07 February 2018

Letter to the Editor: Thanks to Red Kettle supporters, businesses


By Floyd County Salvation Army Board of Directors On behalf of our board we would like to thank all of you that contributed and volunteered to the 2...
Guest View: Too much manure, and not enough political will

Guest View: Too much manure, and not enough political will


By Mark Kuhn, Supervisor, Floyd County I was one of 12 legislators who met to draft a bill overhauling Iowa’s confined livestock regulations in Feb...
01 February 2018

City Notes: Floyd County manufacturing employment breaks 1,700


By Tim Fox, Executive Director, Charles City Area Development Corporation The latest Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages published by Iowa Work...
 
24 January 2018

Letter to the Editor: Are we seeing our society falling apart?


By David Payne, Charles City We are hearing more and more individuals accusing high profile people of being sexual predators. They are from the lowes...
11 January 2018

City Notes: Budget and other items face council in the new year


By Jerry Joerger, Charles City Councilman First of all, welcome aboard, Mayor Dean Andrews. We, as a council, as well as the city staff, look ...
04 January 2018

City Notes: New year, new mayor, and now new City Notes


By Dean Andrews, Charles City Mayor The powers that be wasted no time in getting me into the City Notes schedule. I guess they figure, might as well ...
 

GUEST VIEW: Developing decision skills among dead bodies and YouTube


By Kate Hayden, khayden@charlescitypress.com I want to talk about a YouTube video your kids and grandkids might have seen this week. The premise is o...
20 December 2017

City Notes: Remember the importance of shopping locally


By Tim Fox, Executive Director, Charles City Area Development Corp. The Iowa Department of Revenue has released its “Retail Sales and Use Tax Annua...

Column: Happy Christmas to all, and to all, a good write


By Kate Hayden, khayden@charlescitypress.com A $29,000 degree and a distinguished two-year career in community journalism later, I’ve learned Iâ€...
 
14 December 2017

City Notes: Charles City: A place to build bridges


By Jim Erb, Charles City mayor After 22 years of writing articles for this column, the time has come to move on to the next chapter. First of all I o...