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Teaching kids about fire safety

Oct 17, 2023 |

Rock Rapids Fire Department visits Central Lyon Dominique Kooiker | Staff Writer The Rock Rapids Volunteer Fire Department visited with Central Lyon Elementary students last week for National Fire Prevention Month.On Thursday, Oct. 12, a group of firefighters brought a firetruck to the elementary school to show to TK students. The firemen then gave students […]

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Central Lyon to host Hot Lunch Week, Book Fair

Oct 17, 2023 |

Dominique Kooiker | Staff WriterCentral Lyon Elementary will host Hot Lunch Week and the Book Fair Monday through Friday, Oct. 23-27. On each grade’s featured day, parents, grandparents and family members are invited to eat lunch with their student before heading over to the library to browse at the Book Fair.On Monday, Oct. 23, the […]

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Granite preserves piano and family’s memory

Oct 17, 2023 |

Tristan Taylor | Staff WriterThe Village of Granite recently took in a new item to be preserved on the Threshing Bee grounds. An old piano was saved and brought to the grounds and has been set up inside the Berdahl-Rolvaag house.The piano, made in the late 1800s, originally came from the Whitwam family from South […]

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Several contested races on the ballot for November city/school elections

Oct 17, 2023 |

Jessica Jensen | Managing EditorA number of school boards and city councils will see change following the Nov. 7 city and school board elections with a number of members not seeking reelection and some seats being contested.Here is a list of which seats are being vacated and those slated to be on the ballot.Alvord:Incumbent mayor […]

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Lyon County fifth graders visit Lake Pahoja

Oct 10, 2023 | ,

Lyon County fifth graders visit Lake PahojaDominique Kooiker | Staff Writerdkooiker@ncppub.comOn Tuesday, Oct. 3, fifth-grade students from throughout Lyon County were invited to experience an outdoor classroom day at Lake Pahoja. This day was hosted by Lyon County Soil and Water Conservation District in conjunction with Lyon County Conservation.Many students appreciate the change of pace […]

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Making a difference

Oct 10, 2023 | ,

REPRESENTING LOCAL PROGRAMS AT THE STATE LEVELAubree Boender of Rock Rapids is a member of the Iowa 4-H State Council. The state council is made up of 40 high school juniors and seniors who meet a few times a year to discuss issues they see in 4-H programming and brainstorm solutions. (Photo/Dominique Kooiker)Local 4-H member […]

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Celebrating 40 years with Sanford

Oct 10, 2023 | ,

Dominique Kooiker | Staff Writerdkooiker@ncppub.comThis year, a provider at Sanford Clinic in Rock Rapids is celebrating a milestone of 40 years working with Sanford. Kathy Ranschau started as a registered nurse at Sanford Merrill Pioneer Hospital In Rock Rapids right out of college in 1973.“The science part of the medical field drew me to it […]

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StoryWalk pops up in Rock Rapids

Oct 10, 2023 |

Dominique Kooiker | Staff Writer On Monday, Oct. 2, the Lyon County Extension Office hosted a StoryWalk in the green space north of Sunshine Foods in Rock Rapids. The StoryWalk featured the book “Let’s Pop, Pop, Popcorn!” written by Bynthia Schumerth and illustrated by Mary Reaves Uhles.Each station along the StoryWalk path featured a page […]

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Performing text surgery

Oct 10, 2023 |

Central Lyon third graders explore text features Dominique Kooiker | Staff Writer dkooiker@ncppub.comOn Sept. 25, Central Lyon third grade students performed surgery in their classrooms — not on real people, of course, but on informational texts.“Each year in social studies, we start out with a unit on text features. The goal is to explain all […]

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Otter Valley Players to present dinner theater

Oct 10, 2023 |

Dominique Kooiker | Staff WriterOn the evenings of Nov. 1, 2, 3 and 4, the Otter Valley Dinner Theater will present “For Better or Wurst” by Craig Sodaro at the Otter Valley Country Club. The meal will be served at 5:30 p.m. each night.In this comedy, Nick Noir, ace private eye, has just bought wedding […]

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