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Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 3:37pm
HARDIN COUNTY – Hardin County proposes just short of $26 million in expenditures for the coming fiscal year.
As is customary the biggest single portion of the total will go towards rural roads and transportation issues. That is about $7 and a half million.
Read the full article in the March...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 3:35pm
HARDIN COUNTY – As a result of the deteriorating conditions on county gravel roads, the Hardin County Engineer’s office is enacting a countywide embargo as of Thursday March 14. A 5-ton per axle limit is specified. Hardin County does not have the resources to erect signs on every road,...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 3:34pm
HARDIN COUNTY – It is almost April and that means you can expect to see road crews pulling into the area in a matter of just weeks.
You could think of it as a huge pothole eradication program, for everyone who drives Highway 175 between Highway 65 and 14.
The smoother asphalt surface...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 3:31pm
ELDORA – Thursday, March 21 is the first day of spring and to celebrate the new Eldora community garden organizers will have the garden’s ‘leased plots’ available to subscribers.
They come at $35 for a tilled, 10 foot by 12 foot section inside the fenced-in area of the...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 3:30pm
ELDORA – It is budget time for local governments. March means laying out a plan of expected expenditures and revenues for the coming fiscal year.
And when the subject became money, city manager Dave Mitchell returned to a theme he’s brought up several times since he assumed the job....
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 10:42am
The Eldora Newspapers was there when Girl Scouting started in Eldora not long after the dawn of the 20th Century. One very grainy photo celebrated the start.
It was what would become the America Legion Auxiliary, which spearheaded the project in the community.
Girl Scouting, nationally had started...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 10:33am
It was $55,000 and still awaiting the final count, which promised to be larger still.
Once again, Timothy Christian School’s annual March auction didn’t disappoint. The crowds swelled beyond the doors of the community hall in Wellsburg and the bidding made everyone connected with the...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 10:27am
Suddenly health care is crowding its way into everyplace from city halls to the county courthouse.
Economizing on health care turns out to be more than just an exercise in frugality, it turns out it’s having a critical impact on everything from hometown hospitals, to ambulances services, to...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 10:22am
The Southfork Watershed Alliance looks forward to celebrating its 20th year by sharing something called the ACPF computerized conservation planning tool with area landowners.
It is another layer of high technology, which helps landowners pick among various conservation practices and predict their...
Friday, March 8, 2019 - 10:23am
Finding their inspiration back in time - some far back, some not so far - kids of the E-NP TAG program devote several weeks every year, to researching and re-creating a character out of history, bringing the individual back to life for friends and family one day of the school year.
The TAG program...
Friday, March 8, 2019 - 10:17am
Colin Hurd, founder and CEO of Smart Ag, will be the kick-off speaker at the North Central Iowa Crop and Land Stewardship Clinic being held Friday, March 15 at the Iowa Falls - Alden High School in Iowa Falls.
Hurd will be joined by a host of extension and Iowa State University specialist for the...
Friday, March 8, 2019 - 10:08am
Managed care is the private sector bringing a new discipline to government-backed health insurances, its defenders say. But last week came concerns managed care might prove money-wise, but wholesale destructive of small town medicine.
Creating a “health care desert” in rural areas.
The...
