COOPER, Iowa, September 2013 — As we launch the new Offenburger.com, another of our new features is offering a poem here on a regular basis. We hope most of these are written by you, our readers. Carla Offenburger, avid gardener and poet, begins the series with a delightful poem telling how her thinking changes about…
COOPER, Iowa, October 9, 2013 — The Eva Leonard story returns to a local stage this weekend (Oct. 12 and 13) when the Greene County Historical Society presents a musical review of the life of the Grand Junction native who became one of the nation’s major theatrical stars of the 1920s and ’30s. Nicole Friess…
“As summer ends and fall begins, we see a real change in colors all around us,” says Poggensee, the roaming photographer from Ida Grove in northwest Iowa. “I have pulled a few images that I have taken while traveling our state. The beauty of creation is all encompassing, so take time now, to enjoy the…
This is one of our favorite Guest Columns we’ve ever run on Offenburger.com. The author is a lifetime friend of ours who grew up in Chuck’s hometown of Shenandoah, Iowa, and spent his career in radio – first as an on-air personality, later in sales and marketing. King says that what happened to him on…