16 October 2017
Volunteer Center celebrates fall with Harvest Fest

Volunteer Center celebrates fall with Harvest Fest


The Volunteer Center was bustling with people on Saturday for its first-ever Harvest Festival. Inside, many hands kept busy cutting up apples to g...
15 October 2017
Serving the community

Serving the community


By Thomas Nelson, tnelson@charlescitypress.com The Charles City Fire Department hosted a pancake breakfast fundraiser Sunday morning. The pancak...
14 October 2017
Retired law enforcers paint ’60s scene

Retired law enforcers paint ’60s scene


A small-town cop stopping to chat with a neighbor doing yard work or letting a local man who’s had too many sleep one off in a jail cell before ...
 
The Bike Works celebrates 10 years

The Bike Works celebrates 10 years


Silver City is a cycling town and what better time of year to bike than fall. That’s what Dave Baker, founder of the Bike Works and organizer of...
13 October 2017
Judge says ‘stand your ground’ law won’t apply in Williams trial

Judge says ‘stand your ground’ law won’t apply in Williams trial


By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com The state's new "stand your ground" law will not apply to the murder trial of Antoine Williams, the...
50-50 in 2020 calls local women to step up for office

50-50 in 2020 calls local women to step up for office


By Kate Hayden, khayden@charlescitypress.com What pushes women to run for elected office? Morningside College professor Valerie Hennings asked a g...
 
The Addams Family: Crazier than yours, and now onstage

The Addams Family: Crazier than yours, and now onstage


By Kate Hayden, khayden@charlescitypress.com They're creepy and they're kooky. Mysterious and spooky. The family we all love to wonder at is c...
12 October 2017
Witness says he saw last shots fired in Charles City murder case

Witness says he saw last shots fired in Charles City murder case


By Bob Steenson, bsteenson@charlescitypress.com A key witness in the first-degree murder trial of Antoine Williams on Thursday said he saw William...
First Floyd County visit on Monday for 2020 presidential election

First Floyd County visit on Monday for 2020 presidential election


By Kate Hayden, khayden@charlescitypress.com The first primary campaign for president is already underway. Democratic candidate and U.S. Rep. ...
 
CC man arrested after high-speed chase in Mason City

CC man arrested after high-speed chase in Mason City


By Kate Hayden, khayden@charlescitypress.com A Charles City man is in the Cerro Gordo County Jail after allegedly leading police on a chase exceeding...