Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
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Like a mirage of a puddle in the desert, local children will have to continue staring at an empty pool in Hartley this summer. The new aquatic center cannot pass a state electrical inspection due to errors made during the construction process. In light of recent developments, the city council on Monday rescinded a previously approved pay request to the pool's general contractor, Eriksen Construction, worth $308,441. According to discussion, there is no way the facility can open this summer and s...
Costs for most goods and services may be rising, but there will be few increases in fees for the 2022-23 school year at Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn. The schedule approved by the board on Monday only calls for increases in activity ticket prices, which are due to changes in gate admissions. Superintendent Patrick Carlin said meal prices will be determined by the state at a later date. The district will charge a fee for school-related credit card transactions to JMC. The $1.50 fee is at the lower end...
Royal city council members are happy with how local residents are responding to letters asking them to clean up their properties. During discussion on June 8, council members were informed that after a second inspection of properties, only 10 had not completely addressed issues listed in notices they had received. That compares to the more than 50 properties that were identified during the initial survey conducted in April. “That is outstanding,” responded Mayor Josh Toft. According to Council Member Mitch Fahnlander, progress was made at the...
• Traffic Abdikarim Ahmed Muhumed, South Sioux City, Neb., Speeding. Kyle Delfort Begay, Gamerco, N.M., Open Container; Speeding. Isaac Norton, Sanborn, Minor with Tobacco. Jennifer Marie Perez Vazquez, Sheldon, Speeding. Amed Jose Castro-Chavez, Estherville, Speeding. Sheila Nadine Ross, Estherville, No Proof of Insurance. Logan Jeffrey Abbott, Sanborn, Speeding. Loran Matthew Stanbery, Primghar, Registration Violation; Seatbelt Violation. Oscar Morales Gonzalez, Grand Island, Neb., No Valid Driver’s License. Donavan Sheriff, Sheldon, Spe...
Upcoming program at Hartley library A program on local foraging will be held at the Hartley Public Library on Saturday, June 25, at 9:30 a.m. The program will be presented by a member of O’Brien County Conservation and is open to the public. Winnie Mack turns 101 on June 25 Winnie Mack, of Hartley, will turn 101 on Saturday, June 25. A card shower is requested to mark the occassion. See the ad on Page 5 for more details. 2 specials at Red’s Catering next week Red’s Cater in downtown Hartley will be serving scalloped potatoes and ham as well...
UI spring semester dean's list announced More than 4,000 undergraduate students at the University of Iowa were named to the dean's list for the 2022 spring semester. Dean's list status was earned by 714 first year undergraduates during the 2022 spring semester at Iowa, 1,268 second year students, 1,559 third year students and 2,045 fourth year students. Area students named to the UI dean's list are identified with their major and year at Iowa. Everly: Savanna Handy, College of Liberal Arts and...
Last week Okoboji Lutheran Bible Camp's day camp crew headed to Royal's Bethlehem Lutheran Church for a week of Vacation Bible School fun with the congregation's children along with Hope Lutheran Church of Everly's youth. The week's theme was "Anchored in Hope" with a nautical thread tying the program together. Daily themes included "Anchored In the Creator," "Anchored in the Word" and "Anchored in the Light." Day camp days were filled with Bible study, story time, crafting, game play and...
Oversized ribbons and scissors were put on the shelf in Hartley this week. Local kids will have to wait yet one more year to take their inaugural dip in the new pool, and that's a jagged pill to swallow. More of a gut punch, really. The entire community was buzzing this spring about the new pool's impending opening. If you're unaware of the details that unfolded this week, direct your eyes to our main story on Page 1. It flat out stinks. According to information shared during Monday's special ci...
What is happening to us? What passes for public discussion these days certainly is not civil or thoughtful. Nor is it really much of a discussion. If you read the comments from some supposed leaders, you find references to the members of the other political party being our enemies. It’s not just Republicans doing this. It’s Democrats, too. Enemies are those people on the other side of the guns in a war. Our enemies are not the people in our own state, or around the nation, who disagree with us...
General Fund revenue for the state continued to come in strong, as tax receipts in May were 43.6 percent higher than what the state collected in May 2021. While some of this increase is attributable to a variety of tax filing deadlines falling on a weekend at the end of April, the strong revenue number continues the state on a path to collect more revenue than what the Revenue Estimating Conference (REC) projected. Leading the revenue growth this month was personal income tax, which generated...
My parents both were savers. My dad always said, "I might be able to use that someday." If my mom would throw something away that she didn't need anymore, my dad would sometimes take it out of the trash and they would have a discussion about it. That didn't happen very often, though. One of the things I remember my mom saving was worn out clothing. I'm talking about clothes that had gone from sibling to sibling after coming from a cousin or two. If Mom determined they were worn out, they were...
A funeral service for Josena C. Egdorf was held Saturday, June 18, 2022, at St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church in Sanborn. Pastor Kevin Gingerich officiated. Pallbearers were Jay Downing, Jeffrey Downing, Kenny Downing, Chase Downing, Nathan Egdorf and Matthew Egdorf. Interment was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery at Primghar. Sanborn Funeral Home assisted with the arrangements. Josena Cornelia “Josie” (Brouwer) Egdorf was born near Rock Valley on April 3, 1930, to parents Fred and Cornelia “Cora” Brouwer. She was born 15 minutes after her twin...
A memorial service for Marilyn J. Meyer will be held at Bethany Lutheran Church in Spencer on Saturday, July 9 at 1 p.m. The family requests no flowers and masks are optional. A reception will follow the service at the church. Meyer, of Everly, died on Jan. 31 at the age of 89. Services were originally postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic....
• June 26, 1947 Six midget mules, the only hitch of its kind in the United States, were in Hartley. According to handler Brownie Beck, the rare animals were gotten together after a long search over many states. Pulling a calliope, the little fellows attracted a large crowd of all ages. In a very appropriate service at the Methodist church, Rev. Stanley Kruschwitz, assisted by Mrs. L.J. Parks and Mrs. Hobart Putnam, presented service folders to the young men and women whose service stars had been on the service flag of the church. The folders b...
Fifty head of cattle and nearly 100 sheep were shown by competitors in the Third Annual Buena Vista University Livestock Show Classic hosted by the BVU Institute for Agriculture on June 4-5. "We had competitors from throughout Iowa and into South Dakota and Minnesota," said Mike Christen, land manager serving BVU's Agricultural Experiment Station and coach for the BVU livestock show team. "With two to four people accompanying each show animal, it meant that we had a sizeable contingent of...
The month of June has been a winless one for the Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn baseball team, which extended its losing streak to 10 games last week. Remsen St. Mary's, the top-ranked team in Class 1A, took the early lead and never looked back in a 15-0 defeat of H-M-S on June 13 in Hartley. St. Mary's took control with a five-run first inning. They scored four runs in the second and third innings, and added single runs in the next two frames. Losing pitcher Evan Eilers surrendered 13 runs (10 earned)...
Runs remained at a premium for the Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn softball team, which scored just twice in four games last week, all of which were losses. H-M-S had only two baserunners in an 11-0 home loss to Remsen St. Mary's on June 13. Abby Otto hit a single in the first inning and Eliza Tewes walked in the third to account for the Hawks' limited activity on the base paths. St. Mary's started their scoring with a run in the first inning and added three runs in each of the next three innings. A run...
