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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As the staging area for the over 600 participants at last weekend’s District Large Group Speech competition held at LMCS, the gymnasium saw a lot of traffic, rehearsals, pictures and excitement throughout the day, as groups prepared for, and wound down after, their performances, and then watched...
The Logan Loganeers 4-H club held a t-shirt pillow-making workshop at their January meeting. Members participating are pictured above, front row (L-R): Justin Rygh, Aaron Kelly, Jordan Kelly and Abbey Bray. Back row: Emily Bray, Allison Rygh, Lindy Brekken, Sonja Rygh, Lewis Rygh, and Carson Rygh.
“Everybody came from somewhere, as nobody was born and raised here,” John F. Fish said in 1914 when the elderly Wapello County pioneer sat down to visit with a local newspaper reporter.
John was reminiscing about Iowa in the 1830s—before statehood. It was a time when settlers from the eastern part...
Betsy Byars, Ari Stensrud and Katie Grothe, joined a number of other young Pom Pup cheerleaders-to-be, as they cheered on the Bulldogs in their win over Belmond-Klemme last Friday night.
The seventh/eighth grade band students, pictured above, and the sixth grade band students, pictured left earned the top award, a Division I, at the Lake Mills Recital held Dec. 20. Dave Rutt, from Waldorf University, and Jared Eastvold, the music director at Glenville-Emmons Schools, were the...
Four LMCS vocalists recently took part in the 70th Annual Iowa All-State Music Festival. The students were members of three separate Opus choirs under the direction of accomplished vocal music educators from Iowa and Michigan. Each choir represented the top one percent of vocalists from around the...
While he always loved art, it was not until high school, that Artist of the Month, Cashlin Barbour, realized the full potential of his abilities.
“I have always loved art, but I really started putting a lot of effort in when I saw how far an idea could go,” he recalled.
His favorite style of art...
“Left Canton Iowa 4 o’clock AM April 24th, 1864. Arrived at DesMoin City at 10 PM Monday May 9th.”
“Camped by a pond near an encampment with others.”
“Stampede of horses at night.”
The diaries of John and Margaret Tomlinson recount the couple’s trek by wagon from Canton, Iowa, to the gold mines...
“I would rather be a chambermaid in a livery stable than a doorkeeper in a church,” Julia Maria Teeple of Baldwin, Iowa, explained when asked about her unusual profession as a livery manager in 1894.
At the age of 7 Julia worked in the fields of her family’s farm. She preferred outdoor work to...
