Alton News

While many national chains are saying their outlook for the holiday shopping season is grim, Siouxland consumers and stores are convinced it will still be a happy holiday.

A Littleton, Colo., woman was injured Saturday when she lost control of the vehicle she was driving two miles north of Alton.

A Russell, Minn., man was injured Thursday when the semi truck he was a passenger in struck a cow.

This quilted wall hanging titled "Log Cabin with Flowers" is one of several by Hildred Vander Weide of Sioux Center currently on display at the Arts Center.

Two sisters were hit by a pickup truck as they crossed a highway in Sioux Center.

Virginia Templeton, right, of Alton, talks with the Challenger's conductor, Reed Jackson, left, about the days when her husband, Floyd Templeton, used to be an engineer on locomotives like this one.

Brenden Fisch, 4, of Remsen, with his grandpa Joe Fisch, cheers for the Challenger as it chugged into Le Mars Wednesday for a stop on its tour from St.

A drive that takes 45 minutes took me 55 Saturday morning. And a 25-minute run lasted 44.

Thelma R. Broek, 83, of Sioux Center died Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at the Sioux Center Community Hospital.

Memorial services were held Saturday at 11a.m. at Bethel Christian Reformed Church with the Rev. Duane Tinklenberg officiating. Interment was held prior to the memorial service in Memory Gardens Cemetery of Sioux Center.

The Broek Family prefers memorials be directed to Bethel Christian Reformed Church or the Sioux Center Community Hospital Foundation.

Thelma Rose Broek was born July 20, 1925 in Grand Rapids, Mich. to Casey and Sarah (Douma) Heyman. Her family moved to Hull when she was a young child. She received her education in Hull and graduated from the Hull Community High School.

Sophia M. Dykhuizen, age 99, of Sheldon passed away on Sunday, August 3, 2008, at Sanford Sheldon Senior Care in Sheldon.

Funeral services were held on Thursday, August 7, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. at the Andringa Funeral Home Sheldon Funeral Service in Sheldon with the Rev. Marcus Moffitt officiating.  Burial was held in the Sheridan Township Cemetery in Boyden.

Sophia Marie Dykhuizen was born May 5, 1909, in Bunnik, Netherlands, to John and Antonia (Burggraaf) Vander Lee. She came to America with her family at the age of five. They settled on a farm near Alton. They later moved to Nebraska, where they lived for three years. They then returned to the Boyden area.

State investigators say overheated equipment is the likely cause of an explosion and fire at a grain coop in Alton, IA this summer.

Two years ago, a ban on all abortions, in South Dakota, failed at the ballot box.

Despite every other piece of bad economic news, falling oil prices have been a bright spot.

Thirty-six-year-old Jody O'Keefe had been scheduled to be tried Tuesday for first-degree murder for the January 24th death of 32-year-old Samuel Toliver of Le Mars.

Plane crash injures two in Wisconsin Falcons draw national attention This Friday will be the first home football game for A-P after the May 25th tornado.

Demolition crews set the wrecking ball to work Wednesday, knocking down one of six massive concrete silos at Midwest Farmers Co-op's Alton facility, starting from the inside out.

ORANGE CITY, IOWA n A new day care and preschool will receive its first children on Tuesday on the campus of the Orange City Area Health System hospital, just off state Highway 10 in Orange City.

Dave Dreeszen Journal business editor ORANGE CITY -- The Orange City Area Daycare and Preschool will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new facility at 5 p.m. Thursday at 1103 Lincoln Circle, just north of ...

The buffalo aren't being cooperative. Farm manager Devin DeJong hollers at the four female yearlings, trying to stir them into moving a little closer to the 7-foot-tall electric fence that surrounds their ...

THE VICTIMS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS THE DRIVER OF A CAR, 52-YEAR OLD STEVEN BUH OF MARION, AND HIS PASSENGER, 58-YEAR OLD DONALD LAKE OF OMAHA.