Belmond Independent

12/27/2025

Our last issue of 2025 is on newsstands and in mailboxes!

🧑🏽‍🩰 Dance With Me Studio celebrates its 30th anniversary

👨‍🍳 "Still Inn Good Taste" cookbook makes a splash for the Belmond Pool Fund

🎓 Belmond-Klemme's Scholarship Foundation-II receives generous donations

* Belmond City Council awards contracts on two major upcoming projects

* Volunteers braved the cold to make Wreaths Across America Day a success

🎁 A local church played a key role in regional Operation Christmas Child efforts

🚶🏽 Dave & Diane Lieberknecht donate to Upscale the Trail Project

Plus B-K sports, Cook of the Week, crossword puzzle, Way Back When, and more!

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➡️ Copies of The Belmond Independent are sold at Bloemke Pharmacy, Casey's, Yesway, True Value, and Fareway.

12/22/2025

Re-issued cookbook makes a splash: ‘Still Inn Good Taste’ raises funds for pool project

"Still Inn Good Taste" has raised $7,500 for Belmond’s new pool, thanks to a fundraising effort led by former Klemme House Bed and Breakfast owner Connie Mattison.

Get all the details in our upcoming Dec. 26 issue. Online subscribers can access the article now, at the link below.

https://www.belmondnews.com/news/re-issued-cookbook-makes-a-splash-still-inn-good-taste-raises-funds-for-pool-project/article_827b2937-ffc1-441e-a3c8-704a27a8c0d8.html

12/21/2025

We will be closed on Wednesday, December 24 and Thursday, December 25 for the holidays. We will also be closed on Thursday, January 1.

Stop by the library before the 24th to stock up on all of your favorites before the holiday. Did you know we have puzzles, board games and activity kits for all ages? They are a great way to keep yourself or the family entertained during the holiday! 🎄🎲🧩📚

12/20/2025

Twice a month, Belmond's Charity Sew Day Volunteers get together and work on special projects.

Find out more about their recent endeavor — making Christmas stockings for veterans at the VA Hospital in Des Moines — in our Dec. 19 issue.

Digital subscribers can access the article at the link below.

Twice a month, Belmond’s Charity Sew Day Volunteers meet up to work on projects at the McBurney Apartments. Since August, their work room there has looked “like Santa’s workshop, with

12/19/2025

Our Dec. 19 issue is on newsstands and in mailboxes. This is our Christmas issue, and it's packed with holiday cheer.

🎅🏼 In keeping with annual tradition, we have Letters to Santa from Belmond-Klemme students.

🎄Find out who's spreading Christmas cheer, from the Rehabilitation Center of Belmond to the Charity Sew Day volunteers.

📅 Plan your holiday weekend with our Community Calendar.

🎁 Hear from local Ed Johnson about what Christmas was like in the 1940s.

🏀 Get coverage of Bronco basketball games.

Plus, student news in The Blueprint and your favorite columns like News from North Iowa, Way Back When, Cook of the Week, Tidbits of History, and more!

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12/18/2025

🚨 Game Update 🚨
Tonight’s JH Boys Basketball game at Bishop has been postponed.
📅 Make-up date: TBD

12/18/2025

Updated Dec. 19, 2025

Dawn Marie Didio, 50, of Belmond, has been found guilty of Public Intoxication, after being arrested at Jacobson Elementary School on Dec. 12, 2025.

Read the full article at the link below, and in our upcoming Jan. 2 issue.

On Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, Dawn Marie Didio, a staff member working at Jacobson Elementary, was arrested for Public Intoxication.

12/17/2025

12/17/2025

There are only two days left for kids to complete the Gingerbread Man Scavenger Hunt and earn some prizes and a chance to win one of these fun Christmas book & plushie sets generously donated by Kim Berhow.

The winners will be drawn on Friday (19th) so be sure to stop in soon to find the gingerbread men that have run loose in the library!

12/15/2025

Our Dec. 12 issue is on newsstands and in mailboxes. Another great issue, packed with local content:

🎅 We visited the Santa House, a 30+ year Belmond tradition.

🪙 In Part two of our "Penny mania" series, we found out if there is a penny shortage, at least locally.

🦌 We have several articles that are of special interest to deer hunters, including what Wright County hunters need to know about Chronic Wasting Disease, and where to donate venison and hides.

Plus, an update on the Foster and Evelyn Barkema Trust and your weekly favorites like Way Back When, Cook of the Week, and News from North Iowa.

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12/13/2025

12/13/2025

Now this is an interesting photo. We believe they are doing Christmas drawings. Check out the cars.