St. Edmond Catholic Schools will hold a retirement open house for four members of the faculty on Wednesday. The event will take place from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the St. Edmond library with Rhonda Guldenpfennig, Adolph Kochendorfer, Michelle Rogers and Kim Stuhrenberg being honored.
A plan to convert a long stretch of North 15th Street into a three lane road will be the subject of a public information meeting Tuesday. The meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 819 First Ave. S. The proposed project would include 15th Street between First Avenue North and 20th Avenue North. That section is now a four-lane road, with two lanes of traffic going in each direction. The proposal would change that section of road to three lanes. If completed, the street would have one northbound lane, one southbound lane and a center lane for vehicles turning ...
SAC CITY — An investigation is underway in Sac County following a May 4 shooting. According to Chief Deputy Katie Stange, the Sac County Sheriff’s Office and Sac County Emergency Medical Service were dispatched to the area of U.S. Highway 71 and 330th Street on May 4 at 6:22 a.m. Once on scene, they discovered an injured subject with a gunshot wound. One individual has been taken into custody in connection with the shooting, according to the Sheriff’s Office. According to Stange, the investigation is ongoing, and additional details will be released at a later date.
FONDA — Fonda Specialty Care is celebrating a deficiency free state survey and recognizing its team members for their commitment to quality care. A deficiency free survey means state surveyors found zero deficiencies during their annual inspection and confirmed that Fonda Specialty Care is meeting or exceeding all state and federal requirements in the areas of resident care, services, and environment. This designation is rare and comes after a rigorous process where state agencies conduct unannounced surveys, often over the course of several days, to observe resident care, check all ...
FONDA — A man has been charged with firing a gun in Fonda, according to the Pocahontas County Sheriff’s Office. No one was injured in the incident. According to the Sheriff’s Office, at 9:59 p.m. Sunday 911 dispatchers received a report of a gunshot and a woman screaming in the area of Franklin and Fourth streets in Fonda. On Friday, Dennis Kelly, 68, of Fonda, was charged with reckless use of a firearm and disorderly conduct, the Sheriff’s Office reported. In criminal complaints filed against him, deputies wrote that Kelly was intoxicated when he got a gun out of his gun ...
THOR — High winds and dusty conditions Thursday afternoon created areas of zero visibility which authorities say contributed to a head-on collision near Thor. According to the Iowa State Patrol, William L. Dencklau, of Dakota City, was southbound on Utah Avenue in a 2016 GMC Sierra pickup truck when he crossed the center line and collided with a northbound 2017 Chevrolet Impala driven by Rosemary Baker, of Humboldt. According to troopers, the visibility for both drivers was clouded due to the blowing dirt throughout the county. Baker was transported to the Humboldt County ...