The Boone boys lost to Gilbert, 89-68, in Raccoon River Conference play on Friday, December 13, in Boone. 

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BOONE, Iowa—Marcella Lydia (Licht) Nell, 93, of Boone, Iowa, passed away on December 11, 2024, at Eastern Star Masonic Home in Boone. Marcella was born on November 7, 1931, to William and Lydia (Moench) Licht in Fort Dodge, Iowa. She graduated from Fort Dodge High School. Marcella attended Concordia Teachers College and taught school at […]

BOONE, Iowa—Gary C. Wisecup II, 57, of Boone, passed away Saturday, December 14, 2024, at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics in Iowa City. Following Gray’s wishes, he was cremated and there will be no services. Gary was born August 21, 1967, in Boone, the son of Gary Wisecup and Sandra (Shadle) Wisecup. He […]

The Boone girls’ basketball team lost a Raccoon River Conference contest to Class 4A, No. 7, Gilbert, 68-40, Friday, December 13, in Boone. 

DES MOINES, Iowa—Gov. Reynolds today announced she has appointed Chris Cournoyer as Lieutenant Governor of Iowa. Cournoyer, a resident of LeClaire, Iowa, was elected to the Iowa Senate in 2018. She chaired the inaugural Technology committee, from which position she wrote and managed the legislation that made Iowa the sixth state in the nation to […]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Conservation staff has reported a positive case of Avian Influenza in a bird discovered at the Don Williams Recreational Area last week. Conservation staff released this information on the Boone County Conservation Facebook page today: Last week staff had spotted a goose out at the Don Williams Lake that was in […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) have detected a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1 HPAI) in a commercial layer flock in O’Brien County, Iowa. This is Iowa’s eighth detection of H5N1 HPAI within poultry […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and its federal partners have been monitoring for the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Iowa’s wild birds since early 2022. After nearly a year without detections in sick or dead birds, Iowa has seen a sharp jump in affected waterfowl across the state mostly, north of […]

BOONE, Iowa—Neighbors of the now-vacant Page Elementary School have likely noticed that the playground equipment is gone. The building’s new owner – The Capstone Group, a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization – plans torepurpose the abandoned campus into an apartment building starting early in 2025 with 28 units that will not receive government rent assistance. The company […]