By CHUCK OFFENBURGER CARROLL, Iowa, August 4, 2017 — Two months and two nights ago, the Storm Lake Whitecaps and the Carroll Merchants faced each other in the opening game of the new Pioneer Collegiate Baseball League right here in front of an overflow crowd of 1,100 fans in historic Merchants Park. Tonight, the same…
IDA GROVE, Iowa, Aug. 2, 2017 — Photographer Don Poggensee has had a busy summer, shooting around the state and beyond, but recently he was at home here in northwest Iowa. So he “spent some time recording the giant swallowtail butterflies as they work over the purple coneflowers” in Moorehead Park, located just west of…
By CARLA OFFENBURGER OXFORD, Ohio, July 17, 2017 — Connections with our grandkids are made different ways, aren’t they? Lindsay Offenburger, 10, and I share a love for reading and our connection appears to be books. I’ve been filling her book shelves since before she could read, and she has a great collection in her…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER STORM LAKE, Iowa, May 24, 2017 — Back to campus. While the Cullens, publishers of the Storm Lake Times, have been in New York City collecting their recently-announced Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, they asked a few old pals from journalism if we’d help fill-up an edition of the Times in their absence. And…
By CARLA OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, July 21, 2017 — In early June I wrote that I had reached the 55-day mark on my oral chemo I started back in April for my adenoid cystic carcinoma cancer. And on July 11, I reached 90 days — the mark that brought on a new CT scan and…