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Burmeister will stay on as Nodaway Valley boys cross country coach

Sports

June 10th, 2021 by admin

The Nodaway Valley School District confirmed at their Wednesday School Board meeting that Darrell Burmeister will return as the boys cross country coach this upcoming fall. The confirmation follows some miscommunication and a bit of controversy after Burmeister retired from teaching this spring. The board issued the following statement after the meeting:

Burmeister has led the cross country program to five state championships. Four of of those titles for the boys in 2002, 2015, 2016, and 2017 and one for the girls in 2009. Chase Green will now serve as the girls cross country coach. Burmeister had a legendary 600+ win career as the head boys basketball coach. He is stepping aside from that post and Jeremy Blake of Atlantic was recently hired to take over that program.

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High School Baseball/Softball Scoreboard 06/09/2021

Sports

June 10th, 2021 by admin

SOFTBALL

Hawkeye Ten Conference
Riverside 7, Shenandoah 0 (R: Kenna Ford threw a 2-hitter)
Soutwest Valley 11, Red Oak 5
St. Albert 5, CB Thomas Jefferson 1
Underwood 4, Harlan 2

Rolling Valley Conference
Exira-EHK 3, CAM 0 (E: Macy Emgarten fired 3-hitter with 12 K’s)
Ar-We-Va 9, Whiting 1
Boyer Valley 4, Woodbine 1
West Harrison 9, Glidden-Ralston 0

Corner Conference
Griswold 7, East Union 3 (G: Makenna Askeland 3-run HR)
Stanton 5, Orient-Macksburg 4

Pride of Iowa Conference
Earlham 12, Nodaway Valley 0
Grand View Christian 2, Central Decatur 0
Lenox 15, East Mills 0
Martensdale-St. Marys 6, Panorama 1
Southeast Warren 13, Murray 4
Wayne 11, Interstate-35 0

Other Scores
ADM 6, Winterset 2
Perry 5, Carroll 4

BASEBALL

Western Iowa Conference
Riverside 9, East Mills 8 (HC Cole Chapin’s first career win)
Tri-Center 12, SW\outhwest Valley 2
Underwood 6, Kuemper Catholic 5

Rolling Valley Conference
Ar-We-Va 15, Whiting 1
Boyer Valley 9, Woodbine 6
CAM 10, Exira-EHK 5 (C: Lane Spieker 3-run HR in late innings)
Coon Rapids-Bayard 10, IKM-Manning 4
Coon Rapids-Bayard 5, IKM-Manning 0

Corner Conference
Stanton 22, Orient-Macksburg 9

Pride of Iowa Conference
Central Decatur 7, Pleasantville 3
Nodaway Valley 9, Earlham 1 (N: Caelen DeVault complete game with 8 K’s)
Panorama 15, Martensdale-St. Marys 7
Southeast Warren 14, Murray 1
Wayne 17, Melcher-Dallas 5

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Derek Hall hired to be new Atlantic boys basketball head coach

Sports

June 10th, 2021 by admin

(updated) The Atlantic School Board, Wednesday evening, approved the hiring of the next boys head basketball coach.

That’s Atlantic School District Superintendent Steve Barber. Derek Hall takes over the position from Jeff Ebling, who recently resigned to take the head coaching position at Indianola High School. Hall was an All-State basketball player at Denison High School, where he graduated in 2013. Hall went on to play college football at Morningside College. He was hired by the Atlantic School District the year of his graduation.

Hall teaches 6th grade science at the Atlantic Middle School. His immediate family lives in Harlan where his sister Ashley just graduated and his brother Aidan is entering his junior year. He also has another brother Luke that has graduated college.

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DELBERT E. KING, 81, of Hancock (Svcs. 06/15/2021)

Obituaries

June 9th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

DELBERT E. KING, 81, of Hancock, died Wednesday, June 9, 2021, in Bellevue, NE. Funeral services for DELBERT KING will be held on Tuesday, June 15th at 10:30 a.m. at the Hancock United Methodist Church in Hancock. Rieken Vieth Funeral Home in Oakland is assisting the family with arrangements.

Visitation with family will be held on Monday, June 14th from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Rieken-Vieth Funeral Home in Oakland.

Interment will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery, east of Hancock.

DELBERT E. KING is survived by:

Sons: Robert (Darlene) King of Bellevue, NE. David (Cindy) King of Onawa. Stephen (Tracy) King of Omaha, NE.

Sister: Shirley Mae Jefferson of Oakland.

8 Grandchildren

Many other relatives and friends.

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Ernst blasts Biden’s proposed military budget

News

June 9th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Republican Senator Joni Ernst says President Biden has proposed a federal budget that would spend too little on the military and too much on the Internal Revenue Service. “Who does the president think he will be able to call on should we need to fight off foreign threats? His new army of IRS agents?” Ernst asks. “…Americans may fear an IRS audit, but ‘Red China’ won’t.”

Biden has proposed increasing the number of I-R-S agents by 15 percent in each of the next 10 years in order to beef up efforts to catch Americans who aren’t paying what they owe in taxes. Ernst, the first female combat veteran elected to the U-S Senate, says Biden’s proposed budget is far less generous to the military.

“The small number of new ships added to the Navy will not keep pace with the growth of communist China’s ship building,” Ernst says. “This is especially concerning since the CCP now boasts the world’s largest Navy and is attempting to expand its Naval presence in the Atlantic.”

Reports indicate China is trying to establish a port on the west coast of Africa that would be home base for Chinese submarines and air craft carriers. Ernst made her comments this (Wednesday) afternoon during a speech on the Senate floor.

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Hot, dry weather means even lower runoff projections on the Missouri River

News, Weather

June 9th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Drought conditions are expected to expand and worsen across Iowa when the new map is released tomorrow (Thursday) from the U-S Drought Monitor. The continued hot, dry weather is being reflected in runoff predictions for the Missouri River. Kevin Grode, with the U-S Army Corps of Engineers in Omaha, says lower-than-normal runoff has persisted since last year.

“May runoff above Sioux City, Iowa, was 2.1 million acre feet, which is 61-percent of average,” Grode says. “This follows a very dry April. Soil conditions in the upper basin continue to be extremely dry during the mountain snowmelt and spring rainfall portion of the runoff season.” Grode says the Corps’ overall runoff prediction will end up well below normal.

“The current dry soil conditions and NOAA’s latest outlooks calling for warmer-than-normal temperatures and drier-than-normal precipitation has resulted in the 2021 calendar year runoff forecast of 17.9-million acre feet, which is 69-percent of average,” he says. Grode says they don’t expect much change until perhaps 2022.

“Given the dry soil moisture conditions, below average stream flow and the extended warm and dry climate outlook, we expect runoff to remain below average during the remainder of the calendar year,” Grode says. The Corps is sending letters to water users all along the river, warning them of possible problems with low water access.

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WESLEY GENE YOUNG, 23, of Oakland (Svcs. 6/17/21)

Obituaries

June 9th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

WESLEY GENE YOUNG, 23, of Oakland, died Wednesday, June 9th, at Bergan Mercy Hospital, in Omaha. Funeral services for WESLEY YOUNG will be held 10:30-a.m, Thursday, June 17th, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Avoca. Rieken-Vieth Funeral Home in Oakland has the arrangements.

Visitation will be on Wednesday, June 16, 2021, at the Oakland Community Building in Oakland from 5:00 to 7:30 PM.

Interment will be in the Avoca Cemetery.

WESLEY YOUNG is survived by:

Parents: Jimmy Gene and Denise Ann Young of Oakland

Daughter: Veda Eloise Young, of Oakland.

Siblings: Cody Boysen, of Park Rapids, MN; Tyler (Jacqueline) Boysen, of Council Bluffs; IA, Mikayla (Angelo) Emmanuel,  of Oakland, and Jordan Young, of Oakland.

Grandfather: Marlin Andersen.

Other relatives, extended family and friends.

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2021 Hawkeye Ten All-Conference Girls Soccer Teams

Sports

June 9th, 2021 by admin

2021 HAWKEYE 10 ALL CONFERENCE GIRLS SOCCER TEAMS
FIRST TEAM
1 Jada Jensen** Atlantic 10 F
2 Quinn Grubbs Atlantic 10 D
3 Bailey Gibbons Denison-Schleswig 11 Center Forward
4 Nora Dougherty** Glenwood 10 F
5 Avery Blasdel** Glenwood 12 MF/F
6 Kelly Embray Glenwood 12 Outside MF
7 Raegen Wicks** Harlan 11 MF/F
8 Hannah Estrada Lewis Central 12 Forward
9 Hope Jensen Lewis Central 12 MF
10 Haley Bach Lewis Central 12 Forward
11 Taylor Gregory Lewis Central 12 MF
12 Hannah Lucy Lewis Central 12 GK
13 Hana Daoudi Lewis Central 11 H-MID
14 Makenna Shepard St. Albert 12 Mid-Fwd
15 Ella Klusman** St. Albert 9 Mid-Fwd
2ND TEAM
1 Maycie Waters Atlantic 12 D/M
2 Madison McCoubrey Creston 12 G/D/F
3 Whitlee Auen Denison-Schleswig 10 Midfield/Foward
4 Larissa Pelley Glenwood 12 D/MF
5 Lauren Roenfeldt Glenwood 11 D
6 Grace Nightser Glenwood 11 GK
7 Kaia Bieker Harlan 11 F
8 Kylie Feilmeier Kuemper 12 Outside Back
9 Callie Williams Lewis Central 11 DF
10 Gracie Hays Lewis Central 10 Forward
11 Megan Elam Lewis Central 10 H-MID
12 Lily Krohn St. Albert 9 Def-Mid-Fwd
13 Sophie Sheffield St. Albert 9 GK
14 Anna Helton St. Albert 10 Def
15 Maddie Estell St. Albert 12 Def
HONORABLE MENTION
1 Lindley Eblen Atlantic 10 M/F
2 Edria Brummer Atlantic 10 GK
3 Aubrey Guyer Atlantic 10 M
4 Zoe Ralston Creston 9 M
5 Autumn Stafford Creston 10 M
6 Kyra Hawn Denison-Schleswig 10 Center Defender
7 Faith Weber Glenwood 9 D
8 Cameryn Young Glenwood 12 MF
9 Darbie Argotsinger Harlan 9 MF/F
10 Claire Schmitz Harlan 11 D
11 Cate Mayhall Kuemper 10 Attacking Forward
12 Kenya Prescott Kuemper 11 Attacking Forward
13 Haylee Erickson Lewis Central 9 Forward
14 Liz Elkins St. Albert 12 Def

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LuANN GROSS, 64, of Panama (Mass of Christian Burial 6/12/21)

Obituaries

June 9th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

LuANN GROSS, 64, of Panama, died Tuesday, June 8th, at Methodist Hospital. A Mass of Christian Burial for LuANN GROSS will be held 11-a.m. Saturday, June 12th, at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Earling. Pauley-Jones Funeral Home in Harlan has the arrangements.

Visitation at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Earling, is on Friday, June 11th, from 2-until 8-p.m., with the family greeting friends from 5-until 8-p.m., and a Prayer Service at 7-p.m.

Burial is in the St. Joseph’s Cemetery.

LuANN GROSS is survived by:

Her husband – Craig Gross, of Panama.

Her son – Brian Gross, of Ashland, NE.

Her daughters – Sarah (Donnie) Martindale, of Spring, TX., & Nicole (Brad) Renze, of Manning.

Her Mother – Lois (Brown) Dresen, of Earling.

Her sister – Linda Klein, of Earling.

Her brother – Roger Dresen, of Walnut.

and 4 grandchildren.

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Council Bluffs man arrested in Page County

News

June 9th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

The Page County Sheriff’s Office reports 32-year-old Michael Dean Wilson, of Council Bluffs, was arrested Tuesday on Montgomery County Warrants for Parole Violation (No Bond) and Controlled Substance Violation (bond $50,000.00). Wilson was arrested in Shenandoah. During his arrest, Wilson was also charged with Possession of a controlled Substance (bond $2,000.00). He was being held in the Page County Jail.

Michael Dean Wilson

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