Top Stories

by Bob Beach

The Allamakee County Conservation Board (ACCB) will host an informational meeting about the Driftless Area Education and Visitor Center planned for the Columbus Bridge property Thursday, January 15 from 5:30-7:30  p.m. at the Kerndt Brothers Savings Bank Community Center in Lansing, located at 391 Main Street.
Staff from Fehr Graham Engineering will be present to discuss site planning, Martin Gardner Architecture will present on the building design, and Split Rock Studios will discuss interpretive displays proposals. The public is encouraged to attend.

by Kelli Boylen
freelance writer

This uniformly-round ice formation was found floating in Bear Creek in Allamakee County Monday, January 5 by Kenneth Larson of Dorchester. The floating ice mass was estimated at approximately 20 feet in diameter and was rotating slowly in place as the current of the creek flowed by. Online research indicates that ice circles, such as the one pictured above, are formed when surface ice gathers in the center of a body of water rather than the edges. A slow moving stream current can create a slow turning eddy, or swirling current, which rotates the ice mass and grinds down its edges against the surrounding ice to form the uniformly-round ice circle. Photo courtesy of Kenneth Larson.
 

Veterans Memorial Hospital physicians and staff announce that the First Baby of the Year Contest for 2015 was won by twins, Allie Marie and Jaxson Thomas Roger, born Friday, January 2. They are the children of Michelle Scott and Mitchel Rogers. Michelle is originally from Postville, but she and Mitchel currently reside in Cascade. Michelle chose to still deliver her twins at Veterans Memorial Hospital with Dr. Benjamin Nesseim, just as she did with her youngest child, Kayden.
Allie Marie was born at 7:59 p.m. and weighed three pounds, four ounces and measured 16 inches long, and Jaxson Thomas was born at 8:00 p.m. weighing three pounds, 14 ounces and measured 17.5 inches long. Twins Allie and Jaxson join their big sister, Cheyanne, and their big brother, Kayden, at home. Grandparents of the newborn twins are Tonya and Ricky Delatorre of Postville and John and Annette Rogers of Cascade.

The items below summarize the top news stories that appeared in The Standard during the last six months of 2014.

July
During its regular meeting Tuesday, July 1, the Allamakee County Board of Supervisors met with Allamakee County Sheriff Clark Mellick, who introduced McKenzie Sebastian of Postville and asked for the Board's approval to appoint her as a Deputy Sheriff. The Board unanimously approved the appointment and Mellick noted that Sebastian is the first female Deputy Sheriff in Allamakee County.

by Bob Beach

by Bob Beach

The items below summarize the top news stories that appeared in The Standard during the first six months of 2014.

January
Veterans Memorial Hospital physicians and staff announced that Kinsley Ann Bosley, daughter of Joyce and Reed Bosley of Waukon, was the winner of the First Baby of the Year Contest at Veterans Memorial Hospital for 2014. Kinsley Ann was born January 5 at 6:06 a.m. at Veterans Memorial Hospital.

by Susan Cantine-Maxson

The downtown area of Lansing has been designated as a National Historic District and placed on the National Register of Historic Places, a division of the National Park Service. The National Park Service criteria for designation states, “The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association.” The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the nation's historic places worthy of preservation.
An official celebration for the designation will be held in Lansing in May, 2015, during National Historic Preservation month as established by the National Trust. The official area of the designation includes 100–401 Main Street, one block north and south on Front and 2nd streets, and 190 John Street.