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Monday, August 20, 2018 - 7:31am
ELDORA – Wednesday morning’s Hardin County Board of Supervisors meeting kicked off with a spat over an angry voicemail directed at Chairman BJ Hoffman and only went downhill from there. (Read it all in the Tuesday Ledger)
Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 9:28am
HARDIN COUNTY – “People will do things in a car club they would never do by themselves.”
And so car enthusiast Dave Muhlena of Union-Whitten, who long wanted to visit the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, assembled a company of like-minded Hardin County Cruisers for the trip to...
Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 9:27am
ELDORA – The week of August 27, or thereabouts, you may notice some surveyors in town, walking the streets with data recorders.
It is the forest service. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has shared in a grant to study the passage of nutrients through soil and into the...
Thursday, August 16, 2018 - 9:25am
ELDORA – If you are one of nation’s 50 secretaries of state you have something new atop the to-do list.
Was a time everyone took for granted the basic integrity of elections? You might not like the outcome, and maybe there were some suspicions about places...
Monday, August 13, 2018 - 8:35am
by Rick Patrie
News Editor
HUBBARD – It is no longer a fund raising work in progress, but instead a construction site. The folks in Hubbard had, earlier this summer, went over the top with their $900,000 fund raising drive to finance the construction of the Hubbard Medical Center...
Monday, August 13, 2018 - 8:32am
By: Robert Maharry
Staff writer
ELDORA- The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and another Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) application in Hardin County came under the scrutiny of four dedicated critics during the most recent regular supervisors meeting at the courthouse...
Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 8:39am
By: ROBERT MAHARRY
Mid-America Publishing
AREA- When Toni Nederhoff opened her first American Family Insurance office in Eldora in 1998, she had a five year plan: she was going to get her kids through school and get out of it. Twenty years and two new offices later, she’s still growing...
Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 8:36am
IOWA FALLS– It’s a rite of passage.
Hit or approach 65, and your senior status kicks in. All of a sudden invitations to apply for Medicare and its supplementals are showing up in the mail.
As a result, Iowa’s Senior Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) and Hansen...
Thursday, August 9, 2018 - 8:29am
Always the guests of honor in Union and Whitten, and so again at the Tar Heels Day parade, were the girls of the class of 1968, state champions forever. More Tar Heel Day and parade pictures on page 8.
Monday, August 6, 2018 - 12:35pm
Events transpired in such a way the county Republicans didn’t have a sufficient time window in which to list their candidate for county attorney on the June Primary ballot.
They fixed that a week ago when Republicans met to formally put Darrell Meyer’s name on the November ballot. He is...
Monday, August 6, 2018 - 7:23am
If you fix the official start date with the organizational ceremony and the election of the first board of directors, and the ribbon cutting by then Mayor Glen Dole of Eldora – this summer was 20 years for the Hardin County Farm Museum. A weekend ago the museum site held its annual...
Monday, August 6, 2018 - 7:20am
A Meservey veteran of multiple Middle East tours, himself recovering from severe injuries, says he hopes a sculpture he has given an Eldora family will bring some peace to everyone.
They lost a serviceman son a year ago.
Anthony Martin says creating sculptures has brought him some peace, too....
