Articles from the March 4, 2021 edition
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HARTLEY POOL BOND PASSES WITH 84 PERCENT
Any doubts about support for a new pool in Hartley were crushed Tuesday. Voters in the City With a Heart overwhelmingly supported a $1.7 million bond issue that will partially finance construction of...
Everly Commercial Club looks to disband
A lack of members and community interest has a local club staring down its final days. The Everly Commercial Club will hold a meeting on March 9 to vote on disbanding. President Chris Dodd broached...
Bidding farewell to Fiesta Foods
Greg Musch and Cathy Sweet-Musch have spent more than 20 years in Hartley, but the clock is winding down fast. The owners of Fiesta Foods will call it quits once doors lock at the local grocery store...
The price of the polar vortex
Millions of Americans will feel the pinch of February's polar vortex when they open their gas bills this month, but residents in Everly can breathe easy. The Everly Municipal Utilities Board of...
CC/E board discusses enrollment numbers
Declining enrollment numbers were a topic of discussion Feb. 24 during the Clay Central/Everly school board meeting. Superintendent Kevin Wood provided an update on CC/E's PK-6 student population, whi...
Winter concert features many musical genres
The winter concert presented by Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn High School instrumental and vocal students on Feb. 22 featured something for everyone: jazz swing and rock classics; music from movie...
Snowy fun at CMHC
Third graders at Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn Elementary went to Community Memorial Health Center in Hartley on Feb. 22 to build snowmen outside of the residents' windows. The weather was beautiful and the...
03/04/21: Area Happenings & Accomplishments
Vet tech students receive pins Students enrolled in Northeast Community College’s veterinary technology program received their white lab coats and pins during a special ceremony held recently in Norfolk, Neb. Members of the class of 2021 received the...
03/04/21: Community Calendar
CC/E drive-thru fish fry is March 5 Clay Central/Everly will hold a drive-thru fish fry on Friday, March 5, from 5-7 p.m. A variety of tasty food will be served for guests to pick up at the front of the elementary school in Royal. See the ad on Page...
Clay County lifts mask order
An order in Clay County requiring that people wear masks in public places when social distancing cannot be maintained has been lifted. The order was approved by the board of supervisors in December...
S-N Editorial
Hartley taxpayers can give themselves a big, hard pat on the back. Voters on Tuesday approved the $1.7 pool bond measure with 84 percent of the vote. That's huge, and it proved city residents are...
Over Morning Coffee
Capitalism has been the engine driving our economy since the earliest settlers arrived to colonize the New World under charters from the Virginia Company of London and the Massachusetts Bay Company....
03/04/21: Crime, Courts, Accidents & Incidents
• Traffic Jennifer Ann Schultz, Sheldon, Driving While Suspended. Kelsey Jo Daniels, Paullina, Passing School Bus. Brandon Michael Koch, Primghar, Driving While Suspended. Tejon Malik Conrad, Primghar, Driving While Suspended, 2 counts. Jeffrey G. G...
Threading a Quilt of Kindness at CC/E
Clay Central/Everly Elementary students celebrated Random Act of Kindness Week with a guidance class project. After reading the book The Kindness Quilt by Nancy Elizabeth, the classes discussed how...
Robert L. Gable, 93, Hartley
A funeral service for Robert L. Gable was held Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021, at Grace Fellowship Church in Hartley. Pastor Lynn Dau officiated. Pallbearers were Greg Paulsen, Scott Carstensen, Doug Streit, Dan Thompson, Chris Walters and Greg Hellinga....
Hazel C. Christenson, 103, Spencer
Hazel Catherine Christenson, the daughter of Mathilde Jane and Joseph Hansen, was born July 7, 1917 in Rose Grove Township near Popejoy. Hazel graduated from Iowa State University, College of Home Economics, in 1937 and worked at the World’s Fair i...
From Our Files
• March 7, 1946 Since the war many business places were showing improvements. One of them was the Hartley Creamery which sported a new four wheel egg “carrier” built by Harry Fahrenkrog, one of the men at the plant. In keeping with a natio...
03/04/21: Sports Briefs
H-M-S sophomore Lance Berends named to 1A substate team A Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn player has been named to an all-substate team by the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association. Lance Berends is one of eight players, including five from the War Eagle Confer...
H-M-S lands 2 on boys' all-War Eagle first team
Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn has two players on the 2020-21 all-War Eagle Conference boys' basketball first team. Lance Berends and Kooper Ebel, both sophomores, are among the first-team selections that...
2 H-M-S girls named to all-conference teams
A pair of Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn girls' basketball players are among those named to the 2020-21 War Eagle all-conference teams. Senior Taya Mason is included on the all-WEC second team. Named...
2020-21 H-M-S boys' basketball stats
The Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn boys' basketball team finished the 2020-21 season with an overall record of 13-10. It was the first time H-M-S finished with an above-.500 record since 2015-16. The season...
H-M-S girls' basketball stats
The Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn girls' basketball team compiled a 5-17 record during the 2020-21 season. The Hawks' 3-7 record in War Eagle Conference play represented one fewer win than the prior season....
Okoboji/H-M-S wrestling records
Okoboji/H-M-S compiled a dual record of 9-22 during the 2020-21 wrestling season. The Pioneers finished with a Siouxland Conference dual record of 2-5, giving them a sixth place finish. This was the...
21 deer test positive for chronic wasting disease
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources' 2020 surveillance of Iowa's wild deer herd for the presence of chronic wasting disease has yielded 21 new positive deer, and has added two new counties to...
