Just after 9:00am on Thursday, we will present items upon which you may purchase at a discount!  These items may be purchased via phone call to 432-1590 or via posts on the KWBG Facebook page. The discount will be determined by the spin of the Big Wheel.  Discounts will range from 35 to 65%.  The […]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Board of Supervisors completed the canvas of last Tuesday Primary Election results.  Last week the unofficial results had a total of 4,666 votes reported, but there were about 600 absentee ballots that had not been counted.  The final canvas had 4,791 votes cast, including absentee ballots.  There were 2,278 Republican ballots […]

BOONE, Iowa—A funeral service has been set for 83 year old Ralph A. Kanne of Boone, Iowa.  He passed away Friday, June 5, 2020 at MercyOne Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral service celebrating Ralph’s life will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at the Fareway Conference Center at the Cobblestone […]

BOONE, Iowa—Funeral arrangements have been set for 90 year old Joanne Louise Butler of Boone, Iowa.  Joanne passed away Sunday, June 7, 2020, at Westhaven Community surrounded by her sisters Barbara Butler and Susan Slight. She was born May 21, 1930 in Ferguson, Iowa, the daughter of Sylvia (Smith) and Lyle Butler. Joanne and family […]

Monday evening a Black Lives Matter demonstration was peacefully held in downtown Boone with approximately 200 people in attendance.  The BLM group then marched from downtown Boone on Story Street to Mamie Eisenhower Avenue to Carroll Street, back to Mamie’s Birthplace to Eighth Street and back to 8th and Story.

BOONE, Iowa—A Black Lives Matters demonstration in Boone Monday evening drew and estimated two-hundred participants that held a peaceful march from downtown Boone on Story Street to Mamie Eisenhower Avenue to Carroll Street, back to Mamie’s Birthplace to Eighth Street and back to 8th and Story.  Marchers were staying on the sidewalk during their march […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig Monday commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly from April through November. “Above normal temperatures across much of the state last week allowed for rapid crop development,” said Secretary Naig. “Some pockets […]