By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, May 15, 2015 — Lee T. Gobble had a great career, a long life, enviable business success, meaningful philanthropy, and lots of love from people around his hometown of Fairfield in southeast Iowa. But I’m also going to remember him for sneaking into the Rose Bowl as a hotdog vendor in…
IDA GROVE, Iowa, March 24, 2015 — They’re home now, and warm again, after another fantastic photo expedition to the interior of Alaska to see and shoot the “aurora borealis” spectacular light shows from close-up range. Don Poggensee, of Ida Grove, whose work you see often here at Offenburger.com, traveled March 10 to the 17th…
IDA GROVE, Iowa, May 5, 2015 — Suddenly, there they are right in front of you — a great egret, then a great blue herron and over there a white-faced ibis, all out at Moorehead Park Lake, just outside this northwest Iowa town. Around the community, the magnolias are in bloom, so are the crab apple trees and…