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COVID-19 surge continues in Iowa and Woodbury County, masks for SCCSD students?, flu deaths in Nebraska, Iowa Governor recovers from illness, DNR investigates wastewater spill in Storm Lake, and more
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There's no fort there anymore. Unlike Laramie or Robinson or Scott or Wingate, where you can still almost hear the history, Ft. Randall has only a…
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Like just about every other town from sea to shining sea, Hennesey, Oklahoma, will celebrate its own pioneer days this summer--parades and burgers, gospel…
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He was just 23 years old when, in 1957, he won the MVP award. I was in third grade, and hard as it might be to believe, I don't think I thought of him as…
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When James Fennimore Cooper complained about the novel he was reading, his wife told him to put up or shut up, to write a better one himself. That tiff…
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Inspiration can strike from anywhere. Reading the obits one day, Kenneth Jones came across the story of Emily Wheelock Reed, a librarian who lived and…
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This Sunday, the Blue Cafe will host author Jordan Flaherty for a discussion of his book No More Heroes, a critique of the savior mentality and helping…
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There's very little to see now but row after row after row of foundations, a procession of rectangles angling down a long slope toward where there once…
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Today, I am recommending Another Brooklyn, a new adult novel by Jacqueline Woodson. Woodson has written more than two dozen award-winning books for young…