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Over 3,000 people were served at Kalona Fire’s annual breakfast on Saturday, April 6. The department raised over $70,000.
Over 100 people were lined up before the breakfast offically began …
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By TJ Rhodes |
4/12/24 08:00 AM
KALONA
Between 2008 and 2022, almost 14% of Iowa’s pharmacies closed their doors, thanks to pressure from Pharmacy Benefit Managers, big box retailers, and mail order pharmacies. Independent, …
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By Cheryl Allen |
4/5/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
When Mercy Iowa City hospital filed bankruptcy in late 2023, the fate of the Kalona health clinic, Mercy Family Medicine, was thrown into question. UI Health Care acquired the clinic in …
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By Cheryl Allen |
4/5/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
In early March, following the receipt of their FCC license, Mary’s Holy Voice KMHV 89.5 FM, officially began broadcasting from Kalona, bringing Catholic talk radio to the area. To …
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By Cheryl Allen |
4/5/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
As newly required by state law, the Kalona City Council held dual sessions Monday night, the first a public hearing for the proposed property tax levy for FY24-25, the second their regular …
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By Cheryl Allen |
4/5/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
The Kalona Historical Village hosted an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, March 30. Droves of children prepared to collect as many eggs as possible with a mad-dash.
It did not take …
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By TJ Rhodes |
3/30/24 02:36 PM
On the afternoon of March 31 last year, a Friday, early spring winds howled across Iowa.
Severe storms were in the forecast.
Another typical late March day, right?
The skies grew dark …
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By Paul D. Bowker |
3/30/24 12:12 AM
WELLMAN
At 4:22 p.m. Friday, Kari Honsey snapped one last photo of the massive funnel cloud on the southwest horizon and then headed down to the cellar. She grabbed her bicycle helmet, a granola …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/29/24 12:00 PM
WASHINGTON
In a written arraignment March 22 filed by his attorney, Keegan Gingerich of Kalona pled not guilty to four felony charges, including Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, Stalking (two …
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By Mary Zielinski |
3/29/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
Approximately 100,000 gallons of water were required to extinguish a blaze in rural Kalona Thursday, causing Kalona firefighters to make repeated trips in and out of town for the better …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/29/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
On Wednesday, March 20, a group of Kosovars and their local hosts toured six Kalona businesses thanks to a connection forged by Friendship Force International, an organization that promotes …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/29/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
Many of us have worked in convenience stores but dreamed of climbing the Himalayas. Dawa Sherpa lived the opposite: he grew up in Nepal in the shadow of the world’s third-highest peak, …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/29/24 12:00 PM
WASHINGTON
Arraignment for Keegan Gingerich, 21, of Kalona has been set for Friday, March 22, at 9 a.m. The order came through in the morning Friday, March 15.
Gingerich faces four felony …
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By Mary Zielinski |
3/22/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
When the City of Kalona was issued its most recent discharge permit for the wastewater treatment facility a couple years ago by the DNR, it came with new limits for effluent wastewater – …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/22/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
Identical twins Levi and Landan Paulsen, former linemen for the Iowa Hawkeyes and Kalona residents since 2020, came before the Kalona City Council Monday night, requesting the use of …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/22/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
Elizabeth “Betty” Barnett enjoys life at Pleasantview, surrounded by fellow residents who have become her friends in the last few years since moving here. Many of them are Mennonites, a …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/22/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
When folks drive by Ramsey Creek Woodworks on Hwy 1 just north of Kalona, they don’t always know what exactly the business does. Is it a furniture store or something?
“We mainly do …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/22/24 12:00 PM
KALONA
Kalona has developed a reputation for quality home products and services, and on Friday and Saturday, March 22-23, many of them will be represented under one roof for the Kalona Home Show. …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/22/24 12:00 PM
HILLS
Hills Bank is one of the largest banks in Iowa, something you might never guess given it is headquartered in Hills, a small town of fewer than 800 residents. Founded in 1904 by 19 local …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/22/24 12:00 PM