KRHC focuses on family care

By Dar Elbert

KRHC

Celebrating National Doctor’s Day in March

Don’t you lose my number

Do you know your cell phone number? How about your family members’ numbers? Or your neighbors’ or friends’ or coworkers’? And I am not asking if you have them in your contacts. The question is, do you have their numbers memorized?

I love to tell the story

By Rev. John Heille

Lead Pastor for Good Hope Immanuel & St. John's Lutheran Churches

There’s a great old hymn that I catch myself humming and singing at surprising times, I Love to Tell the Story.  The words are so very familiar to me—I’ve been singing them for decades now.

From the Algona Upper Des Moines Newspaper from July 1, 1988. Bob Laing, right, records scores posted by shooters at a recent trap shoot at the Izaak Walton League facility north of Algona. From left are Bill Holtz of Algona, Daryl Schmidt, and Fred Erickson, both of Lone Rock.

Incubator chicks arriving at the post office

150 Years Ago

Are you ready for tricks, pranks and fools

With April Fool’s Day less than a month away, now is the time to start thinking about some good pranks. After all, the best ones take proper planning, and many of the top pranks are devised by teenage boys — and grown men who act like teenage boys — as you will read below.

Only as strong as our community

By Joe Carter

ACSD Superintendent

We are halfway through the second semester of the 2023-2024 school year in the Algona Community School District, and it has been an incredible year! Our staff and students continue to choose to Rise to the Occasion and Reach for the Future every day.

Landowners demand all Summit dockets be consolidated and considered as a whole.

I find it truly ironic that some of our elected representatives are railing against the proposed $8 cap on the current obscenely high overdraft fees as government overreach - - yet, some of these same elected officials support taking away an individual’s Reproductive Freedom.

Respectfully submitted,

Marilyn Deal, Algona

Open letter to Representative Henry Stone (and all area Legislators)

I am writing in response to Rep. Stone’s Week 8 newsletter. It is extremely concerning that Republicans find it necessary to continue attacks on public schools by insinuating that Iowa’s dedicated social studies educators are not doing their best for our young people and our country.

The things that pull us down

By: Rebekah Fischer - Algona Faith

More than 280 fifth graders from all over Kossuth County were guests of the Kossuth Shrine Club at the 42nd annual Abu Bekr Shrine Circus on Saturday, April 9, 1992 at the Sioux City Municipal Auditorium. The ever-popular trip to the circus is sponsored annually by the Shrine Club.

Kyle Mueller was one of many youngsters who got a ride on the elephant.

Original Sins a great crime thriller

By Michael Tidemann

Original Sins

Erin Young

Flatiron Books

ISBN 9781250799425

$38.99

Des Moines, Iowa, is the setting for Original Sins, a crime thriller by Erin Young, author of The Fields. Young lives in Brighton, England, and this is her second book. Both books are based in Iowa.

By Maureen Elbert

KPACEDC

Business survey – Kossuth/Palo Alto County EDC

Kossuth/Palo Alto County Economic Development Corporation has completed their annual Business Survey. Our survey shows impressive results for Kossuth and Palo Alto Counties. The 158 businesses who participated were asked to complete the survey using an internet site called “Survey Monkey.”

Painless dentists are coming to Algona

150 Years Ago

The select lands owned by the Jackson Land Company and Messrs. Paton & Agnew Trustees, of the city of New York, will be offered for sale on easy terms. The coming spring with Land Office at Algona in charge of Wm. H. Ingham.

125 Years Ago