Memoir redefines meaning of home

The Long Way Home

Tom Montgomery Fate

Ice Cube Press

ISBN 9781948509367

$19.99

The ‘Long Way Home’ is a collection of essays on what it means to find home in far-flung places. A memoir about how travel eventually brings us home, is the April featured selection for Writers and Writing. Author Tom Montgomery Fate is a native of Maquoketa and Iowa City, Iowa.

Plenty to do this summer

By Vicki Mallory

Chamber Director

The glowing tombstone

The glowing tombstone. Most everyone who grew up in Kossuth County knows exactly what I am referencing. And most of you reading this likely have a similar spooky story about a graveyard structure in your hometown.

By Rev. Al Foote - Pastor, Evangelical Free Church, Algona

He is risen indeed!

Easter Sunday is a day when Christians across the globe celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Data from the Pew Research Center indicates there are approximately 2.4 billion Christians across the globe, which accounts for nearly one-third of the global population.

By Meredith Nelson

Kossuth County Extension

At our seed exchange event this month, Betsy Barglof, a Kossuth County Master Gardener volunteer, gave a fascinating presentation on honeybees. Honeybees are essential to our food system, and yet many people are unfamiliar with the importance of these insects.

By Molly MacDonald

By Shane Goodman

By Gene Miller

150 Years Ago

In early March, Enterprise Media conducted an unscientific poll on its websites for the Spencer Daily Reporter, the Dickinson County News in Spirit Lake and the Kossuth County Advance in Algona. People were asked to select one of several options to answer the following question: What do you say about the U.S. and the situation in Ukraine?

Imagine winning a pony! Would we ever see a promotion like this today? Would it work as well? Did children beg their parents to shop at East End Grocery so they could enter to win? Does anyone remember who won the pony and whatever became of it?

From the Algona Upper Des Moines, June 29, 1954 archives....

Something to look forward to

By Rev. Walt Reemtsma - Pastor, Burt, Lone Rock Presbyterian churches

By Shane Goodman

Chickering right.... once again

I learned to type as a student at Algona High School in the 1980s. Our class instructor, Mr. Chickering, said we better all learn how to type, as most all of us would need to know how to use computers in our daily tasks. He was right.

By Douglas Burns

What separates average-to-good Iowa towns from thriving ones, former Governor Terry Branstad often said, is the presence of locally owned banks and a dedicated community newspaper.

Community newspapers are a big part of what makes Iowa, well, Iowa.

By Dar Elbert - KRHC

It is hard to believe that March is nearly over, and spring has sprung! Along with the warmer weather days ahead, we have much to celebrate at Kossuth Regional Health Center this spring.

First off, the women have spoken, and Kossuth Regional Health Center proudly accepted the Women’s Choice Award for Best Hospital Obstetrics Care and Best Emergency Care in 2023.