The games in Carroll Rotary Club’s annual Field of Teams Softball Tournament are mostly for fun. The score that means the most is the tournament’s fundraising success for St. Anthony Regional Hospice.

ROCKWELL CITY: Calhoun County is poised for business growth and welcomes Riley Bleam as the new executive director of the Calhoun County Economic Development Corporation.

COON RAPIDS: Kamryn Lesle, a 2020 IKM-Manning High School graduate currently majoring in animal science at Iowa State University, was named Carroll County Fair queen Thursday night.

A Black umpire angered some spectators of a recent high school baseball game in Coon Rapids when he kneeled during the national anthem.

The COVID-19 pandemic may have hit the brakes on RPM Club’s car show last year, but organizers are back on the road, returning with their 17th annual show on Saturday, July 24, at Swan Lake State Park eastside shelterhouse.

COON RAPIDS: Farmland owned by the agriculturally innovative Garst family, who famously hosted Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cold War in 1959, will be sold by auction.

LAKE CITY: A tornado struck Lake City about 4 p.m. Wednesday and caused widespread damage to trees, along with some buildings.

The 23rd annual St. Anthony Golf Classic, held June 28 at the Carroll Country Club, raised a record-breaking $77,362.

Batiks with mountain-landscape scenes.

The Carnegie Project will host local artist Chad Elliott in a free-will-donation event to help save the Rockwell City Carnegie Library.

The COVID-19 crisis certainly led to changes in the way longtime vocal and piano teacher Cindy Seastrom interacted with her students.

Last month, when LeeAnn Musfeldt stepped inside Maple River Township School No. 5 for the first time in 74 years, she was impressed.

In west central Iowa, there’s really nothing else that compares. During the next two weekends, two extreme athletic competitions — one on wheels and the other on feet — will take place at Whiterock Conservancy.

All Strings Attached Orchestra Studio’s patriotic concert at Merchants Park baseball stadium Sunday evening hit a home run.

Five years ago, Accura Healthcare opened its doors to the local families and residents of Carroll with a newly-established facility. The establishment celebrated its 5th anniversary with a family-oriented get-together on June 16.

The City of Carroll and the Carroll United Soccer Club recently hosted the first Kick It Up soccer tournament Saturday at the Carroll Middle School soccer fields.

JEFFERSON: Three decades that changed the world — and our little patch of it — are featured in a new exhibit, “Dig it! The 1950s, ’60s & ’70s,” that opens on Saturday, July 3, at Greene County Historical Museum in Jefferson.

A 6-year-old Dension girl who had been missing since Friday night has been found and is safe, Crawford County Emergency Management just announced.

An online fundraiser gained more than $16,000 in donations in a single day to benefit the employees of Dobson Pipe Organ Builders in Lake City, which was hit by a major fire this month.

It may be a short 24 notes, taking approximately just 45 seconds, but taps is one of the most powerful pieces in music.

Merchants Park baseball stadium again will be All Strings Attached Orchestra Studio’s field of dreams.

Area softball players and philanthropists Tad and Katie Decker, Kevin Nepple, and Katie and Kyle Cornelius donated the proceeds from the First Annual Carroll SuperDraft to the St. Anthony Foundation this month to benefit patients of the cancer center at St. Anthony Regional Hospital.

Carroll grad Steph Copley wears many hats: deputy workers’ compensation commissioner, journalist, mom, running addict and sports fanatic.

Garden View Assisted Living, on the St. Anthony campus in Carroll, Iowa has received the 2021 Bronze – Commitment to Quality Award, which is awarded by the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living.

AMES: The Landus Board of Directors has appointed Bill Northey to a one-year term as an outside director, eligible for renewal up to a maximum of three years.

LAKE VIEW: Kicking off the Lake View Stone Pier 2021 Summer Concert Series June 5 for its 11th anniversary, Iowa band The Pork Tornadoes performed with opener artist Joshua Sinclair on the historic Stone Pier stage.

JEFFERSON: Landus will be prepared to accept grain from area farmers and will boost safety measures in the wake of a May explosion and ongoing small, but contained, fires at its Jefferson operation, the cooperative’s president and CEO Matt Carstens said in an open community forum last week.

For 19-year-old Taydem Shoesmith, her love for acting began on the stage of Carroll High School, performing in her first one-act play.

The first installment of the 2021 Live + Local concert series offered attendees three hours of live music, good weather and fun.

The Rev. Cindy Johnson, pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Carroll, emphasized in her featured address in the Memorial Day ceremony Monday at Carroll City Cemetery that our country is the United States of America and it’s one nation under God, indivisible.

What business is Carroll County’s best place to work?

Parker Jones, a sophomore at the University of Iowa, joined the Times Herald this week for a summer internship that will focus on arts and entertainment.

The ringing of the schoolhouse bell piques our imagination as we think of the early country schools of yesteryear. You can almost hear the sound of the bell as the teacher rang it energetically or pulled on the rope of the bell by the entry door. The bell called young children to class every…

Carroll County Historical Society is making Sunday, June 6, school day.

Main Street Coon Rapids has been designated as an accredited Main Street program for meeting rigorous performance standards.

Amber Mohmand, a junior at Iowa State University, joined the Times Herald this week for a summer internship that will focus on courts and crime.

Three nurses at Stewart Memorial Community Hospital, cited for their compassionate patient care and great clinical skills, recently received the DAISY Award.

Carroll Community Chorus will sing at All Strings Attached Orchestra Studio’s concert on Sunday, June 27, at Merchants Park baseball stadium.