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Leanne’s Styles & More, located at 101 S. Washington St. in downtown Remsen, will see a new face working part-time in the establishment owned by Leanne West. Stylist Chelsey Porter of Remsen has been the answer to Leanne’s prayers and will be working part-time in the salon...

PLYMOUTH COUNTY – County farmer Cheryl Cronin, directed $2,500 to Happy Siesta Nursing Home through America’s Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Bayer Fund. Celebrating its 10th year, America’s Farmers Grow Communities partners with farmers to support nonprofit organizations strengthening rural communities. The program offers farmers the chance to direct a $2,500 donation to a nonprofit of their choice. It has awarded more than $33 million to over 8,000 nonprofits across rural America...

PLYMOUTH CO. — The 40th annual Knights of Columbus Phonothon reached new highs in early September raising over $60,000 for Life Skills Training Center in Le Mars. “We thought due to the unsettling times people would be a little more conservative with their resources. In fact many people increased their donations. The generosity of the people of Plymouth County continues to surprise us,” said Shelly Thomson, Life Skills marketing development coordinator...

Jacob Fiedler, an RU graduate and P.E. teacher at the MMCRU Remsen site up until this year, has recently taken the adventure to Taiwan where he got the opportunity to teach physical education at an Americanized school. As most people know, before he left he was the assistant coach for the high school basketball team, and taught physical education for the elementary and middle school in Remsen. ...

REMSEN — The MMCRU Library has been awarded a $2,000 Dollar General Literacy Foundation Grant. Dollar General Literacy Foundation announced the award of approximately $68,000 in literacy grants to Iowa nonprofit organizations this month. “I was very excited to hear that I was a recipient of the Dollar General Literacy Foundation Youth Literacy Grant,” said MMCRU Librarian Stacey Galles...

In person absentee voting for the General Election begins on Monday, October 5, 2020 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Plymouth County Courthouse, at the Auditors’ office on 2nd floor. Masks are recommended to be worn. The last day to vote an absentee ballot in person in the Plymouth County Auditor’s Office is Monday, November 2, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. ...

REMSEN — The victim of a fatal accident which occurred Wednesday, Sept. 30 at the intersection of Iowa Highway 3 and 140 on the east edge of Remsen has been identified by authorities. Israel Blancarte Verastegui, 68, of Worthington, Minnesota, was identified as the person who sustained fatal injuries from the accident. ...

Located at 105 S. Washington St. in downtown Remsen, Ashton Frederes has recently opened her own hair salon called Blush. Her first official day open to the public was Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Owner/Stylist of Blush Hair Salon, Ashton Frederes, explained how the opportunity to open her own salon came about, “The owner of the building reached out to me asking if I was interested in starting my own shop in their location. ...

Brittany Johnson and Levi Waldschmitt were crowned the 2020 Remsen St. Mary’s Homecoming Queen and King following Mass on Friday, Sept. 25.

MARCUS/REMSEN — MMCRU is getting ready to celebrate homecoming starting Sunday, Sept. 27. The Royals are ready to put 2020 in the rear view mirror with their theme “Forget 2020…Blast from the Past.” On Sunday, Sept. 27, high school students will come decorate the hallways based on their theme. The senior class will throwback to the ‘80s, the juniors will put out ‘50s decor, the sophomores will slide back to the ‘70s, and the freshmen will decorate like the ‘90s...

Members of the American Legion held a small flag retirement ceremony at Remsen St. Mary's for the 5-12 grades on September 15. Tom Augustine explained to students where old, faded or torn flags could be brought for proper disposal by members of the Legion. ...

A weeklong celebration kicked off on Sunday, September 13, and Bavarian Meadows Assisted Living joined tens of thousands of assisted living communities across the country for the festivities. National Assisted Living Week® continued through Saturday, September 19, and Bavarian Meadows honored this year’s theme, “Caring is Essential”...

St. Mary’s students will be cranking up the tunes as they get ready to celebrate Homecoming 2020, which will take place the week of September 21-26. The theme, “Cranking Up a Victory,” represents how the students are ready to celebrate being back in school and back on the playing field...

Nashville singer/songwriter and Remsen, Iowa native, Danika Portz, has been selected as the grand prize winner of the Nebraska Furniture Mart Anthem Contest. The national contest garnered more than 400 entries from across the country. The company selected 10 semifinalists and from there, public voting determined the top 5; all of which traveled to Omaha to compete in a live socially distanced performance for the top prize...

PLYMOUTH CO. — Two local educators are among five in the Diocese of Sioux City who received the “Excellence in Education” award during the Bishop’s Fundathon for Catholic Schools, which was held online Sunday, Sept. 13. The local recipients include Marty Kurth from Gehlen Catholic and Kim Phillips from Remsen St. Mary’s. Both recipients said they were humbled by the news of this award...

MARCUS — Two local school systems have announced changes to their learning plans due to COVID-19. The Hinton Community School District along with MMCRU schools will be transitioning to hybrid learning plans. MMCRU announced that all students, preschool through 12th grade, will move to a hybrid learning model beginning Thursday, Sept. 3 in a letter to parents released shortly after noon Tuesday, Sept. 1...

The Luxembourg Heritage Society of Northwest Iowa will hold a meeting on Saturday, September 12, 2020, beginning at 9:30 a.m., in the conference room of Thrivent Financial, 700 12th St. SW, in Le Mars. Anyone interested in the Society and Luxembourg are welcome to join us...

MMCRU and RSM Schools started their 2020-2021 school year on Thursday, August 27.

With the retirement of Helen Kuehl at the end of June, Remsen needed a new Postmaster to take the helm at the Remsen Post Office. David Raff is that Postmaster ready to take up the challenge of running the Remsen Post Office. Raff’s first day serving the people of Remsen was July 20, 2020. ...

With the retirement of Cheryl Cronin, Geri Lynn Schroeder, ARNP -C (Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner - Certified), will be seeing patients full-time at the Floyd Valley Remsen Clinic. Schroeder has been working at the Remsen Clinic part-time since 2013, “I have been staffing the Remsen Clinic part-time since Dr. ...