — one of their best — the social was just winding down when a corner...

Recycling main topic at Cresco Council

CRESCO - A large number of business owners and residential customers attended the Sept. 19 City Council meeting to get some answers on the closing of the Hawkeye Recycling Center after the last council meeting on Sept. 7. Julian, Lucas and Ross Merritt have represented Hawkeye Sanitation &...

State Auditor Sand discusses assertiveness, non-partisanship at Town Hall, Sept. 14

CRESCO - State Auditor Rob Sand discussed the importance of assertiveness and non-partisanship at a Town Hall meeting in Cresco’s Beadle Park Wednesday, Sept. 14. Sand, a native of Decorah, addressed a group of six attendees, describing how he feels these Town Halls are an important way to gauge...

NBHF endowment fund recently established

RURAL CRESCO - The Norman Borlaug Heritage Foundation (NBHF) has established an endowment fund with the Howard County Community Foundation in honor of Dr. Borlaug and to support the activities of the NBHF. Dr. Norman Borlaug is remembered by the NBHF as one of the greatest humanitarians in history...

Oktoberfest at Cresco Country Club

The Cresco Country Club will host an Oktoberfest celebration on Saturday, Oct. 1. The clubhouse will open at 12 noon with free admission and offer live music by Joe Majors, fun bouncy houses and crafts for the kids, games for the adults such as Hammerschlagen, a Keg Throw and more. They will also...

Meet new H-W supt.

CRESCO - Mr. Kris Einck took the helm at Howard-Winneshiek CSD on July 1. He moved one county to the west from his previous position as superintendent and secondary principal at South Winneshiek CSD. He is currently in a sharing situation with H-W getting four-fifths of his time, while South Winn...

Meet 7-12 principal

CRESCO - Lisa Dursky is the new secondary (7-12) principal at Crestwood. She comes to Howard-Winneshiek CSD from Andrew, Iowa, serving as middle school and high school ELL Instructor at Dubuque Community School District, Assistant Professor of Education at Clarke University and Online Instructor...