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The Remsen Public Library, in honor of their 50th anniversary, held a Coloring Page Contest. All of the participant's coloring pages are displayed at the Library. Students Pre-K through first grade...

The Remsen Chamber did a wonderful job organizing the annual Easter Egg Hunt, which started at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 15, 2017. About 150 kids took part in the Easter festivities, which included...

The Remsen St. Mary's Sandy Augustine Memorial Gym was buzzing with activity on Tuesday, April 11 as well as the day before in preparation for the Then Feed Just One (TFJO) packaging date. Eighteen...

RSM put on three great performances of Oliver this past weekend, April 6, 8 & 9.

The Turnaround GK Blaze and GK Storm competitive gymnastics team continued their 2017 competition season by blazing into Des Moines, Iowa for the Field of Dreams Invite February 3-5. The Turnaround...

The Turnaround GK Blaze and GK Storm competitive gymnastics team blazed into their last regular meet of the 2017 competition season at the Golden Invitational in Omaha March 10-11. The Turnaround GK...

By: Miranda Loutsch, RSM Journalism On March 4, the Remsen St. Mary's Dance Team hosted their annual Dance Night. During this event the team performed all of their routines from the year as well...

By: Sydney Lewis, RSM Journalism The Remsen St. Mary's Boys Basketball team had a very successful season, extending to the state tournament in Des Moines, Iowa. Throughout the whole season, the...

Hawks vs Grandview Christian & Hawks vs North Linn

Mardi Gras at St. Mary's took on a new face this year. The Christian Leadership Team (CLT) planned new games as well as keeping some of the more popular ones from past years. Pictured are just a few...

There was a great following of RSM fans at State Basketball in the Des Moines Wells Fargo Arena on Monday, March 6. This first time to state for the RSM basketball team brought fans, the young and...

Family and community members gathered in the Jason Puetz Memorial Gym at Gehlen Catholic School on Tuesday afternoon to see off the 36 members of Gehlen Catholic’s Mission Honduras. The group will be...

By: Hunter Johnson, MMCRU Journalism The Royal boys' basketball team on Tuesday, Feb. 7 faced the HMS Hawks. MMCRU was doing well after the first quarter trailing only by two points with a score...

By: Allen Hamil, Sports Editor Le Mars Daily Sentinel REMSEN -- Jacob Wesselmann cracked 1,000 career points as Remsen St. Mary's completed a perfect 20-0 regular season with a 67-22 blowout of...

Remsen St. Mary's fourth graders hosted the RSM Shootout basketball tournament on Saturday, February 11. There were 12 teams that competed in three separate round robin pools. Teams that participated...

By: Megan Sabin The Remsen Chamber of Commerce held their annual meeting and dinner on Sat., February 11, 2017 at the Avalon Ballroom in Remsen with 125 people in attendance, according to Chamber...

By: Hailey Klein, RSM Journalism On February 1, Remsen St. Mary's High School students and faculty enjoyed time together on Student Appreciation Day. They went to Drop Zone and the Southern Hills...

By: Miranda Loutsch, RSM Journalism On February 1, Remsen St. Mary's had their annual Family Fun Night in the Sandy Augustine Memorial Gym. Mrs. Mary Arens said "Family Fun Night was a...

By: Allen Hamil, Sports Editor Le Mars Daily Sentinel REMSEN -- After an even first half, Remsen St. Mary's got the offense to click in the second half and came away with a 48-29 victory on...

By: RSM Journalism On December 2, Remsen St. Mary's had its annual Anointing Mass held in the Sandy Augustine Memorial Gym. Some of the elderly were brought over from the nursing homes to join the...

On Friday, November 11 Remsen St. Mary's held a Veterans' Day Service in the Sandy Augustine Memorial Gym. The service began with the advancement of colors and an invocation was led by Father Bill....

By: Hunter Johnson, MMCRU Journalism What is Veterans Day? It is a public holiday held on the anniversary of the end of World War I, November 11, to honor U.S. veterans and victims of all wars. It...

The Remsen Thunderbolts youth football teams had a great season this year. All four Thunderbolts teams ended the season with a perfect 5-0 record. They ended the season by playing the last game...

By: Brooklyn Frederes, Sydney Lewis, and Kaitlyn VanDenTop, RSM Journalism On October 12, sixty-two Remsen St. Mary's High School students went to Planned Parenthood in Sioux City to pray for...

Vicki Heeren was among three across the Diocese of Sioux City who received an Excellence in Education Award at the Bishop's Dinner of Catholic Education on Saturday, September 24. Fifty-one RSM...

On Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, the Remsen Lions Club hosted the Punt, Pass & Kick (PPK) competition where 80 area youth competed at the Remsen Football Field, starting at 1 p.m. The first place winner of...

St. Mary's started the first week of school with in-service and teacher/staff retreat on Monday and Tuesday, August 22 and 23. Kris Schiltz, Spiritual Life Director, and the RSM administration had...

The 39th annual Remsen Demolition Derby took place on Saturday night, Aug. 13. The event, sponsored by the Remsen Community Action Club, was held at the Remsen Derby Arena. Four classes of cars...

DES MOINES - By a final score of 8-5, the Remsen St. Mary's baseball team topped War Eagle Conference foe West Sioux to claim the Class 1A state baseball championship Saturday, July 30 in Des Moines...

Fair fun continued into Thursday. Here are a few of the highlights from Thursday's fair action.

Here is a glimpse of the fun-filled action of the first day of the Plymouth County Fair.

On July 12-14, St. Paul Lutheran Church in Remsen hosted a Vacation Bible School for all church denominations. Tuesday night started off with around 30 kids, six teachers, and six volunteers full of...

A Children's Pedal Tractor Pull was held during the Kids Days Carnival in Remsen on Monday, June 20 at 8 p.m. Children, ages four to eleven, took part in the event, which was sponsored by Remsen...

By: Megan Sabin Around 90 people participated in the first ever GLOW Walk, which took place on Sunday evening, June 19 at around 8:45 p.m. As a Kick-Off Event for Kids Days, both events being...

Rides, Games, Food, and Fun offered Downtown at Kids Days

Plymouth County was under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning on Friday night which lead to having to clean up debris and tree limbs from a wind and rainstorm, which started at about 8:45 p.m. Friday, June...

Andy Galles of Remsen, along with Matthew Solyntjes, a native of St. Andrews Parish in Sibley, was ordained a Transitional Deacon at the 10:00 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of the Epiphany in Sioux City...

As the school year started, Mr. Toby Young and Mrs. Kayla Schroeder started a Student Leadership Team at Remsen-Union Schools. As a group, they took on a school-wide philanthropy project and chose...

Several individuals were honored for their service to St. Mary's Schools at the school closing celebration Mass on Friday, June 3, 2016. Students and adults in attendance at the Mass were asked to...

Remembering the importance of Memorial Day