By CHUCK OFFENBURGER GREENFIELD, Iowa, March 5, 2014 — Iowa Public Television tonight premieres an hour-long documentary telling the story of one of the state’s most remarkable journalism families and their newspaper. They are the Sideys, of Greenfield, and the weekly newspaper they’ve owned and operated with love and professionalism for 125 years, the Adair…
LE CLAIRE, Iowa, March 2, 2014 — Photographer Don Poggensee recently was in this eastern Iowa town to check on the eagles wintering along the Mississippi River. “Below Lock & Dam No. 14, eagles seem to be everywhere,” he reported. Iowa is now one of the leading states for wintering bald eagles. And he provided…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Feb. 10, 2014 — We of the musical composing team of Mariska & Offenburger have given our all for ol’ Cottey College, the all-women’s school in Missouri owned by the all-women’s organization P.E.O. And we now turn over to the Cottey students, faculty and staff — as well as to…
IDA GROVE, Iowa, Feb. 6, 2014 —“It was good to see the Alta-Aurelia school students out on Moorehead Lake during a ‘First Experience’ ice fishing outing,” photographer Don Poggensee reported the other day, when he sent us some beautiful winter images of Iowa. “I understand that all the students were able to land fish, and what a great way to…
By CHUCK OFFENBURGER SHENANDOAH, Iowa, Feb. 12, 2014 — Kathryn Ketcham, 96-year-old mother of my lifelong friend and high school classmate Bruce Ketcham, died in late January. I’m really glad I was able to attend her funeral here in my ol’ hometown. You know, I can hardly think of her as “Kathryn.” Even though she never would…