By Kim Fickett

A new addition of services for Akron residents has begun.

Curbside recycling is now available for all residents who would like to take part.

By Kim Fickett

The Plymouth County Board of Supervisors received no written or verbal comments regarding a 2024-2025 budget amendment at its Tuesday, May 27 meeting.

By Kim Fickett

Rainy weather around Memorial Day may have delayed the opening of the Akron Family Aquatic Center, but not by much. 

It was only a few days after the targeted opening that the community pool opened for the 2025 season.

By Kim Fickett

For more than 40 years, Akron has hosted a farmers market, and this year will be no different.

This year’s event opens on Wednesday, June 18, from 5-7 p.m. at the Akron City Park.

By Kim Fickett

The Akron City Council voted unanimously to approve paying three of its residents impacted by the 2024 summer floods money for their properties.

Wanda Jean Philips: Wife, Mother, Educator, Adventurer and Enthusiastic lover of life; 93 of Akron, Iowa passed away Monday, December 2, 2024, at Via Christi Villages in Wichita, Kansas.

Michael Anthony Pracht, 66 passed away May 27, 2025 at his home, Larned.

He was born August 2, 1958 in Denver, Colorado; the son of Gilbert E. and Bonnie Lee Urban Pracht.  A Larned resident for the last 10 years, moving from Hays; he was a truck driver.

Thomas ‘Tommy’ Toben, 28 of Westfield, Iowa, passed away unexpectedly at his home on Sunday, June 1, 2025.
Services are pending with Rexwinkel Funeral Home of Akron. Expressions of sympathy may be expressed to the family through www.rexwinkelfh.com.