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The Camp Algona POW Museum is doing research on farms in the local area that might have hosted German POW’s while the camp was in operation. In addition, if there are any local businesses that used ...
The Kossuth County Farmers Market is a great place for finding fresh local food and homemade treats, but it’s also a hot spot for handmade crafts and specialty items.
State funding, local control and school accountability are important legislative issues facing Algona schools in 2025-26, local officials say. The Algona Community School District set those as its ...
The new town grew quickly and touted many businesses: a drug store, an implement store, a locker, hardware store, a hotel, a creamery, a blacksmith shop, and a post office. A bank, the “People’s ...
Betsy Bekcer, ag educator at Algona High School, recently attended a Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education professional development institute at Greeley West High School in Greeley, Colorado ...
Union Slough National Wildlife Refuge is soliciting sealed bids (per harvested ton) for hay harvest on three tracts of land to be harvested in August 2025. The tracts are located in Kossuth County as ...
DES MOINES—A total of five area softball players were recently selected to the all-district teams in their respective class by the Iowa Girls Softball Coaches Association. Hanna Merron of Bishop ...
An Algona resident was recently the target of an online scam that seemed so real that she fell for it at first despite the uneasy feeling she had. She was on the internet when a new pop-up window ...