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Monthly Archives: September 2018

Photographer Poggensee hails the hummingbirds as they start migration

IDA GROVE, Iowa, Sept. 17, 2018 — Photographer Don Poggensee says in his observations of birds in Iowa, he notices that the hummingbirds are usually the first to start moving south, “as early as the end of August or the start of September.”  So he took a few photos of ruby-throated hummingbirds, “our most common…

September 29, 2018 in Feature Photo.

One old Catholic’s view as the sex abuse scandal rocks his church’s future

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Aug. 19, 2018 – I’ve long said that one of the things I like most about being a Catholic is that the church is slow to bend to the social whims of the moment, including my own. That has probably helped Catholicism survive for centuries in the many very different…

September 22, 2018 in Out in Greene County, Iowa.

Shriver Farms here is one of Iowa’s largest organic ag operations

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Aug. 21, 2018 — In late summer about five years ago, Scott Shriver and his crew from Shriver Farms had most of us in Greene County stumped about what the “new” crop  was that they had coming up in a very visible field along Iowa Highway 4.  First there were…

September 20, 2018 in Out in Greene County, Iowa.

Our town of Cooper has always loved sports and our sports stories, too

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Aug. 13, 2018 – Inspired by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit examining the impact of sports on American culture – which is now on display at the Greene County Historical Museum in Jefferson – I have been diving into the history of sports in our little town of Cooper here in…

September 15, 2018 in OFFENBLOGGER.

“…something special about a baseball park on a summer night”

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER STORM LAKE, Iowa, Aug. 5, 2018 — The second season of the summertime Pioneer Collegiate Baseball League came to a crazy end — a crazy-fun end — here Friday night. Albert Lea’s Lakers clinched the championship with a 12-11 victory over defending champion Storm Lake’s Whitecaps. It was a storybook worst-to-first reversal…

September 13, 2018 in OFFENBLOGGER.

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