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Monday, October 15, 2018 - 9:43am
ELDORA – The committee for the Eldora Veterans Memorial will delay the project opening from Veterans Day this fall to Memorial Day next spring.
There are two major reasons, organizers say.(Read it all in the Tuesday Ledger)
Monday, October 15, 2018 - 9:41am
ELDORA – Thank the Davison family for this story of home improving.
If you were out to the Hardin County Farm Museum Harvest Festival last weekend and went upstairs in the barn, you found a treasure trove of old stuff.
And one heirloom had to do with building your dream house.
Now,...
Monday, October 15, 2018 - 9:39am
Halloween keeps on giving. Ask the folks in Barry Scott’s industrial arts classes out at the South Hardin High School.
Now on hand for use in instructions is a brand new aluminum siding brake/fabricator donated by the Eldora Rotary. It is courtesy of the organization’s annual...
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 12:23pm
HARDIN COUNTY – There is good news and bad news about the 2018 harvest.
The good news is that yields so far have been winners.
In early October – around Hardin County – reports are routinely coming in of corn at 200 and more bushel per acre. Beans at 55.
The bad...
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 12:22pm
By: Robert Maharry
Staff writer
ELDORA- If voters are seeking clear contrasts in their candidates for the board of supervisors this fall, they won’t have to look hard to find them. The race, which pits Republican incumbents Lance Granzow and Renee McClellan against Democratic upstart...
Monday, October 8, 2018 - 11:50am
HARDIN COUNTY – Maybe it’s something about Steamboat Rock.
Inspiration in the air?
Something there is revealing the poet in people. (Read it all in the Tuesday Ledger)
Monday, October 8, 2018 - 11:49am
ELDORA – This is a week across the country where communities, big and small, recognize the work of their local fire departments. Here in Eldora it also calls up recollections of the biggest fire ever visited upon the town.(Read it all in the Tuesday Ledger)
Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 8:22am
HARDIN COUNTY – Three Hardin County community betterment projects will be vying for matching funds from the Barlow Family Foundation Community Challenge in a few weeks. (Read it all in the Friday Index)
Thursday, September 27, 2018 - 8:21am
ELDORA – Do you have an Old Master’s canvass hanging in the attic, or something from great-grandma that comes with a great story?
Well, you are in luck.
Mark Moran is bringing his Wisconsin-based “Antiques Road Show” to the Eldora Library on October 30.(Read it all in...
Monday, September 24, 2018 - 11:29am
UNION- It’s been a long, strange trip for Jamie Stoner. These days, he’s back in Iowa not far from where it all started, but this time, there’s a twist: he brought a big piece of Hawaii home with him.
Stoner, a Grundy Center native and 1991 GCHS graduate who spent six...
Monday, September 24, 2018 - 11:28am
AREA – Anais Hiedra of Hampton has spent the summer making acquaintances with Hardin County’s and Franklin County’s diverse Catholic communities.
And now the new Hispanic ministry outreach coordinator based in Hampton is helping promote a September 30 event in...
Monday, September 24, 2018 - 11:27am
Two (Farmers) and a Friend, Brian Hagedon, John Farmer and Roger Ziesman entertained for the Hardin County Historical Society annual fall ice cream social, this year like they have the last few years, backed by members of the Hardin County Cruisers, vintage car enthusiasts. (Thanks to Deb...
