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ANITA – When CAM’s staff learned earlier this week that it would have an open date, they decided it would be better to rest up instead of find an opponent and play the game.
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The way Exira-EHK coach Tom Petersen looks at the football playoff system planned by the Iowa High School Athletic Association, it’s a fair way to pair teams and allow them to compete.
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AUDUBON – The much-anticipated showdown in Iowa eight-man District 8 is off.
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ANITA – When CAM’s staff learned earlier this week that it would have an open date, they decided it would be better to rest up instead of find an opponent and play the game.
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The way Exira-EHK coach Tom Petersen looks at the football playoff system planned by the Iowa High School Athletic Association, it’s a fair way to pair teams and allow them to compete.
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AUDUBON – The much-anticipated showdown in Iowa eight-man District 8 is off.
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CORNING – CAM won the Southwest Valley Volleyball Invitational Saturday, defeating five teams en route to the title.
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ fishing report for the week of Sept. 24 for southwest Iowa:
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Democrats’ concerns that confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court could spell the end of the Affordable Care Act may be misplaced, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley.
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LONGUEUIL, Quebec (AP) — The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League approved stiffer punishments for fighting Wednesday, a day before the start of the regular season.
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A look at what's happening around the majors Thursday:
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning celebrated their Stanley Cup title with a boat parade and ceremonies Wednesday at Raymond James Stadium.
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ATLANTIC — Law enforcement was called out to the Atlantic Wal-Mart on Sunday night about 8:20 p.m. on a report of a bomb threat.
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POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY — A Marne man was injured in Pottawattamie County on Wednesday morning in a single car accident.
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Audubon County has seen an increase in COVID-19 cases, with six of those cases being kids under 18. Overall, on Wednesday around noon 1,222 individuals in Audubon County had been tested, 90 individuals tested positive, or 7.4 percent positive.
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Early mornings, feet pounding, heart racing, my book playing in my headphones. This is what gets me through every day. I am an avid runner and actually enjoy doing it daily. When I was in 4th grade, I learned that you could get a Presidential Award for running the mile at a certain speed. Th…
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AUDUBON COUNTY — Late Thursday afternoon, Sept. 24, the Iowa Department of Public Health and Audubon County Public Health identified 11 additional cases of COVID-19 in the county, bringing the total positive cases to 77.
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AUDUBON — As of Sept. 17, Audubon County’s total positive confirmed cases of COVID-19 stand at 50, including 39 that have recovered and one death.
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ELK HORN — Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton School District officials announced last week that six individuals in the district had been quarantined due to COVID-19 but have not tested positive — and has plans in place in the event the district sees a 10 percent or higher absentee rate, due to infec…
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AUDUBON - JD Scholten, of Sioux City, is running for Iowa's Fourth Congressional District, and along the way he's taking the 374 town, "Every Town Trail."
ELK HORN — Students at the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton Community School District will continue with distance learning through the end of the second quarter, Dec. 18, after the school board approved extending distance-learning Wednesdays at the board’s September meeting this week.
ELK HORN — Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton Spartans will be holding Homecoming 2020 Celebrations starting on Monday, Sept. 28 and running through Friday, Oct. 2, when they face Ar-We-Va. This year’s Homecoming theme is “Rock the Rockets.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday tried to walk back his refusal to outright condemn a far right facist group during his debate with Democrat Joe Biden, but the inflammatory moment was far from the first time the president has failed to denounce white supremacists or has …
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Donald Trump appears to be ignoring a deadline to establish how many refugees will be allowed into the United States next year, raising uncertainty about the future of the 40-year-old resettlement program that has been dwindling under his administration.
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SANTA ROSA (AP) — Nikki and Kevin Conant returned to their home in California's wine country Wednesday to find only the charred remains of their home and wine-barrel repurposing business.
PARIS (AP) — Is dislodging African artwork from a European museum a political statement, or a criminal act? That's the question a French court weighed Wednesday in an emotionally charged trial centered around a Congolese activist campaigning to take back art he says was plundered by colonizers.
BRUSSELS (AP) — Democratic standards are facing “important challenges” in some European Union countries, particularly in Hungary and Poland, where the judicial systems are under threat, the EU's executive commission said Wednesday in its first report on adherence to the rule of law.
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I don’t usually write twice in a week, but this one’s Big (no pun intended).
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I was covering Griswold’s volleyball tournament on Saturday with photos aplenty.
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I was just reflecting on the road trips the Atlantic football team and the throng of fans have made these past couple of weeks.
Dear Editor,
