OSAGE -- Surf Ballroom favorites Denny and The DC Drifters and Dave “Swanee” Swanson of The Whitesidewalls will both perform at 2 p.m Sunday at Osage VFW Post 7920.
In a hayfield, on the south edge of my father’s farm, a vine hangs in loose tangles from an oak. It’s been there long enough I cannot remember what is tree and what is parasite. They have always been joined together. Something would seem wrong if I walked out there one day to see the vine mi…
Chuck Souder, throughout his time in the Peace Corps and the U.S. Navy, has visited nearly 40 nations. Even so, Souder has not gone too far, as he now lives on the farm where he grew up. It is a long way from India to rural Rudd.
Within three generations, my male ancestors and a sibling experienced three of the most pivotal events of the 20th century in utero. My grandfather was gestating in his mother’s womb during the Great Flu, and he was born in December 1918. My father was in utero when they dropped the atomic b…
Across America, green ash trees are dying. It begins from the top down, seemingly, as leaves fall or simply never grow from the highest branches, leaving a ring of foliage around the bottom of the tree, which will soon enough fall away, also. They look stripped. The infection is evident in t…
This fall, four graduates will be visiting Mitchell County to celebrate being recognized as Osage Distinguished Alumni. One of those is Kristin Hunziker.
He pleaded guilty to the charges in May.
No one likes a rat. So said Ron Sandvik, one of my mentors at the University of Northern Iowa. And he did not like cats, he added, which is important to my “Garden Road” column this week. Woe unto the lawyers, Christ declared long before Sandvik. Regulation can grow to an extremism that woul…
I have been reading the psychologist and philosopher Carl Jung’s work recently, and I am under its spell.
He has been on the air for 45 years, 40 of them in North Iowa.
Fox River Mills in Osage will close its doors after 125 years of operation, idling 105 employees. The company opened in 1900.
In 2025, Barb Schwamman celebrated her 10th year as superintendent of the Osage Community School District. She stays busy, as she is also superintendent of the Riceville Community School District.
I did not feel I had too much to talk about this week, so I’ll talk about myself, which is easy to do, considering I’ve lived with myself since I was born. My birthday has passed, but I remember more birthdays than just this year’s. My children of advancing ages have always helped me celebrate.
Our farm six miles south of Corydon is where promenade began for my family. The pines and red maple that wrapped around the northeast side of the windbreak served as a dark green backdrop for formal pictures. We couldn’t afford anything fancy. My mother was the photographer.
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