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08/05/2026

Lone Tree School Board Special Election results 🗳️

https://thenews-ia.com/stories/lone-tree-school-board-special-election-results,202856?

Lone Tree Community School District (1 three-year seat, 1 one year seat, 3 candidates) Vida Wollrab – 302 votes (72.1%) Alex Lorack – 299 votes (71.4%) Jamie Lorack – 152 …

08/03/2026

Jeremy Meyers, assistant track coach and M-P middle school teacher, is head coach of the Golden Hawks cross country team this year ...

WELLMAN The last time Jeremy Meyers was the head coach in cross country at Mid-Prairie, in 2023, he found himself emotionally hugging Emmett Swartzentruber at the finish line following a state …

08/02/2026

Electrical fire leaves Brighton home heavily damaged

https://thenews-ia.com/stories/electrical-fire-causes-thousands-in-damages-to-brighton-home,202529?

Last Wednesday, a house fire in Brighton caused an estimated $10,000 in damage to a home at 107 S. Harrison St. The fire was reported around 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 29. While the cause was initially unknown, Brighton Fire Chief Bill Farmer said Thursday that the fire was determined to have been el...

07/31/2026

Certain residents in Wellman had their water shut off on Thursday!

https://thenews-ia.com/stories/water-line-break-causes-leak-in-wellman,202309?

With the recent work for the watermain project, certain roads were closed in Wellman on Thursday, July 30th. The roads that were closed were PARTs OF 7TH AVE N, 11TH ST, & 8TH because of the project...

07/30/2026

Lone Tree`s Nicholas Gluba who was kept off the ballot, plans to appeal

https://thenews-ia.com/stories/lone-trees-nicholas-gluba-kept-off-ballot-plans-to-appeal,202294?

After being removed from Iowa's gubernatorial ballot earlier this summer, Lone Tree Libertarian candidate Nicolas Gluba has suffered another legal setback. Last Monday, Polk County Judge Joseph Seidlin upheld the State Objection Panel's decision to remove Gluba from the November ballot...

07/28/2026

Wheres the Beef????

Cow gets loose in Kalona on Tuesday afternoon

07/28/2026

“Building new memories”

Josh Stai

https://thenews-ia.com/stories/building-new-memories,201841?

Two weeks after the water main break in Kalona flooded some homes, one resident is still working through the long process of rebuilding. Josh Stai, who lives in J Place where the water main break occurred, said his basement filled with what he was told was about seven inches of Class 3 brown water.....

07/23/2026

Sharon Center UMC warns of phishing scam Sharon Center UMC

https://thenews-ia.com/stories/sharon-center-umc-warns-of-phishing-scam,201364?

Sharon Center United Methodist Church in Kalona has announced that it recently experienced a security breach in which an unauthorized individual gained access to its church directory, which contains members' names, addresses and phone numbers...

07/20/2026

Kalona man charged with sexual abuse

https://thenews-ia.com/stories/kalona-man-charged-with-sexual-abuse,200597?

On July 8, a warrant was issued for Delywn Borntrager of Kalona. He was arrested later that day on a charge of sexual abuse...