Blairsburg News

Hubert Hill, 88, Ellsworth, died on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at the Israel Family Hospice House in Ames.

Perry Bernard Chamness, 79, of Blairsburg, Iowa passed away at his home in Blairsburg on Thursday, May 21, 2009.

Fire heavily damaged a machine shed and its contents in a wind-whipped farm east of Williams Tuesday afternoon.

Rows of wind turbines rotate in a corn field near Blairsburg, Iowa. From January to March, about three dozen developers started wind farms in 15 states, adding about twice the capacity that came on line last year during the same period, the American Wind Energy Association reported Tuesday.

Peterson Construction of Webster City was awarded the bid Thursday night for construction of an elementary addition and adjacent renovations at Northeast Hamilton Community School in Blairsburg.

Nickels and quarters dropped in slots across the state trickled back to Hamilton County Monday afternoon as the Enhance Hamilton County Foundation awarded more than $91,000 in grants generated by gambling revenues.

Paula Ann Johnson, 53, Belmond and Minnie Henrietta Johnson, 93, of Belmond died Sunday at around noon.

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Two people were killed and four more injured one of whom is reportedly still facing life-threatening injuries - in a crash during a brief but very dangerous snowfall late Sunday morning.

Here at home, some are praising the move by President Barack Obama to expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

An accident killed two people and injured seven outside of Blairsburg Sunday night.

Two people are dead and 6 others injured after a van and a sport utility vehicle crashed on U.S. Highway 69 in northern Iowa.

Two women died and seven others were injured in Sunday's accident on Highway 69 north of Blairsburg in Hamilton County, according to the Iowa State Patrol.

An accident killed two people and injured four outside of Blairsburg Sunday night.

A Kamrar native is among the list of five finalists for the job of Iowa Central Community College president.

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Iowa officials have given their OK to build a new school in Blairsburg. The School Budget Review Committee voted Monday to spend statewide sales tax money on the new school, despite shrinking enrollment.

School building projects in Iowa's smallest districts are now at the mercy of state officials for the first time under a new law that tries to protect taxpayers from wasteful spending.

W. Harold Greenfield, 83, of Webster City, died Friday, December 19, 2008 at the Southfield Wellness Community.

The Northeast Hamilton school board opened their December meeting with their first open negotiations meeting with the NEH Education Association.