Rhianna Erickson is used to helping people make big transformations with their hairstyles. This year, Erickson had the chance to make a different kind of transformation, and a big one at that. …
Austin Walsh and some of his friends and co-workers knew his dad was joking about turning a former Fonda funeral home into a haunted house. Until they decided it wasn’t a joke. Earlier …
Kari DeMoss has a long history of connections with the Newell Public Library. “Libraries are such an asset to their communities, and perhaps even more so in small rural communities like …
Pocahontas officials issued a boil water order after a water main break on the northwest side of town. On Oct. 6, at about 2:00 a.m., an alarm went off alerting city employees that water level …
Joni Click doesn’t really like opossums much. But Click, a retired teacher and children’s librarian, took the time to learn more about the messy looking mammal before writing her latest …
A judge has agreed to dismiss theft charges against an Estherville man who had been charged with stealing from Pro Cooperative. River Rasmussen, 20, was charged April 22 with third-degree theft, …
Mike Finarty had a question for PAC Elementary School sixth-grade students Friday morning. “How did you use corn today,” he asked the group. No one had a quick answer. That’s OK, said …
A Gilmore City man will go on trial in November for charges that came out of a June chase in Humboldt and Pocahontas counties. Clayton Nielsen, 41, was charged in June following the chase, which …
Want to find the best attended library programs in Iowa? Come to Pocahontas County. How about the number of hours open and number of full-time equivalent library staff members per 1,000 …
The Pocahontas County Board of Supervisors will not put together a compensation board this year. Board members voted 4-1 to ditch the compensation board. Supervisor Kyle Smith cast the sole …
If our foremothers had a task, they probably had an apron to go with it. Sheila Craig demonstrated just some of the different types of aprons and ways women used them through history at a …
Laurens Municipal Power and Communications’ board didn’t take any action on whether to lease land to a company that wants to build a server farm to mine bitcoin outside of Laurens last week. …
Buena Vista County Supervisor Paul Merten is facing a challenger in the November general election. Tom Grau, the Newell native and former Pocahontas County Economic Development Director, is …
Iowans have heard plenty of ads for statewide candidates in some hotly contested races. Don’t forget those down ballots races, though. In Pocahontas County, there are just five countywide …
Pocahontas County is not likely to seat a Compensation Board this year. For years, Iowa has asked counties to select regular citizens to meet once, usually in December, to talk with elected …
