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Kalona, Wellman, Washington libraries awarded at Annual Dinner
By Cheryl Allen
The News
RIVERSIDE
Over 300 business professionals and community members gathered at the Riverside Casino …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/11/25 01:12 PM
WELLMAN
Making a decision on who will collect Wellman’s garbage for the next five years turned out to be more complicated for the Wellman City Council on Monday night than they perhaps …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/7/25 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
If there were such a thing as a ‘typical’ city council meeting, the meeting Tuesday night in Wellman would probably qualify.
An update from Mary Audia of the Washington Economic …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/28/25 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
Small towns need oil change and tire shops, especially when residents’ 50-mile round-trip commutes burn oil and rubber like it’s going out of fashion. For a while Wellman lost theirs …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/14/25 08:00 AM
Folks turned out for the Wellman Food Pantry’s Soup & Chili Cookoff fundraiser on Sunday, Feb. 2, making the event a big success. The Food Pantry, which is based out of Asbury United Methodist …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/7/25 08:00 AM
Pat and Krista Gent have been raising pigs from wean to finish on their family farm in Wellman for over a decade, doing everything from grinding feed and hauling pigs to marketing. At the Iowa Pork …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/7/25 08:00 AM
It might not be flashy, but sometimes progress means replacing 100-year-old infrastructure and reversing course on decades of apathy. City administrator Kelly Litwiller and mayor Ryan Miller talked …
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Interview by Cheryl Allen |
1/31/25 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
For the past 20 years, the Wellman Food Pantry has served the community from the basement of Asbury United Methodist Church, making sure families are fed and households adequately stocked …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/31/25 08:00 AM
People flooded into the Parkside banquet room on Wednesday night, Jan. 22, for the Wellman Rotary’s soup supper, which served as a fundraiser for a new veterans/first responders memorial in town. …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/31/25 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Inauguration Day– neither kept the Wellman City Council from meeting on Monday, although some council members were eager to get back to celebrating the return …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/24/25 08:00 AM
KALONA
Local grocers Freeman Foods and JW’s Foods were among 20 recipients of Rural Innovation Grants announced Jan. 9 by Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Economic Development Authority (EIDA). …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/17/25 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
When the City of Wellman purchased the high-visibility lot on the corner of 8th Avenue and Highway 22 last March – vacant, but for an LED sign – they had an inkling of what they wanted …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/17/25 08:00 AM
KALONA
His bright smile, his penchant for humor and laughter, his positivity and joy. These are the traits that come to mind when people think David Tornow, a “great guy with a big heart” who …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/10/25 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
With work set to begin on replacing the 9th Avenue/Gingko Avenue bridge as soon as Monday, Jan. 13, the Wellman City Council spent the bulk of their meeting Monday night looking at the …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/10/25 08:00 AM
KALONA
The ice storm that kept most of us home on Saturday, Dec. 14 was ill-timed, falling precisely at a moment where many had holiday events to attend and shopping to do. It might have been an …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/3/25 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
Prior to owning Kalona Coffee House with wife Rhonda, as he has since 2010, Jeff Yoder was never really that into coffee. She was the passionate one, learning the ropes at Caribou Coffee …
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By Cheryl Allen |
12/27/24 08:00 AM
WASHINGTON
The ribbon cutting at the Washington YMCA’s new Aquatic Center on Tuesday, Dec. 10 was nothing short of a “momentous event.” The gathering of donors and community members from …
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By Cheryl Allen |
12/20/24 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
In an unusually long year-end meeting Monday night, the Wellman City Council reflected on a host of services, from those offered by the library and Goodwin Senior Dining to the adequacy of …
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By Cheryl Allen |
12/20/24 08:00 AM
DES MOINES
When dancers from Lone Tree and Mid-Prairie high schools arrived in Des Moines on Dec. 4, their hearts raced with excitement and nerves. They had been preparing for this weekend since …
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By Cheryl Allen |
12/20/24 08:00 AM
KALONA
Unfortunately for many area residents on Saturday, Dec. 14 predictions by the National Weather Service largely proved true. The ice storm, which began overnight, produced ice-covered roads …
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By Cheryl Allen |
12/20/24 08:00 AM
