As Iowa’s weather finally starts to align with the calendar with sunshine and warm temperatures, local golfers are getting their recreational seasons underway and hitting the links. However, the golf season is starting off a little differently this year amidst a global health pandemic.
Diamond Trail Golf Club, a nine-hole golf course tucked...
Jeff and Jodi Arment loaded up their Lynnville’s Smokin’ J’s BBQ on Wednesday, Apr. 22, this time headed to MercyOne Newton Medical Center and Park Centre to offer a free lunch for 300 of their doctors, nurses, and staff members working on the healthcare frontlines.
A few weeks ago, an anonymous generous donor contacted...
While 77 Iowa counties will see certain sectors reopen under Governor Kim Reynolds’ recent COVID-19 emergency declaration announced Monday, Apr. 27, Jasper and Poweshiek are among the 22 counties who won’t see many immediate changes.
In Governor Reynolds’ press conference on Monday, Apr. 27, she announced the phased-in...
Tens of thousands of couples across the U.S. have had to make changes to their wedding plans due to COVID-19. That includes three couples with local connections who were interviewed by the Hometown Press. These couples all chose to bump up their wedding dates and make the best of these unusual times. Despite...
A slice of home
By Simone Bates
When life gives you lemons…
At my grandparents’ home, there was a huge, sprawling, prickly lemon tree. It always smelled divinely fresh, filling the air as we played around it as children. My mum would send us outside with...
A trick shot by L-S boys bas-ketball coach Nick Hart-hoorn (shown in inset) swishes through the net of the basketball system at his parents’ house in Sully. Harthoorn shot the ball while positioned behind his parents’ garage (indicated with arrow).
Last week in the Hometown Press, we featured a trick shot...
At least the winter is over. This one was not as bad as many I remember.
The corner I live on has a bad slope on a curve. When we would get a big snow, every car that rounded that curve slid off the street.
I...