Articles from the May 7, 2020 edition
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Feeding a need
The COVID-19 pandemic has created economic turmoil and shut down countless activities over the last two months, but it hasn't stopped local volunteers from feeding children in need. The... Full story
CC/E seeking replacement for Busch
The search to replace outgoing Clay Central/Everly Elementary Principal Curt Busch is becoming clearer. According to discussion at the April 27 school board meeting, Heidi Vasher has been offered a...
CMHC gets praise for prevention
State inspectors recently gave a local nursing and assisted living facility big praise for COVID-19 prevention efforts. Community Memorial Health Center in Hartley was commended last week by the Iowa...
Election officials pushing voters to cast ballots from home
Local election officials are hoping to keep residents away from the ballot box this year, but they still want people to vote. O'Brien County Auditor Barb Rohwer has joined other election...
Don't let the emergency declarations become the emergency
Although it seems like a lifetime ago, we've only been at war with the invisible enemy – the COVID-19 virus – for a couple of months. Earliest reports of the novel coronavirus were horrendous – the d...
Pork producers want to feed the world, not want to bury their product
Last Wednesday, at the invitation of House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, I went to Worthington, Minn., to participate in a press conference to focus attention on the current crisis i...
S-N Editorial: Partial re-opening, many questions
The what-ifs of the COVID-19 pandemic hardly seem answered almost two months after everything shut down. Iowa re-opened some shuttered businesses and other gathering places this week, but after all we’ve been warned about this virus, you have to w...
