Bethany Carson
03/13/2018 - 3:40pm
Butler County’s Emergency Management Coordinator Mitch Nordmeyer is resigning as of March 31 to accept a position as State Training Officer with Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Nordmeyer, from Greene, has served the county since July of 2009.
“Mitch is going to be really hard to replace. I don’t think a lot of...
03/06/2018 - 6:38pm
Lori Uhlenhopp has offered custom framing, scrapbooking and gifts at Aplington Artworks for over 20 years.
In the past couple years, she has expanded to offer canvas painting parties for groups. She helps and instructs participants, and everyone adapts the design to create their own.
“It’s about a three-hour evening, and they get the...
02/27/2018 - 5:42pm
David and Joyce Dickes were chosen as Parkersburg’s 2018 Citizens of the Year and received a plaque recognizing their service to the community from the Chamber of Commerce at a banquet on Saturday, February 24.
“This couple has been caring, committed, dedicated, dependable, selfless and loyal to this community,” said Chamber of...
02/20/2018 - 5:30pm
“What is elegance? Soap and water!” Cecil Beaton once said.
And that’s a handcrafted elegance Angela Scanlan has spread across the state through her home business right here in Parkersburg since 2009.
Through her business, Windy Ridge: Handcrafted, Scanlan offers bars of shea butter body soap made from scratch.
She takes lye,...
02/13/2018 - 5:30pm
Why do youth join the Student Connection group in Aplington? It’s fun, and they get to learn about God, according to a recent poll.
It was 2001 when seven churches from Aplington, Parkersburg and Holland joined together under the guidance of T.
J. Hanken to form a non-denomination youth ministry that operates out of the old AMVET hall in...
