Congratulations to King Vinny Hayes and Queen Hannah Chesnut.  They were crowned at this afternoon’s pep assembly at Boone High School

On Tuesday morning, in-coming officers for the Daybreakers Kiwanis were officially welcomed into office by the Division 11  Lt. Governor.  Officers pictured are:  Ben Schroeder, secretary; Randy Schmitz, treasurer, Jane Sterenberg, president and Dave Troe, vice president.  Not available for the photo was past president, Alex Kretzinger.  

It is no surprise that the Class of 2023 claimed victory at Sunday’s evening’s Powder Puff game in Boone.  The pleasant surprise is how many spectators turned out for the start of 2022’s Homecoming festivities.  An estimated crowd of over 500 were very generous with their donations to supply the Toreador Food Pantry.  The great […]

Coronation for the Boone High Homecoming King and Queen will be on Friday afternoon Candidates are:  (front) Madisyn Andrews, Hannah Chesnut, Sierra Sherry, Ava Stevens, Brenna Vote, (back) Caden Carr, Landon Davis, Vinny Hayes, Jacob Judge, Jinub Yol

OGDEN, Iowa—Black Hills Energy plans two safety trainings a year for fire fighters, one in eastern Iowa and one in western Iowa. This year, the western Iowa site was Ogden. Ogden Fire Fighters and those from mutual aid fire departments were invited to take part in the training on extinguishing natural gas fires involving a […]

BOONE, Iowa—Boone County Authorities have provided updated information on the Wednesday accident that occurred east of Boone at “T” Avenue and 190th Street. The call to the Communications Center was received at 12:06 p.m. of a collision involving a semi and an SUV. The driver of the SUV has been identified as 78-year-old Richard Webb […]

BOONE, Iowa—Matt Jungmann, events director for the 2022 Farm Progress Show reported the grounds received 2.3″ of rain overnight Saturday to Sunday morning. He noted the grounds handled the water very well and only delayed setup on grass sites until midday Sunday. Various amounts have  been reported around Boone County, with several 3″ reports. Nominal […]

Boone County Week 1 Football Scoreboard   3A #6 Nevada over Boone 38-0 Ogden over Perry 41-0 Woodward Granger over Madrid 20-8   Week 2 Schedule Ogden at Wayne of Corydon (KWBG Game of the Week) Boone at Webster City Belle Plaine at Madrid  

BOONE, Iowa—Set up continues this weekend for the 2022 Farm Progress Show, but media had a chance to take a look at some of the features for this year’s show. The media event Wednesday also allowed for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the show’s Varied Industries Tent. Matt Jungmann, event director of the Farm Progress […]

The “Battle for the Bridge” trophy will be played for Friday night when Madrid and Woodward Granger get together on the football field. A football series that started back in the 1960’s between the two neighboring communities will now have a trophy (posted below) that will go to the winner of the game each year. […]