Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
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The need for a new pool in the City With a Heart is obvious to Jackie Stoltz. "It's important that our town be progressive and offer multiple things," said the Hartley woman, who served on the pool taskforce committee and is also helping raise funds for a new aquatic center. "We can't just sit back and do nothing. We have to move ahead and be progressive." Local voters will decide the fate of a $1.7 million bond issue on March 2 that, if passed, will finance more than half the cost to construct...
In response to Gov. Kim Reynolds' lifting of the statewide face covering mandate, the Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn Community School District has rescinded its requirement that they be worn whenever social distancing is not possible. The board on Feb. 17 voted 3-2 to follow the district's original return to learn plan, which includes mitigation strategies to limit the spread of the coronavirus within school facilities. The strategies include staying six feet from others as much as possible, frequent...
Kim Morran has to remind herself to breathe every now and then. The director of O'Brien County Public Health has been swamped over the past month during the initial rollout phases of the COVID-19 vaccine. There are plenty of arms to go around, but the vaccine supply has been limited. "It has been extremely busy and stressful," Morran said. "I only have one nurse and myself, and a secretary. We have utilized volunteers to assist in the office and for the larger clinics." O'Brien County is...
COVID-19 positivity rates continued a downward trend both locally and statewide over the past week. As of Wednesday morning, O'Brien County's seven-day positivity rate was 3 percent while Clay County's was 2 percent. Local 14-day positivity rates weren't available on the state's COVID-19 data website. Last week, O'Brien County's 14-day positivity rate was 5.9 percent while Clay County's was 6.9 percent. Statewide, the 14-day positivity rate was down from 7.5 percent to 4.1 percent....
The final sale of general obligation bonds to finance facilities construction and improvements is scheduled to be completed during the March 15 meeting of the Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn school board. A resolution approving the process of selling $460,000 in bonds was approved on Feb. 17. The sale would complete the issuance of $18.9 million in bonds authorized by voters in 2018 to finance construction of new elementary and middle schools and renovations of the high school. The district is hoping int...
• Traffic Abigail R. Boone, Sheldon, Failure to Yield Right of Way to Pedestrians. Adam Larry Timmerman, Cherokee, Speeding. Jacob J. Schnider, Sheldon, Registration Violation. Alexander Todd Davis, Sheldon, Dark Windows. Evan Paul Schmidt, Marion, S.D., Registration Violation. Shelly L. Ohrt, Hartley, Seatbelt Violation. Matthew Lee Wallinga, Paullina, Registration Violation; No Proof of Insurance. Anthony Lane Fellers, Milford, Windshield Requirements Violation; Speeding. Tyler John DeBruin, Doon, No Valid Driver’s License. Drew Michael Mer...
Half a million and counting More Americans have now died of COVID-19 than those who perished in both World Wars and the Vietnam War combined. As of Tuesday morning, the tally sat at 500,104. Half a million dead Americans is hard to grasp. That’s a lot of empty of chairs at the dinner table and so many gaping holes in the hearts of loved ones they left behind. We must never forget, and as President Joe Biden noted Monday during a vigil for coronavirus victims, “we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow.” COVID-19 has dominated our way of li...
Though they share their main sentiments, it is my hope that this column will be better received than Jeep’s Bruce Springsteen Super Bowl commercial. Alice Schertle’s Little Blue Truck is a book that is on constant rotation in my kid’s library. In essence, the story follows an old, single cab, blue (please don’t read into the color) pickup truck as it goes about its morning, beeping hello to each animal it passes on the way. After greeting a handful of barnyard animals in the country, Blue is...
Pool bond meeting is tonight at HCC Hartley residents are invited to an informational public meeting about the proposed pool project tonight (Thursday, Feb. 25). The meeting will be held inside the Hartley Community Center and begins at 7 p.m. Patrons can also watch the meeting via Zoom. Any questions about the project will be answered by representatives from Water’s Edge, the design firm in charge of the project. Hartley Community Outreach open house Hartley Community Outreach will hold an open house on Monday, March 1 from 1-8 p.m. The new n...
NCC selects next president In a unanimous decision the Northwest Iowa Community College board of trustees approved the hiring of Dr. John Hartog, III, of Boyden, as the 10th president of NCC. The decision was announced during the board's regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Feb. 22. Dr. Hartog is currently the Vice President for Student & Academic Services at NCC, a position he has held since 2011. Prior to that, he had served as president of Faith Baptist College and Seminary in Ankeny. Over...
Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Royal hosted its annual third grade Bible dedication service last Sunday. The church's Milestone Ministry team, whose desire is to highlight church members Christian milestones, gave each third grader a Bible of their very own. Third graders who were celebrated in the dedication were Kate Holtz and Hallie Fletcher. Milestone Ministry spoke on the importance of having the word of God at their fingertips to learn and grow from, knowing that He is always there. Family...
Barbara Wills, 81, passed away suddenly on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, at Prairie Creek Assisted Living Memory Care in Sioux Falls, S.D. Barbara Berene Olhausen was born May 10, 1939 to William and Thais Olhausen in Hartley. She attended and graduated from Hartley High School in 1957, where she would meet the love of her life, classmate Larry Wills. They would marry in 1958 as Larry began his service in the United States Air Force. While serving his country, they lived in North Dakota and Texas befo...
Visitation and fellowship in memory of Ronald G. “Ron” Hennings will be held from 2-7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 26, at the Hartley Funeral Home Chapel in Hartley. Interment will be at Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley. Hartley Funeral Home is assisting with the arrangements. Ronald Gene “Ron” Hennings, son of Harry Francis and Ella Elizabeth (Bruegmann) Hennings, was born at Hartley on April 18, 1940. He spent his youth in the Hartley area and received his education there, graduating from Hartley High School in 1958. Always having an interes...
A funeral service for Dennis Leth was held Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, at the Hartley Funeral Home chapel in Hartley. Pastor Lynn Dau officiated. Pallbearers were Jason Leth, Zachary Hollowell, Colby Hollowell, Tony Murphy, Zak Schnack and Derek Rice. Honorary pallbearers were Jessica Murphy, Janelle Schnack, Cassandra Rice, Jaclyn Hollowell and all of his great-grandchildren. Interment was at Pleasant View Cemetery. Military graveside rites were conducted by Arthur W. Kirchhoff Post #288, American Legion of Hartley. Hartley Funeral Home...
Clair Arthur Moding, the son of Forrest and Lucille Moding, was born on April 6, 1933 at home near Peterson. He received his education in Sutherland, graduating in 1951. He entered the U.S. Army in September 1953 and served with the first Niki guided missile group at Long Island, N.Y. and was discharged in September of 1955. He farmed with his dad until 1959 when he married Marlene Johanson on July 18, 1959. He then entered into business with his brother Donald as a painter, sign painter and carpenter. They made their home for a short time in...
• Feb. 28, 1946 The Hartley girls’ basketball team won the right to represent northwest Iowa in the state tournament at Des Moines by coming out on top in the district tourney which was held in Hartley. Hartley smashed a determined Meriden sextet, 63-36, to advance to the district finals. The championship game was one of those contests where anything could happen, either good or bad. However, most everything good happened to Hartley as they romped away with Mallard by the convincing score of 66-36. Each team in the tournament received a trophy....
Any concerns that the third meeting between Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn and Trinity Christian might be a battle went away in the second quarter. Twenty straight points gave the Hawks a convincing half time lead and they continued to pull away for a 77-42 win on Feb. 15 in Hartley. Three-point shooting kept the Tigers in contention during the early minutes of the 1A district quarterfinal game and also helped them rally from a nine-point deficit to make the score 20-15. That would be as close as...
A higher place on the Class 2A medal stand literally escaped Okoboji/H-M-S wrestler Nick Bronstad at the individual state tournament last weekend. In the 285-pounder's final two consolation matches, second period escapes by Ethan Hooyer, of Sioux Center, and Keean Kamerling, of Mount Vernon, were the difference between winning and losing. As a result, Bronstad (11, 35-15) finished eighth overall in his first state tournament appearance at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Bronstad opened the...
The pressure to survive and advance is on every high school basketball team in postseason play. But Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn also faced the relenting pressure of Newell-Fonda's full-court defense during a boys' 1A district semifinal on Feb. 18 at Newell. The Mustangs took control in the first quarter and kept the pressure on throughout the game. The result was an 80-43 season-ending loss for the Hawks. "Their overall defensive intensity from the beginning of the game to the end was something we...
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