Articles from the December 29, 2022 edition
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Out with the old
And just like that, the sun has set on 2022 and we're on to the New Year. Though the pages of the Sentinel-News were filled with hundreds of stories over the past 365 days, some stood head and...
Pre-Christmas blizzard blasts NWI
It wasn't so much the snow as it was the wind. An intense winter storm blew through the upper Midwest last week just in time to wreck travel plans and cancel Christmas events throughout the region....
O'Brien County farmland is prettiest penny in Iowa
The average value of an acre of O'Brien County farmland is now the highest in Iowa. The annual Iowa State Land Value Survey released this month reported a 20.6 percent increase in O'Brien County...
12/29/22: Crime, Courts, Accidents & Incidents
• Arrested on active warrant Jacob Jepson, 39, (no address given) was taken into custody by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office at 11:04 a.m. on Dec. 19, on an active warrant for Violation of Probation (two charges). Bond was set at $4,000 cash only, an...
Part of a northwest Iowa river has been pumped dry
A significant stretch of a northwest Iowa river has run dry several times in the past seven years as a rural water utility has pumped more water from the ground – at least a quarter of which is s... 
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Joyce A. Muckey, 64, Hartley
Funeral services for Joyce A. Muckey will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022, at First Baptist Church in Spencer, with Rev. Curtis Batschelet officiating. Hudson Jacobs, Tian Jacobs, Spenser M...
From Our Files
• Jan. 1, 1948 The free mailing privilege which service men and women had enjoyed since March 27, 1942, by simply writing “Free” in the upper right hand corner of the envelope and the name, serial number and address in the left hand corner, ended on...
Fall ESL session concludes at St. Paul's
St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Hartley completed the fall session of English as a second language (ESL) on Dec. 13 by holding a celebration with the students and volunteers. Church leaders expressed...
It's official
For two Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn High School football players, the 2023 early signing day on Dec. 21 was a family affair. Parents, grandparents and siblings, as well as teammates and friends witnessed...
And the first shall be the last
With Unity Christian leaving the War Eagle Conference at the end of the 2022-23 school year, Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn had one last chance to earn its first boys' basketball victory against the Knights....
Ever so close
Despite having four players score in double figures and leading for three quarters of the game, Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn lost in overtime to Gehlen Catholic, 62-59, on Dec. 20 in Hartley. The bulk of...
12/29/22: Community Calendar
Hartley garbage reminder Brommer Sanitation will collect garbage in Hartley on Tuesday, Jan. 3 due to the New Year’s holiday. HCC trivia night on New Year’s Eve The Hartley Community Center will host a New Year’s Eve trivia night on Saturday, Dec....
