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Lone Rock Fun Day events on Sat., Aug. 28 included garage sales, a free throw event, bingo, a meal and street dance. Inclement weather forced the street dance to end a half hour earlier than planned...
ALGONA—A new face can be found at the Iowa State University (ISU) Extension and Outreach Kossuth County office. Gentry Sorenson, ISU Extension and Outreach Field Agronomist, began his role on July 6...
KOSSUTH COUNTY—From two to seven inches of rain was reported across Kossuth County in the week ending Sunday. For some crops, it was too late to make much of an impact, but in terms of replenishing...
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty (koe-mir...
ALGONA—The Algona City Council selected Brad Hoover to fill a vacancy and serve as an at-large council member.
The action came at Monday evening’s regular meeting.
Among other items, the council...
ALGONA—Ten employees at Good Samaritan Society-Algona staged a planned walk-out to protest a mandate that they become vaccinated against COVID-19 or be fired this fall.
The noon-hour protest was in...
KOSSUTH COUNTY—Kossuth County’s population fell 4.6 percent from 2010 to 2020, according to new county and city population figures from the decennial U.S. Census and released by the State Library of...
ALGONA—Kossuth County on Tuesday afternoon began the process of trying to figure out what to do with $2.8 million in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan.
The board of supervisors held a...
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KOSSUTH COUNTY—One death and 25 new COVID-19 cases were reported in Kossuth County last week, according to statistics on the...
ALGONA— This has been an exciting summer for Algona band students so far and it doesn’t look like the fun is ending anytime soon.
The students received top-notch instruction at band camp this year...