Northwood-Kensett’s class of 2022 graduated this past Sunday. During the commencement ceremony, scholarships and scholarly recognitions were announced for the 43 members of the class.
Last week the Worth County supervisors considered a wind development agreement, and recent action with no public awareness led to a stumbling block.
On the agenda for the supervisors meeting was a Worthwhile Wind Development agreement. It was the first time such an agreement had been on a regular...
The Worth County Supervisors recently continued with the process that would allow them to establish tax funding for emergency medical services (EMS).
At their meeting on May 9, the supervisors passed an initial reading of a resolution that would make EMS an official county service, which the...
Northwood-Kensett’s class of 2022 graduated this past Sunday. During the commencement ceremony, scholarships and scholarly recognitions were announced for the 43 members of the class.
This year’s graduating class received $465,765.19 for their first year of college and $649,765.19 in scholarships...
Absentee voting began today for the Tuesday, June 7, primary election. There are no contested races at the county level and only one at the state level to represent Worth County as Iowa Representative for the newly formed District 60.
The district was redrawn after the 2020 census. Two candidates...
Last week, grants for downtown housing projects were announced. That included two grants in Worth County communities.
Iowa Governor Reynolds announced a total of nearly $20 million in investments to support downtown housing projects in 61 communities, which will create 466 new homes for Iowans....
At a recent meeting of the Worth County Board of Supervisors, county engineer Rich Brumm presented documents to be submitted to the Iowa Department of Transportation, outlining potential road and bridge projects, as well as spending in the coming fiscal year.
Potential projects were outlined in...
Heavy rains and strong storms have left flooding damage across the county. That includes several areas where corn stalks were washed from fields and deposited in county ditches. How to clean up those areas was recently the focus of discussion with the Worth County supervisors.
At the May 2 meeting...
This Monday, May 16, the Worth County supervisors will have an initial public hearing as they consider the prospect of expanding the zoning ordinance to apply countywide.
The zoning expansion was first considered after the supervisors were advised that a proposed ordinance regulating wind turbines...
Over the course of the month of April, the number of new cases of COVID-19 in Worth County remained unchanged initially, before cases began to increase. At the same time, one additional Worth resident was lost to the virus.
The official state data showed that, to start with, new COVID numbers...
Recently, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a proclamation relating to the weight limits and hours of service requirements for the transportation of crop inputs for planting season.
“Unprecedented economic and foreign policy challenges have disrupted the food supply chain and worsened the...
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