Bob McLaughlin, Lake Mills, and his grandson, Owen, celebrated St. Patrick’s Day in style, putting on their kilts and tam-o-shanters for the occasion. Owen is the three-month-old son of Curran and Skye McLaughlin, Garner.
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Emma Maser is the LMCS February Artist of the Month. Check out the Lake Mills Art Department website to see her fantastic artwork. “Emma has really taken an interest in painting and I’ve seen her grow this year as an artist and in her self-confidence. I’m very proud of this girl and her lovely...
The Lake Mills Girl Scouts have been busy picking up their boxes of cookies, getting ready to sell. Four hundred and twenty-seven cases arrived last week and over 50 area Girl Scouts are out and about selling the different varieties of cookies: Thin Mints, Thanks-A-Lots, Gluten-Free Trios,...
Early one January morning in 1887 a farmer from Tabor, Iowa, hitched his team of horses to a sled and headed out to get some wood about four miles from home. By the time he returned at the end of a long day, one of his horses was suffering from a serious case of colic.
Horses were a valuable...
This group of preschool dancers wowed the crowd at the boys’ basketball game Friday evening, with their performance to a song meant for going off to dreamland.
“Five years ago I was one of a half dozen farmers in this neighborhood who built silos. Now there are as many put up each year, which I consider good evidence that the silo is practical and has come to stay,” an Iowa farmer remarked in 1908.
Some considered silos indispensable to profitable...
American Legion Otto Chose Post #235 recently received an award for surpassing their membership quota—105 percent. Pictured above with the award plaque are Legion members, Paul Sorenson and Dave Anderson. If you have served federal active duty in the United States Armed Forces during any of the war...
The final performance of the drumline season is a show-down between “Team Rylee” (pictured on the left) and “Team Melina” (pictured right), Friday, Feb. 10, during half-time of the boys varsity basketball game. Melina Tyson states that “This battle will be fun and energetic, because my drumline is...
by STEPH STEVENS
I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since I’ve started here at the library. Time sure does fly when you’re having fun. Let me tell you it’s been fun learning new responsibilities and meeting so many great people. If you haven’t stopped in to say hello, please do. My “door” is...
Civic leaders in Iowa in 1869 were proud of their state. It offered some of the most fertile soils and flourishing towns and cities. Railroads snaked across the landscape north and south and east and west. It was believed there were inexhaustible amounts of coal beneath the earth’s surface in Iowa...
Scientists estimated the prehistoric creature was probably 14 feet high as it stood upright on the Iowa landscape near Welton. When it roamed the Iowa countryside was an unsolved mystery. The bones of the mammoth animal were unearthed in 1874 by a farmer as he walked near the track of the Chicago,...
