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Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 12:25pm
ELDORA – Great ideas have a life of their own, and this one lives by popular demand.
The Eldora 50-plus Alumni Association became the subject of rumors last year, reports that the big annual gathering of most senior Eldora classes would be coming to an end. The long time organizers had...
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 12:24pm
SOUTH HARDIN – There will be a summer vacation this year.
Cancellation is out of the question.
But, that is about all the folks at the South Hardin Schools can guarantee at the moment, because chances are good that at this very moment there is more snow piling up outside your window....
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 12:22pm
The newspapers made the news as industry professionals across the state attended the annual Iowa Newspaper Association Convention and Trade Show.
The three-day convention kicked off on Wednesday, February 6 with a legislative meet-and-greet where reporters and legislators from across the state met...
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 12:20pm
ELDORA – The rules of the snow season.
This began as a winter when the rules of the snow didn’t often come up. But this past couple of weeks turned things around with a healthy dose of snow that reminded everyone of the rules of the snow road and the sidewalk here in town.
Read the full...
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 12:17pm
HARDIN COUNTY – Davis Horton with Calkins Nature Center wants to talk to you about fly-fishing.
This month he has been enlisting the interested in learning to tie flies, and come April he would like to teach you how to use them.
Read the full article in the February 15 edition of The Hardin...
Thursday, February 14, 2019 - 12:15pm
ELDORA – If you want to help out your local firefighter, consider adopting the fire hydrant down the street.
The last few weeks have shown once again how critical hydrant adoptions can be.
Read the full article in the February 15 edition of The Hardin County Index.
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Monday, February 11, 2019 - 4:11pm
UNION – A Union couple is the face of Valentine’s Day in the newspapers this year. Roy and Ann Caster have celebrated 66 years together since they met when she moved to Union to take a teaching position, and he had just come back from the service.
She remembers the honeymoon was...
Monday, February 11, 2019 - 4:03pm
HARDIN COUNTY – It will last 100 years and is as dependable as the ground beneath the Hardin County Courthouse.
It will add close to $90,000 to the $1.8 million courthouse heating and cooling project already under way, but coming up with the extra financing doesn’t represent a...
Monday, February 11, 2019 - 3:59pm
HARDIN COUNTY – On the average, Iowans transfer $4.9 billion dollars of wealth to the next generation each year. Hardin County residents account for $52.1 million.
Most, of course, goes to surviving family members or personal affiliations, but each estate settlement represents a chance to...
Monday, February 11, 2019 - 3:58pm
HARDIN COUNTY – Each generation has a tendency to learn a shared lesson. And for the generation that was out house hunting in the first years of the 21st Century, the lesson has been hard to get over.
That tidal wave of mortgage problems now a decade ago clobbered the...
Monday, February 11, 2019 - 3:56pm
HARDIN COUNTY – How to finance community improvements?
A generation ago, federal grants routinely helped.
Things have changed, and now private sources of philanthropy are stepping in to fill the space left open by government’s retrenchment.
Read the full article in the February 12...
Monday, February 11, 2019 - 3:00pm
cable cut disrupts 9-1-1
9-1-1 Wire service (Windstream residential & business, ) to Wellsburg has been disrupted by a cut cable, the Grundy County Sheriff’s office reported Monday morning.
9-1-1 Wireless service (cell phone) is working.
Wellsburg residents without a cell...
