by admin | May 31, 2001 | Sports
Despite steady rain there were several outstanding rounds at the final day of the girls state golf meet at the Jester Park course near Granger. Christi Athas of Eldora-New Providence had the lowest score of the tournament in earning medallist honors in class 1A. Athas...
by admin | May 31, 2001 | Sports
After claiming the class 3A state title last year the Fort Madison baseball team opened the season top ranked and is 6-2 in the early going. Coach Dick Burch likes the potential of this team despite losing several members of the pitching staff from the title team....
by admin | May 31, 2001 | Business
Customers of Interstate Power Company are getting good news today. Alliant’s Karmen Wilhelm says beginning June 1st, customer bills will be lower.Wilhelm says a temporary rate hike has ended, lowering the bills. The cost-recovery increase had been granted for...
by admin | May 31, 2001 | Recreation / Entertainment
There are more than just “76 Trombones” in Mason City for tonight’s start of the North Iowa Band Festival. The 63rd annual fest is gathering 25 community and high school bands, 24 of them from Iowa and one from Minnesota. Festival director Vance...
by admin | May 31, 2001 | Crime & Courts
A woman convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a 1998 car wreck gets a new trial. Pamela Christianson’s vehicle collided head-on with another car in northeast Iowa’s Howard County, killing that other driver just before two o’clock in the morning....
