Seven Akron-Westfield varsity Large Group Speech groups and two junior varsity teams are headed to the state Large Group Speech Contest on Saturday, Feb. 7 at Sioux City East High School.
On Jan. 24, eight varsity teams, which is Grades 10 – 12, and five junior varsity (freshmen) teams competed in the Iowa High School Speech Association’s District Contest at Le Mars Community High School.
A-W Large Group Speech Coach Susan Anderson was extremely pleased with the effort and the performances at the district contest.
Comments from the judges were very complimentary to the groups receiving Superior “I” ratings, said Anderson. “But, as always, there is definitely work to be done before they compete with some 110 other schools from the Northwest
Iowa Highway 3, east of Akron, can be a bugger to keep open. After two wintry blasts with severe wind chills, Iowa Department of Transportation workers took Old Man Winter’s first
By Julie Ann Madden
Akron officials are planning to raise police protection costs and begin charging for providing ambulance services to Westfield residents.
At their Jan. 20 meeting, Westfield councilors
By Steve Peterson
Monday, Jan. 19 was the first day on the job for Akron’s new police chief, Jimmy James.
According to Akron City Clerk Melea Nielsen, who provided information to The Akron Hometowner on the Akron Police Logs, on Dec. 26 at approximately 1:40 a.m., three Akron downtown businesses had items stolen.
The three businesses
Plymouth County will offer the Commercial Ag Weed, Insect and Plant Disease Management Continuing Instructional Course (CIC) for commercial pesticide applicators Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015. The program will be shown at locations across Iowa through the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Pesticide
The Northwest Iowa Beginning Young Livestock Farmer Group has planned another great educational experience in Le Mars.
The next educational program will feature a presentation by David Baker, Farm Transition Specialist with the Beginning Farmer Center
By Julie Ann Madden
Have unexplained things happened to somebody in a building? A loud thud. A click. Footsteps going down a hallway.
“That’s enough to get me inside a building,”
By Julie Ann Madden
A new pumper truck was removed from Akron’s 2014-2015 budget and replaced with the 2014 Reed Street Project and a new city sweeper.
The 2015 Plymouth County Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) Grant applications are available to be picked up in the Plymouth County Auditor’s Office at 215 Fourth Ave. SE, or are available on line at www.co.plymouth.ia.us to download.
By Julie Ann Madden
At a pretrial status hearing Friday, a new trial date was set for Jonathan Neunaber, 44, Akron, who has been charged with killing his mother in June 2014.
The conference comes to the Sioux City Convention Center on Jan. 30 and 31, marking twenty years of celebrating childhood by offering professional development opportunities to Siouxland early childhood educators.
Centering on Centers is one of
Akron driver rear-ends vehicle
At 5:12 p.m., Dec. 29, a two-vehicle accident occurred just north of Iowa Highway 12 and County Road K-18 South.
According to Plymouth County
According to Plymouth County sheriff’s reports, on Jan. 1 at 1:14 a.m., the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Office arrested Kelley Marvin Kuester, age 17 of Sioux City for Possession of Marijuana – second offense.
Kuester was a passenger
By Steve Peterson
Sharp shooting from the three-point arc gained Akron-Westfield a double-digit lead against Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn and clutch free-throw shooting allowed the Westerners to win, 63-57 in a War Eagle Conference game Jan. 23 in Marcus.
by Steve Peterson
Akron-Westfield’s wrestling team gained two dual match wins against neighboring schools on Senior Night, beating Alcester-Hudson, 66-9 and West Sioux, 48-19 on Jan. 20.
The Westerners’ lone
By Steve Peterson
Two place winners paced the Akron-Westfield wrestling team’s efforts at the Herb Irgens Invitational hosted by Odeboldt Arthur Battle Creek Ida Grove in Ida Grove Jan. 23 and 24.
By Steve Peterson
A 15-3 run to close the game led Akron-Westfield to a 60-50 boys’ basketball non-conference win against Alcester-Hudson, S.D., in Alcester Jan. 20.
A-W trailed 47-45 with
by Steve Peterson
The No. 45 was the magic one for Akron-Westfield girls’ basketball team in back-to-back wins last week.
The Lady Westerners, coming
Do you want to be an athletic coach?
By taking a four-course sequence of classes you can earn a coaching authorization, which will certify you to become a head or assistant coach in any sport, without
By Steve Peterson
Akron-Westfield sophomore Skyler Briggs rallied to beat Abraham Anzua of MOC-Floyd Valley, 9-7, in the 113-pound championship at Boyden-Hull-Rock Valley’s Nighthawk Invitational Jan. 17.
Briggs trailed Anzua
By Steve Peterson
Both Akron-Westfield and West Sioux were seeking a .500 record when the two neighbors clashed in a War Eagle Conference boys ‘basketball game Jan. 13 at A-W.
By Steve Peterson
West Sioux girls used defensive pressure and quickness to dominate the final three quarters and gained an easy 55-28 War Eagle Conference basketball win against Akron-Westfield Jan. 13.
Football
In January, it was announced that Akron-Westfield would stay in Class A and be in District No. 2 along with West Sioux, Alta-Aurelia, Lawton-Bronson, and Woodbury Central, who are coming back from the old District No.
On Jan. 19, Akron Lions Club members presented Plymouth County Conservation Service Naturalist Victoria DeVos $500 to put toward new playground equipment at the Hillview Recreation Area. From left: Lions Lawrence Maynard,
By Julie Ann Madden
Akron’s newest pastor is a small-town girl, raised on an Iowa farm about two hours east of Akron.
Performers have been chosen for next month’s Akron Opera House comedy production, “Contempt of Court.”
They will be Carissa Jacobs, judge; Jessica Kirkendall and Doug Olson, attorneys; Mark Philips, the bailiff, and Dave Olson portrays multiple
Wonder what the ‘big rig’ was doing in Akron on Sunday afternoon? Anderson Trucking was hauling equipment, made in Pennsylvania, to the Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada. Escort vehicles were needed due to its size. The solid steel
Doug Olson, Akron Opera House president and his actors are busy at work preparing the next show, “Contempt of Court” by David Landau.
Fans of court television will get a chance to experience a peoples night
“You Will Never See Any God,” a collection of writings by the late Ervin Krause, an Akron Class of 1948 alumnus, is available at the Akron Public Library. His brother and sister-in-law, Marlene and
Marvin and Alyce Toben of Westfield, Iowa celebrated 50 years of marriage on Thanksgiving Day with a family dinner at home. On Saturday evening the family went to Bev’s on the River.
Alison “Ali” Virginia Robertson of Chestertown, Maryland and James “Mike” Michael Small II of Laurel, Delaware were married Sunday, June 29, 2014 at five o’clock in the afternoon in Rehoboth Beach, Del., with Robert Robles of
Not many limousines stop at Spink Cafe but a group holding its Christmas Party arrived in style Friday evening Jan. 8 (above). Not only did they arrive in style, the group traveled over 150
Eric and Joann Hedeby were married Jan. 8, 1955, at Union Creek Lutheran Church, rural Akron. They have four children, Erica Diediker, Greta Carolus, Rickard Hedeby, and Ingrid Berlin, their spouses, 11 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. The above
