LOCAL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY   HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS/BOYS BASKETBALL Ogden over Madrid 37-32     HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS/BOYS BASKETBALL Madrid over Ogden 72-60     HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SWIMMING Boone-85 Grinnell-85     HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING Ogden over Audubon 48-24 Greene County over Ogden 54-27 Southeast Valley over Ogden 48-21     LOCAL SCHEDULE FOR […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Utilities Board has issued its final decision and order regarding a request from Alliant Energy/Interstate Power and Light Company to increase Iowa retail customer electric rates.  The initial application was filed on March 1, 2019, seeking an increase in electric rates and requesting a permanent annual revenue increase of approximately $203.6 […]

Real Christmas trees can be recycled through January 31st by dropping them off at the Boone County Landfill or at the South Green Street location by the Park Office in Boone.  Trees must be free of tinsel and ornaments and not in a plastic bag please.    

LOCAL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY   WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL DMACC over Southeastern 57-56     LOCAL SCHEDULE FOR TODAY   HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS/BOYS BASKETBALL Ogden at Madrid (6pm on KWBG)     HIGH SCHOOL BOYS SWIMMING Boone at Grinnell

CLIVE, Iowa— A Boone man who bought his mother a $100,000-winning lottery ticket last year has now won a $100,000 prize of his own. “Lightning striking twice in one place is pretty crazy,” Troy Dennis told officials last Friday as he claimed his prize at lottery headquarters in Clive. “I mean, the chances of that […]

BOONE, Iowa—A funeral service has been set for 86-year old Larry Reed of Accura Healthcare in Ames, Iowa and formerly of Boone, Iowa.  The service will be held Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 281 Spruce Lane, Boone, Iowa.  Burial with Military Honors conducted by the Boone Veterans […]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone City Council had to make some difficult decisions but did complete the allocation of anticipated Hotel/Motel Tax Revenue for the 2021 Fiscal Year during a special meeting Tuesday evening.  Receipts in the next fiscal year were estimated at $170,000 while applications and previous commitments amounted to nearly $300,000. The Council had previously […]