Dr. Jake Gorrell began work in May for Evans Drugs of Stockton and El Dorado Springs. Since then he has quickly become an important part of the community as Cedar County’s newest pharmacist.
Stockton's Brian Hammons gives local scouting a standout focus
From tiger to eagle, local educator and community volunteer Marvin Manring sees scouting as an investment in today’s youth
Steve Altheide has made quite a few stops from his boyhood home of Bloomfield, Iowa, to El Dorado Springs, where he now pastors the Park Street Christian Church.
This fall Nick Engleman begins his third coaching assignment in a career in many ways still getting underway. The Stockton High School graduate takes over as head baseball coach at El Dorado Springs. This follows stints at Pleasant Hope and Greenfield.
Volunteerism and community support are alive in well in Stockton thanks to one local cop’s approach to Cedar County
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Alumbaugh and the El Dorado Springs High School choir perform the national anthem at the AT&T Center before a game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Brooklyn Nets.
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Reared on a modest family farm in Polk County, the late B.B. “Bill” McDonald was an esteemed member of the Ash Grove community and superintendent of schools there for 25 years.
John Junior Breakbill was never one to stray far from home. Born in 1935 in a farmhouse built by his grandparents, he lives in the same house today and runs cattle on the same land bought by his grandparents in 1913.
t started with a seed of an idea for a community garden, and has grown into a boon for the local senior center.
John Gerald “Jerry” Taylor, this year’s recipient of the Ozark Empire Fair Foundation’s Pioneer Award , is a lifelong farmer and cattleman reared and seasoned on Illinois prairie farmland.
Fortunately for me, he had lousy aim.
I’m getting ready to celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary with my husband and best friend, Kent, and I realize that I’ve actually been married longer than I was single, and that means I really am getting old.
Jerry and Vicki Pegelow’s little donkeys aren’t tall, but they cast a long shadow in the show arena
Like their movie counterparts, Thelma and Louise were inseparable, and you didn’t want to get on their bad side. Unlike the human versions, however, Thelma and Louise have lived to enjoy retirement.
When I was a boy we seldom kept a bull on the place.
A while back I decided to build up my ranching reputation by improving my equipment. I purchased a 1997 crew cab GMC one-ton diesel with only 254,000 miles on it. I traded in a 74 one-ton flat bed F350 with a winch, plus $4,000. I asked the used car dealer if I could keep the winch. He said …
Picking up the dulcimer, Elliott Smith held it out to reveal the fine craftsmanship that was involved in making it. He plucked a chord or two to demonstrate its magnificent sound.
