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Wellman approves concept for vets memorial, honors public safety telecommunicators

WELLMAN The Wellman City Council held a public hearing Monday night for the FY26 proposed property tax levy, which no members of the public attended. The regular business meeting followed, at … more
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Wellman man charged with enticing a minor

Nelson Overholt, 37, of Wellman, was arrested in Johnson County on Thursday, March 27 and booked into the Johnson County Jail, where he faces two charges: enticing a minor under 16 – sexual … more

GOOD EATS

About 1,500 pork tenderloins were at the ready Saturday night at the Wellman Volunteer Fire Department’s 5th Annual Tenderloin Meal. The grillmen took care that each of the nearly 9-ounce fillets … more
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Council chooses N&N Sanitation for Wellman trash, recycling

WELLMAN What could have been a simple rubber-stamp continuing the city’s relationship with Cox Sanitation and Recycling turned into a two-meeting discussion that played out more like a sporting … more
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Kalona, Wellman, Washington libraries awarded at Annual Dinner

Kalona, Wellman, Washington libraries awarded at Annual Dinner By Cheryl Allen The News RIVERSIDE Over 300 business professionals and community members gathered at the Riverside Casino … more
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Competition heats up for Wellman’s garbage

WELLMAN Making a decision on who will collect Wellman’s garbage for the next five years turned out to be more complicated for the Wellman City Council on Monday night than they perhaps … more
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Print media has eyes on Wellman, council reminded

WELLMAN If there were such a thing as a ‘typical’ city council meeting, the meeting Tuesday night in Wellman would probably qualify. An update from Mary Audia of the Washington Economic … more
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Stay tuned (up): The Station is now live

WELLMAN Small towns need oil change and tire shops, especially when residents’ 50-mile round-trip commutes burn oil and rubber like it’s going out of fashion. For a while Wellman lost theirs … more
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Wellman Food Pantry fundraiser sees great turnout

Folks turned out for the Wellman Food Pantry’s Soup & Chili Cookoff fundraiser on Sunday, Feb. 2, making the event a big success. The Food Pantry, which is based out of Asbury United Methodist … more
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Pat & Krista Gent honored as Master Pork Producers

Pat and Krista Gent have been raising pigs from wean to finish on their family farm in Wellman for over a decade, doing everything from grinding feed and hauling pigs to marketing. At the Iowa Pork … more
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Progress 2025: Wellman

It might not be flashy, but sometimes progress means replacing 100-year-old infrastructure and reversing course on decades of apathy. City administrator Kelly Litwiller and mayor Ryan Miller talked … more
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Wellman Food Pantry celebrates 20 years with Soup & Chili Cookoff

WELLMAN For the past 20 years, the Wellman Food Pantry has served the community from the basement of Asbury United Methodist Church, making sure families are fed and households adequately stocked … more
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Wellman Rotary’s Soup Supper

People flooded into the Parkside banquet room on Wednesday night, Jan. 22, for the Wellman Rotary’s soup supper, which served as a fundraiser for a new veterans/first responders memorial in town. … more
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Wellman approves bond sale, considers FY25-26 budget, questions tree emblem

WELLMAN Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Inauguration Day– neither kept the Wellman City Council from meeting on Monday, although some council members were eager to get back to celebrating the return … more
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Online ordering to get a boost at Freeman Foods, JW’s Foods thanks to state grants

KALONA Local grocers Freeman Foods and JW’s Foods were among 20 recipients of Rural Innovation Grants announced Jan. 9 by Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Iowa Economic Development Authority (EIDA). … more
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Wellman begins fundraising for veterans, first responders memorial

WELLMAN When the City of Wellman purchased the high-visibility lot on the corner of 8th Avenue and Highway 22 last March – vacant, but for an LED sign – they had an inkling of what they wanted … more
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‘A great guy with a big heart’

KALONA His bright smile, his penchant for humor and laughter, his positivity and joy. These are the traits that come to mind when people think David Tornow, a “great guy with a big heart” who … more
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Wellman prepares to borrow for bridge replacement

WELLMAN With work set to begin on replacing the 9th Avenue/Gingko Avenue bridge as soon as Monday, Jan. 13, the Wellman City Council spent the bulk of their meeting Monday night looking at the … more
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How to flush a toilet in the dark

KALONA The ice storm that kept most of us home on Saturday, Dec. 14 was ill-timed, falling precisely at a moment where many had holiday events to attend and shopping to do. It might have been an … more
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GOOD BEANS

WELLMAN Prior to owning Kalona Coffee House with wife Rhonda, as he has since 2010, Jeff Yoder was never really that into coffee. She was the passionate one, learning the ropes at Caribou Coffee … more
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