Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
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Fireworks continued in northwest Iowa the day after Independence Day. A massive thunderstorm system slammed the tri-state area on July 5 leaving downed trees, damaged property, bent crops and power outages in its wake. In Hartley, electricity was out for approximately three hours. Several homes and vehicles also received heavy damage due to felled tree limbs, which also snapped power lines throughout town. The National Weather Service (NWS) in Sioux Falls classified the storm as a derecho,...
Employees affected by the ongoing closure of Hartley's new pool will receive compensation. The Hartley City Council on June 29 agreed to pay pool manager Pam Mohni her salary of $9,270. Unable to work because of the pool's indefinite closure, Mohni would have been out of the sum had the city council not acted. The amount was previously approved when Mohni was hired in March to run the new pool. The council also agreed to pay lifeguards affected by the indefinite closure; however, a final number...
Clay Central/Everly Superintendent Kevin Wood is concerned that a recent change in state open enrollment rules will have an adverse affect on small rural school districts across Iowa. Parents can now enroll their children in any public school regardless of where they live at any point throughout the year thanks to a new law signed last month by Gov. Kim Reynolds. It removes the March 1 deadline to declare their intention to switch districts and took effect immediately, meaning families no...
• Traffic Hussein Farah Khalif, Shakopee, Minn., Hours of Service Violation. Michael Diaz, Chino, Calif., Hours of Service Violation. Yury Zasulevich, Champlin, Minn., Speeding. Selina Marie Triplett, Sutherland, Speeding. Jonathan W. Jennings, Sanborn, Seatbelt Violation. Benjamin D. Lindgren, South Sioux City, Neb., Speeding. Rachel Ann Wilson, Hartley, Speeding. Vanessa Medina, Paullina, Speeding. Zachary Olney, Columbus, Neb., Speeding. Kelvin Robert Lansink, Primghar, Dark Windows. John Richard Trierweiler, Luverne, Minn., Dark Windows. R...
Graduate from South Dakota State University Four area students were among the more than 1,500 spring 2022 semester graduates who met all requirements for a degree and/or certificate program at South Dakota State University in Brookings. Students from 33 states and 20 nations graduated following the spring 2022 semester, with more than 100 students receiving two or more degrees or certificates from an SDSU college. The following area graduates are listed by degree and college. Everly: Ty J. Schoelerman, Bachelor of Science, College of...
Programs for adults at HPL in July Hartley Public Library will host a game night for adults at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 8. Board games, Card Against Humanity and many other options will be available. In keeping with the summer library program theme of “Reading Beyond the Beaten Path,” the library is hosting a camp craft night for adults. It will be held on Monday, July 11 at 6:30 p.m. Participants will make pressed flower tote bags. The library will also host a knitting boot camp on Saturday, July 16 at 9:30 a.m. Have all your questions ans...
The 2022 O'Brien County Fair is just around the corner. This year's fair kicks off on Saturday, July 23 with a Tractor Ride at 9 a.m. Participants will begin the ride from the fairgrounds in Primghar, with dinner being served on the route. The open crafts will also be judged on Saturday, and entrants can begin to bring those items to the fairgrounds beginning at 7:30 a.m. Anyone from O'Brien County is encouraged to exhibit and the entry fee is only $1 per exhibitor. The special class in...
I've held several titles in my life. They run the gambit from professional ones like "reporter" and "news editor," to more personal ones like "dad" and "husband." This spring, I added "coach." We signed up our oldest, Oliver, for tee ball this spring in Hartley. My better half suggested I volunteer as a coach, and several weeks of staring at the COACHES NEEDED ad in this very newspaper finally resulted in me joining on. Lindsay Kracht and I were the only ones who originally volunteered to lead 3...
The college sports world was flipped on its head once again last week when news broke that the University of Southern California and the University of California Los Angeles would be joining the Big Ten Conference in 2024. The announcement marked yet another cataclysmic shift in college sports, which was already changing at a rapid pace. Nobody is questioning the motives behind the move. This will bode better for all parties involved – both USC and UCLA will get a much larger financial cut than they were getting in the PAC 12 Conference, and t...
Like any non-profit organization, the Clay County Fair Association is currently seeking candidates for the board of directors, as well as interested individuals to become members of the Association. Each year, the association's nominating committee seeks individuals to serve as candidates for election to the board of directors. The committee then reviews all interested candidates for possible inclusion on a ballot that will be submitted to the fair association membership as part of the fair...
I hope everyone found the long and beautiful holiday weekend to be a fantastic one! We are exhausted, but our cups overflow as we were blessed to spend time with most of our families, cherishing time with one another making memories. This weekend, and every holiday weekend for that matter, just seems to fly by so quickly. I am a firm believer that after every holiday weekend there should be a required vacation day or two to recoup from said holiday. A bit overkill maybe, but I deem it nearly nec...
A funeral service for Marcia R. “Marcy” Embrey was held Friday, July 1, 2022, at Grace Fellowship Church in Hartley. Pastor Lynn Dau officiated. Pallbearers were Stephen Embrey, Matthew Embrey, Paul Nasers, Ryan Nasers, Robert Nasers and Dustin Meyers. Interment was at Pleasant View Cemetery in Hartley. Hartley Funeral Home assisted with the arrangements. Marcia Ray “Marcy” Embrey was born Sept. 7, 1969 in Hartley, to Jack and Janyce (Lage) Marco. She grew up in Hartley, the middle child, connecting her younger sister, Mindy, and her older sist...
• July 10, 1947 A caravan consisting of four young people and counselors met with the Hartley Methodist Church Youth Fellowship group to help revitalize and strengthen the youth program, and give a clear vision of the Christian responsibility on every phase of life. A truck loaded with milk for the Hartley Creamery ran off the grade north of the bridge across the Ocheyedan River during a thunderstorm. Not much damage was done to the truck and no milk was spilled. Several trucks and a wrecking car from Everly were needed to get the truck back on...
The Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn baseball team may have felt as though they were in a time warp during the opening round of the Class 1A district baseball tournament. In an eerily similar inning to one they had a year ago in district play, the Hawks could not prevent their opponent from putting up a double-digit run total. That set the stage for Bishop Garrigan's 15-3 win July 2 at Algona. The Hawks had the makings of a significant rally of their own in the second inning, when they loaded the bases...
South O'Brien's first-inning lead was no stumbling block for Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn's baseball team, which came back to claim a 5-3 win on June 27 in Hartley. Two hits and an error allowed the Wolverines to go ahead 2-0, but H-M-S answered with a pair of runs on singles by Tanner Tesch and Nick Bronstad. Jordan Ortega's two-run double in the second inning and two Wolverine errors helped the Hawks take a 5-2 lead. "I was very happy with the way we responded after a rough top of the first," Hawk...
Wins on three consecutive nights helped Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn's softball team improve its final regular season record to 10-14, doubling their win total from a year ago. The week could have started differently if H-M-S hadn't answered a challenge by visiting South O'Brien on June 27. The Hawks surrendered a three-run lead in the seventh inning but came up with a big hit in their last at-bat to emerge with the 5-4 win. "It was a great game by both teams," Hawk coach Stephanie Bronstad said. "We...
