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WELLMAN
There’s a lot of good things happening in Wellman. Replacement of the 9th Avenue bridge is on schedule and the City is optimistic it may be completed by the end of June. Rural water will …
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By Cheryl Allen |
5/9/25 08:00 AM
WELLMAN
Wellman’s new splash pad was a hit with the community when it was turned on at the end of last summer, and the city is eager to enhance the experience of that asset. At the city …
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By Cheryl Allen |
4/25/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
4/11/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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4/4/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/28/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/21/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/11/25 01:12 PM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
3/7/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/28/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/14/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/7/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
2/7/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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Interview by Cheryl Allen |
1/31/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/31/25 08:00 AM
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. …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/31/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/24/25 08:00 AM
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). …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/17/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/17/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/10/25 08:00 AM
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 …
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By Cheryl Allen |
1/10/25 08:00 AM
