ALGONA—A local COVID-19 booster vaccine clinic planned for the end of September has been canceled due to recommendations issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Click on the pdf link below to see the press release.

ALGONA—Kossuth County would remain in a revised Fourth Congressional District under a proposed reapportionment map now under consideration by the Iowa Legislature. The new Fourth District would include 44 of Iowa's 99 counties and represent about a quarter of the population. It would stretch from the southwest corner of the state to some counties in northeast Iowa.

ALGONA—Proposed new Iowa Senate district lines cut Kossuth County in half, placing Algona with Mason City and other parts of the county with the Iowa Great Lakes region. People can go to https://www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/publicHearings to sign up to make comments at a public hearing on the proposal. There are photos of the two proposed Senate districts that would involve Kossuth County.

ALGONA—Proposed new Iowa House of Representative district lines once again cut Kossuth County in half. People can go to https://www.legis.iowa.gov/committees/publicHearings to sign up to make comments at a public hearing on the proposal. There are photos of the two proposed House districts that would involve Kossuth County. Hover on the photo and use the arrows to move from one to the other.

SIOUX CITY—The Catholic schools in the Diocese of Sioux City will not be instituting mask mandates at this time, due to the current legal proceedings in Iowa.
Patty Lansink, superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Diocese of Sioux City, noted the diocesan attorney verified that the temporary restraining order lifting the ban on mask mandates did not apply to the 16 Catholic school systems in the diocese.

ALGONA—The board of supervisors unanimously approved a resolution to declare Kossuth County to be a Second Amendment sanctuary county and started the process on a courthouse roof replacement project at its regular board meeting Tuesday morning, Sept. 14. 
Kossuth County joined 11 other Iowa counties which have taken action on a sanctuary county declaration for gun rights. 
 
See the full report in the Sept. 16 Advance.
 
 

ALGONA—The country of Haiti has not had time to recover from one tragedy when it gets hit with another. On Aug. 14, Haiti experienced a 7.2 earthquake followed by tropical depression Grace. At least 2,189 people were killed, more than 12,000 injured and 50,000 homes destroyed in the quake. This followed the assassination of Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse in June, a hurricane five years ago and an earthquake 10 years ago.

ALGONA—A newspaper. A family. A community. Local residents will get a chance to see in Algona one of a few Iowa premieres of “Storm Lake,” an Iowa film produced and directed by Buffalo Center native Jerry Risius and award-winning producer Beth Levison. It’s the story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen and his family’s fight to unite and inform their Iowa farming community through their biweekly newspaper, The Storm Lake Times. 

Check out the Sept. 16 Advance for a photo spread on Public Safety Night Out in Algona. 

ALGONA—The Algona Community School District Board of Education reviewed enrollment and discussed this year’s COVID-19 policies and current status, the upcoming school board election, how to attract long term substitute teachers and more during its meet Monday, night, Sept. 13.
Enrollment numbers have increased from last year, according to information presented by Superintendent Joe Carter. 

BANCROFT—Pastor Jim Dewar from the First Baptist Church in Bancroft, gave a fitting tribute to the emergency responders at the remembrance ceremony in Bancroft on Saturday, Sept. 11, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States.
 
See the full story - and a report on Algona's remembrance - in the Sept. 16 Advance.

ALGONA—With September designated as National Yoga Month by the Department of Health and Human Services, it is a perfect time for the community to give yoga a try. 
The designation of yoga month is made to educate about health benefits of yoga and to inspire a healthy lifestyle. 
 
See the Sept. 16 Advance for the full story with three local yoga instructors.

ALGONA—According to the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, each day about 33 children are injured in an agriculture-related incident, and about every three days, a child dies in an agriculture related incident. For more than 20 years, Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach in Kossuth County has teamed up with local business and organizations to host farm safety days to help educate local school children on the importance of being safe.

Check out the two-page spread on AHS Homecoming in the Sept. 16 Kossuth County Advance. Meet the Homecoming royalty candidates and read a preview of the big home game against North Polk.