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Residents and patrons whom use Happy Siesta Health Care Center’s Outpatient Remsen Rehab Center might notice a small change to their therapists’ name tags. Remsen Rehab Center, located in Happy Siesta, has recently gone over a change in companies that the trained therapists are from. The old company was ONR, Inc., but the new company the Rehab Center will be using is Reliant...

A parade and a tasting tent will be a part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the arrival of the first Luxembourg settlers in Northwest Iowa. The Luxembourg Heritage Society of Northwest Iowa is planning a two-day celebration of the arrival for June 6 and 7, 2020. ...

PLY. CO. - Absentee ballots for the November 6, 2018 General Election are available as of October 8th in the Auditor’s Office at the Plymouth County Courthouse during regular business hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday to vote in person. Absentee ballots may be cast in the Auditor’s office until Monday, November 5th until 5 p.m...

You are invited to come and hear a 45-minute educational presentation on Medicare. Included will be: what to expect from Medicare, eligibility, the different plans and options, and supplement offerings. Recommended for ages 58 and up who are planning for Medicare or are already enrolled and are open to learn of different options. Medicare open enrollment period is now until December 7...

REMSEN — With their abundance of scoring and lack of parity between competing schools, overtime games in 8-player football are quite rare. You’d be more likely to find two schools combining for over 100 points or a blowout margin of more than 50 points than you would two teams scoring the exact same amount of points at the end of regulation...

MARCUS — Class 1A second-ranked Gehlen Catholic sweated out a 29-27 win in the first set against MMCRU on Tuesday, October 2 before cruising to a sweep with 25-14 and 25-7 wins in the final two frames. “Well, we were lucky to survive a tremendous effort from MMCRU in the first set,” Gehlen Head Coach Mike Meyer said. “They forced us into making most of the errors we made in that set. We probably were fortunate to win game one.”...

REMSEN — MMCRU came away with a 3-1 victory over West Sioux on Thursday, October 4, in War Eagle Conference action. The Royals won the first set 25-16 before the match was tied up by the Falcons with a 25-19 set win. MMCRU answered with wins of 25-11 and 25-20 to take the match...

The MMCRU netters played their last home game against West Sioux, Hawarden on October 4 in the Remsen gym. The game was also featured senior night, which honored the senior players and their parents for their time and service in the volleyball program. The seniors recognized were Jadee Shimitz and Madison Treinen. Shimitz is the daughter of Ben and Melba Ter Horst. Treinen is the daughter of Mike and Jennifer Treinen...

On October 2, the Royals’ volleyball team played second rated Gehlen Catholic in a home contest in the MMCRU High School Gym. The Lady Royals played hard but came up short as they lost all three sets against the Jays. The home team came out fired up and played the Jays tough in the first set but finished just short. The final scores were 27-29, 14-25, and 7-25...

KINGSLEY — Tuesday, October 2, marked the second of two home meets for the combined WC-KP cross country team. This one was held at Brookside Golf Course in Kingsley under misty conditions. MMCRU’s Kaitlyn Goth took 10th place individually as she ended in 23:06.51...

HARTLEY/REMSEN — The Remsen St. Mary’s volleyball team split their two matches last week, going on the road to sweep Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn, but falling to South O’Brien at home. HMS, coming off their first win of the season against Clay Central-Everly in their prior match, could not string together two straight wins as RSM won in straight sets 25-19, 25-10 and 25-21...

HINTON — The scoring figures had been trending down for Hinton since a 42-0 win over Lawton-Bronson in Week 3. The team hit their low point in a 21-7 loss to Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn in their previous game before bouncing back with a big 50-0 win over MMCRU on Friday. For the Blackhawks it is the most points scored this season and most since also recording 50 points against Okoboji in the 2016 season...

MMCRU hosted South O’Brien in varsity football action on Friday, Sept. 28. It was homecoming for the Royals, who looked to put an exclamation point on the exciting week with an exciting game against the South O’Brien Wolverines. However, the Wolverines walked out with a 40-0 victory...

LE MARS — After 31 years with the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department, Chief Deputy Craig Bartolozzi is retiring from law enforcement. “Time’s right for me,” Bartolozzi explained. “Opportunities came around for me to take and it was time to move on. I started here in 1987. I worked in Remsen and Marcus and the Le Mars PD before coming here, so I’ve spent about 40 years in law enforcement.”...

REMSEN — A Plymouth County farm family has been recognized with an Iowa Farm Environmental Leader Award. Aaron and Becky Easton, Remsen, were nominated by Kristi Silverthorn, Deep Creek watershed coordinator, on behalf of the Plymouth Soil and Water Conservation District...

MARCUS — MMCRU can’t tame their pride this homecoming. The Royals will be celebrating their 2018 homecoming next week with a circus theme, beginning Sunday, Sept. 23, when the high school classes will decorate their hallways from 1-4 p.m. Festivities burst into Monday with high schoolers dressing up for ‘Merica Day while the middle schoolers enjoy Holiday Day. The cross country team has a meet in Alta at 4:30 p.m., while the volleyball team heads to Hawarden to face West Sioux...

LE MARS — A total of 203 third graders from Le Mars Community, Remsen-Union and Remsen St. Mary’s Schools and fourth graders from Gehlen Catholic took a trip to the farm, Thursday, Sept. 13. It was the Le Mars Area Chamber of Commerce Ag Committee’s annual ag tour, something that has been going on for about 30 years...

What makes you unique or special in this world? The RSM 7th graders found out during Reading class this week. In preparing to read “One” by James Berry and “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” by Emily Dickinson, students discussed and agreed that no two people are exactly alike and that everybody is special. ...

MARCUS - If you like to see plenty of offense and a high-scoring game then Friday’s (September 20) Gehlen Catholic and MMCRU matchup should have fed your appetite. The Jays had been absent from the scoring column in three of their four games this season, but came alive in the district opener for a 62-32 win over the Royals. ...

Remsen St. Mary’s will be hosting a tailgate at their home football game on Friday, Sept. 28 vs. Harris-Lake Park at the Remsen football field. Tailgate will start at 6:15 p.m. and will be serving pulled pork sandwiches, chips, and drink. This tailgate is sponsored by Gengler Feed Service, Matgen Insurance, WesTel Systems, Remsen Knights of Columbus, and Remsen Processing...

The MMCRU Royals have been getting ready for their 2018-2019 Homecoming this week. The theme is “Our Pride Cannot be Tamed” (Circus Theme). Each day will be filled with dress up days and fun-filled events. Dress up days for high school are Monday-‘Merica Day, Tuesday-Circus Act Day, Wednesday-Color Day (seniors-black, juniors-red, sophomores-white, freshman-pink, staff-tie dye), Thursday-Animal Day, and Friday-Spirit Day...

The MMCRU Royals have welcomed a new foreign exchange student into the student body named Bektur Kubanychbekov. Bektur originates from Kyrgyzstan. He is a junior and trying out football as a place kicker and also running cross country. He is living with his host family, Roy and Lisa Tucker, and says that he’s glad that he’s there. Bektur will be staying in Iowa for nine months and plans to leave May 24...

ALTA — Local volleyball teams MMCRU and Remsen St. Mary’s converged on a tournament hosted by Alta-Aurelia on Saturday, September 22. MMCRU MMCRU was the top finisher of the three local schools as they took second place. The team won the first set against Class 2A No. 15 Cherokee in the championship match 21-16, but the Braves brought home the trophy with 21-13 and 15-3 wins in the final two sets...

SPENCER - At the Clay County Fair, the MMCRU FFA Chapter has entered the Tallest Corn Contest. The corn seed we grew that was entered was donated by the Iowa FFA Association. The corn was planted on the south side of the MMCRU greenhouse. The MMCRU FFA Chapter has gotten third place by 15 feet and 6 inches. Please come and visit the MMCRU tallest corn at the MMCRU greenhouse by the school in Marcus...

MMCRU had an eventful week last week with the last components in the new industrial tech center being finished. Construction workers finished their installation of the ventilation and electrical systems in the shop last Monday. The work was scheduled to be finished before the school year began, but due to unforeseen complications, the work was stretched into the early months of the first quarter...