Algona Comunity School Board members unanimously approved a settlement agreement with past elementary principal and claimant Stacy Mueller on Monday, Feb. 11.
Mueller's position was eliminated following a round of budget cuts i the 2017-18 school year. Mueller alledged the board's decision was discriminatory ....
Read the whole story in the Feb. 14 Advance.

The superintendent search has been narrowed down to three candidates.
On Feb. 7, the Algona Commuity School Board and search consultant firm Grundmeyer Leader Search met in closed session to electronically screen eight simifinalists. The board spent 25 minutes with each candidate, asking questions about skills, qualifications and experiences.
Read the whole story in the Feb. 14 Advance.

A retired KOFAB (now Precision Incorporated) employee who lives in Britt has nothing but good things to say about the Kossuth Regional Health Center population health program.
"The program and Dr. Michael Lampe saved my life," said Neil Gabrielsen.
Read the whole story in the Feb. 14 Kossuth County Advance.

Algona received the Healthy Hometown Community award from the Healthiest State Initiative (HSI) Feb. 7 in Des Moines. The annual award were presented at Hy-Vee's Ron Pearson Center. HSI is a nonprofit organization with the goal to make Iowa the healthiest state in the nation.
Read all about it in the Feb. 14 Kossuth County Advance.

A young Algona woman's first trip out of the country included a 14-hour flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, and provided a life-changing view of the world.
Alexis Berte, 19, the daughter of Pat and Nancy Berte, participated in the International Leadership Seminar for state FFA officers, a 12-day trip that consisted of agricultural and cultural experiences.
Read the whole story in the Feb. 14 Advance.

Recently, the church family was laughing (sometimes crying) as we came together to play some old-fashioned games. The usual games were Monopoly, Uno, Battleship, etc. The old, familiar games did not disappoint in their appeal .
I would highly recommend the game Telestrations. In short, people tale turns drawing a picture ....
Read the whole column in the Feb. 14 Advance.

The Iowa Poultry Association announced Jan. 18 the names of participants in its 2019 Emerging Leader program. Among them was Colleen Schulte with the Center Fresh Group office in Corwith. The leadership program ... aims to offer "a blend of industry networking and educational events targeted specifically to the emerging leader group."
Read the full story in the Feb. 14 Kossuth County Advance.

The teachers and administrators of Bertha Godfrey and Bryant elementary schools are challenging students to read more in the next three weeks.
Brad Sudol, principal at Bryant and Bertha Godfrey, said the main goal of the February reading challenge is to promote literacy and have fun with reading .... The theme is camping.
Read the whole story in the Feb. 14 Kossuth County Advance.

As soon as April those living in Bancroft or northern Kossuth County could be purchasing prescription drugs from Bancroft Apothecary.
Read the full story in the Feb. 7 Kossuth County Advance.

The extremely cold conditions that Algona experienced last week increased activity for some businesses.
Justin Thilges, owner of Thilges Auto Body, said his business received more calls during the first couple of cold snaps in weather.
Read the whole story in the Feb. 7 Advance.

Algona loves bacon. That was made clear Saturday night.
The Algona Area Chamber of Commerce sold out its tickets for the third annual Achin' for Bacon event at the Algona VFW on Feb. 2.

Despite no action on a letter alleging a conflict of interest with Supervisor Roger Tjarks on the wind energy conversion system, Supervisor Kyle Stecker would like the wind ordinance to be discussed further because of constituent concerns.
After a closed session during the Feb. 5 meeting, Chair Jack Plathe said, "Per our attorney's explanation, he informs us there is no validity to the Phil Kaplan letter and that no further action was required on it."

Algona School Board members approved an early retirement option for qualified teachers to use this school year.
The action came during a special session of the board Thursday, Jan. 31.
Read the whole story in the Feb. 7 Kossuth County Advance.

Catholic Schools week was all about celebrating. Jan. 28-Feb. 1 Bishop Garrigan and Seton Elementary celebrated the week. Three of the five days were cancelled because of the weather, but the students still had fun. Some of the activites were bowling, ice fishing, snowshoeing and playing on the big inflatables.
Get all the details in the Feb. 7 Kossuth County Advance.

Good Samaritan Society - Algona celebrates the merger with Sanford Health with an ice cream social for staff, residents and others at the Algona facilty.