The Northwood-Kensett Speech Team traveled to Forest City High School on Saturday, February 28, for District Individual Speech Contest.
Five students performed across three different categories.
This week’s Northwood Anchor and Manly Signal feature a notice on Worth County’s proposed property tax levy for the coming fiscal year.
The notice provides information on taxable valuations, property tax levies and taxes to be collected. The notice shows those figures for the current fiscal year,...
Appearing in this week’s Northwood Anchor and Manly Signal are notices of proposed property tax levies for local schools.
The notices, currently required by state law, provide information on property tax levies and taxes to be collected. The notices show those figures for the current fiscal year,...
First Lutheran Church, working with others around the area, will host an event to feed children in need elsewhere in the world, a part of the Feed My Starving Children organization.
According to Feed My Starving Children, and UNICEF, at least 6,200 children die every day from hunger-related causes...
Each year, the Iowa Department of Education shares data on school faculty and administrators in Iowa, and how they compare amongst districts in salary, experience, age and other factors.
The information shows how N-K compares to other Iowa districts. The numbers come from Department of Education...
At their regular meeting on February 23, the Northwood City Council discussed a potential alternate sale of a dollar lot and received an update on the agreement for law enforcement.
At the meeting, a request was made to purchase a property that is available as a part of the City’s dollar lot...
On Tuesday, June 2, voters will choose who will represent their political parties in the November general election. That will include federal, state and county offices.
Filing for candidates for county offices begins this Monday, March 2. Up for election in Worth County this year are the offices...
A recent edition of the Northwood Anchor featured pictures of Northwood-Kensett second graders playing with a parachute in gym class. The image brought up found memories for many who took part in a similar activity, as well as the longtime gym teacher who helped introduce the parachute to PE 55...
At meetings last week, the Worth County supervisors discussed and revised the County’s plans to provide law enforcement in the county’s two largest cities.
The supervisors and sheriff Jesse Luther discussed that by Iowa code, sheriff departments are only required to respond to emergencies in cities...
Last week, a group of area snowmobile riders took part in an annual event to raise funds to support those battling cancer. This year was especially significant as it was the first since the event founder’s passing.
The annual Snowball Cancer Challenge was founded by Nick Keller.
Keller was a...
The Worth County Sheriff’s Office recently took part in compliance checks to make sure Worth County retailers were taking steps to keep tobacco, nicotine and vapor products out of the hands of young people.
The effort came as a part of the I-PLEDGE program, a partnership with the Iowa Department...
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