Phil Monson
For the past 35 years, Gilmore City has been home for Ron and Deb Bollmeyer.
That’s why last week’s Gilmore City-Bradgate School Board meeting was a little bit emotional when the board accepted the resignation and early retirement application for the pair of educators, effective at the end of the current school year.
Ron...
Humboldt's boys ended their basketball season Friday night (Feb. 22) in a 68-52 loss to the Clear Lake Lions in a Class 3A District final in the Algona gym.
The Wildcats, who bow out with a 16-7 overall record, were led in scoring by senior guard Michael Orness with 22 points. Senior center Bryan Larson was next with 10. Clear Lake, 15-7...
Kyle Kluender of Humboldt has been appointed to the Humboldt Community School District Board of Directors.
The appointment of Kluender took place in a special meeting of the board on Monday morning (Feb. 18). He was later administered the Oath of Office at the board’s regular monthly meeting Monday night.
Kluender fills...
DES MOINES - Nikko Wheeler and Reed Dreyer came away with sixth-place medals while Dylan Hendricks placed eighth in Saturday's consolation finals of the Class 2A State Wrestling Tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. All three are juniors for the Wildcats, who sent five wrestlers down to state two days earlier.
Wheeler lost two...
One of the big topics on the agenda of the LuVerne Board of Education last week was discussing public input from the Jan. 31 meeting in Corwith, where the LuVerne and Corwith-Wesley boards presented information and answered questions on their plans to enter into a whole-grade sharing agreement with Algona or West Hancock in 2014....

