By Mary Riche DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 22, 2022 — I’m voting for Deidre DeJear, and I’m hopeful she will be the next Governor of Iowa. DeJear has been endorsed by the Des Moines Register, however, her endorsement by influential Janel Tyler, a registered Republican from Des Moines and a group of Janel’s Republican friends,…
JEFFERSON, Iowa, Oct. 29, 2022 — Friends in our town of Jefferson gathered at the country club on Sunday evening, Oct. 23, to give my bride Mary Riche and me a fantastic toast on our recent marriage and a welcome home to Greene County. It was a grand time, as you’ll see in these photos,…
By MARY RICHE DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 30, 2022 — “Do you play bridge?” she asked. She thought I might be more available since I was newly divorced. “Not really,” I answered. She suggested we have coffee instead, and that’s when Joy Corning and I began a special friendship that covered a lot of years,…
Photos by MARY RICHE/Text by CHUCK OFFENBURGER GRAND JUNCTION, Iowa, Sept. 23, 2022 — The Democratic Party seems alive and well in Greene County, judging by a turnout of 88 people at the party’s annual fundraising dinner here Thursday night. Inspired by a fiery speech from Deidre DeJear, the party’s nominee for governor, the crowd…
Photos by MARY RICHE/Text by CHUCK OFFENBURGER WAHPETON, Iowa, Sept. 22, 2022 — I felt like we’d almost checked-in at Grant Wood’s Art Colony in Stone City, back in the 1930s. But instead, it was the second annual “Okoboji Writers Retreat” that former Des Moines Register columnist and WHO radio talkshow host Julie Gammack and her…