News
11/07/2025 - 2:32pm
The Monticello Elementary Walk-A-Thon hosted Oct. 24 by the Monticello Parent Teacher organization raised around $10,000, according to the hosts.
PTO Vice President and Walk-A-Thon Chair Whitney Kraus said she and her fellow organizers were...
Opinion
11/05/2025 - 1:40pm
Not surprisingly these days, free speech on college campuses is back in the headlines.
That makes it worthwhile to highlight the seven-page policy the Iowa Board of Regents wrote to proclaim how it values and protects freedom of expression at the...
Agriculture
11/05/2025 - 1:31pm
Temperatures across the state of Iowa were near the climatological normal, though precipitation was below average as parts of the state slid into dry conditions for the close of harvest season, according to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and...
Sports
Mary Grace Lyons races toward the finish during her runner-up finish at the 2025 state cross country meet on Oct. 31 at the Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge. (Photos by Kegan Arduser)
11/05/2025 - 1:38pm
Ending the 2025 cross country season on a high note, the Monticello boys squad, along with Panther girls qualifiers Mary Grace Lyons and Peyton Ries, took to the Lakeside Municipal Golf Course in Fort Dodge on Oct. 31 for the state meet.
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Obituaries
11/05/2025 - 2:05pm
June 15, 1958 – Oct. 27, 2025
Daniel Blunt died peacefully at his home on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025.
Funeral services weere held 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, at Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello with interment in Oakwood Cemetery. Friends called...
Sports Photo Gallery
Features
Heather Paddock (left) is owner of The Closet Swap consignment store. At right is her daughter Dori, who also works there. (Photos by Pete Temple)
06/18/2025 - 2:59pm
Whatever success Heather Paddock’s new consignment store is having, and will have, can be largely attributed to two factors.
First is her experience working in other consignment stores. Second, and perhaps more important, is the input she...
