Ocheyedan News

Sen. Matt McCoy, D-Des Moines, says he will back a legislative bill that returns Iowa schools to a system of county superintendents, a framework adopted during the 1930s.

Spencer school board members have received predictions, as well as advance warnings, from three area legislators in regard to what challenges the district's coffers and local taxpayers' wallets may expect in response to Iowa's budget shortfall and across-the-board cuts ordered by the governor.

This may be as close to a moment of pure holiday bliss as I've ever experienced.

Iowa farm fields dried out Friday and farmers hope that the corn and soybeans that are still in the fields will follow.

An Ocheyedan windfarm is approved for funding through the Iowa Economic Development Board.

The recent allocation of $525,000 in state grant money will help fund a Dickinson County Trails project aiming to use abandoned railway to connect Dickinson and Osceola counties.

" Iowa GOP lawmakers unveiled a proposal that includes an array of tax incentives and policies they say would reduce the number of Iowans without health insurance and drive down the cost of premiums.

A key senate committee starts picking through a plan to revamp the nation's heath care.

A northwest Iowa lawmaker has joined an effort to "draft" Terry Branstad into Iowa's 2010 gubernatorial race.

Citing the need to change course away from excessive government spending and legislation that kills jobs, state Senator David Johnson has announced he will seek re-election in 2010.

Frederick "Fred" Verne Kearney, age 81, passed away on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 surrounded by his family at St.

After nearly a dozen years of planning and negotiating, the final hurdles are being cleared to convert an abandoned Lakes area railroad into part of the area's trails system.

Republican state Sen. Pat Ward begins chemotherapy in two weeks for an aggressive form of breast cancer.

Sen. David Johnson, R-Ocheyedan, has been diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, a kidney cancer.