October 2024

By APRIL KELLEY
There’s a new (deputy) sheriff in town. Sheriff Dean Kruger requested the Supervisors approve the hiring of David Jones who is currently a Humboldt Police Officer. Jones will fill the position left vacant after Deputy Michael Vinsand transitioned into the School Resource Deputy position.

The Supervisors voted four to one to approve the hire at the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors meeting on Monday, Oct. 28. The lone dissenter, Supervisor Sandy Loney, told Sheriff Kruger and Officer Jones that she does not have any doubts about Jones being a good deputy.

She stated her concerns are that by hiring Jones as a deputy, it leaves the Humboldt Police Department down yet another officer at a time when the department is already understaffed.

The Humboldt Wildcat volleyball team fell short in a Class 3A Region 2 championship match in Hull on Tuesday night, Oct. 29, as the No. 2 ranked and defending state champion Western Christian Wolpack blanked Humboldt by scores of 25-20, 25-16 and 25-18.

Humboldt bows out at 23-10 overall. The Wolfpack will take a 31-13 record into next week’s state tournament in Coralville.

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It has pleased Almighty God to call to Himself in heaven the soul of Fred R. Arndt, who died on Tuesday night, Oct 22, 2024 at Independence Village Long Term Care in Waukee, at the age of 72.
Fred Richard Arndt was born on May 28, 1952, to Fred J. and Wilma (Carlson) Arndt at Lake City. He was fifth in several generations of “Fred Arndts”- a title he claimed throughout his life. On Aug. 11, 1952, he was baptized into the Christian faith at Zion Lutheran Church, Gowrie, by Pastor J Henry Bergren with Richard Carlson and Alice Koessel serving as his sponsors. He professed his faith through the Rite of Confirmation on April 3, 1966 before Pastor Larry Kudart.