On May 1, the Board of Supervisors approved the termination of the IT Director, citing a cost-benefit analysis as justification for outsourcing IT services to Solutions under the so-called “gold ...

Our nation’s safety net shouldn’t be strained by subsidizing the lifestyles of the self-sufficient. Yet, too many of the idle rich are living high off the hog, collecting government checks for not ...

Winterset Ballet and Dance Studio presented their spring productions, The Princess and the Frog ballet and The Greatest Showman, on Friday and Saturday at the Henry C. Miller Auditorium in the ...

Year in Review: a final look at 2023 We take a last look at the top news stories around the Madison County community from 2023. October Winterset High ...

The 2025 John Wayne Birthday Celebration will take place this Friday, May 23, and Saturday, May 24. Presented by the John Wayne Birthplace and Museum, this year’s festivities commemorate the tenth ...

Members of the Winterset Lions Club are pictured next to their second Cardiac Restart Lifesaving AED installation, located at the concession building between the softball and baseball fields behind ...

Senate Agriculture Committee Members Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) reintroduced the Federal Agriculture Risk Management Enhancement and Resilience (FARMER) Act to strengthen crop ...

The Husky boys and girls both competed at this week’s Raccoon River Conference golf meets, with the boys at Carrol Country Club and girls at Ballard Golf and Country Club. Winterset’s boys took home ...

Madison County Auditor Teri Kaczinski’s resignation was received and filed on Tuesday afternoon during the Madison County Board of Supervisors meeting. This comes after Kaczinski’s dismissal of her ...

It also suggests that the birds of an Iowa spring have been catching my notice, which is true. I’ve seen . . . A pheasant, resplendent in courting colors, flushed by my passing tread. A heron, stately ...

Kathleen Rush held the big red scissors last week as she cut the red ribbon to celebrate the new location for CRISP (Community Resources In Service to People) at 113 S. John Wayne Dr. in Winterset.

50 YEARS AGO Wayne Davis, Dan Wooldridge, and Craig Morris went to Boys State. Husky Teresa Beeler hurled a softball nearly 195 ft. won a conference title. Louise and Brown Agnew celebrated their ...