Indianola News

Holiday cookies are delicious and can be fun to make, but when time is running out, the mixing and kneading and baking that it takes to make a cookie can seem like a tedious task.

Former Indianola City Attorney John Hoyman allegedly spent six years choosing names at random from a phone book to put on invoices that then were used to overbill the city by nearly $90,000 because he did not think the names mattered, according to court documents.

The snow is done and now the cold conditions will set in. Wind chill values will stay between -10 and -15 below this afternoon across Central Iowa.

Maxine was born to Stanley J. and Mabel Thornsberry Keyes in Eldon, Mo., on March 29, 1919.

On Nov. 14, 1944, Doc married the love of his life, Betty Darlene Streeter, and together they celebrated 69 years of marriage.

Funeral service was at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, at St. Catherine's Catholic Church in Oyens with Rev.

<![CDATA[The Des Moines Register editorial board is bestowing a rose each day during December in recognition of all the good that is found in Iowa. (Send your rose recommendations to editorial writer Rox Laird at roxlaird@dmreg.com.) -- Randy Evans, Opinion editor A rose to Mark Koskamp for providing heavenly inspiration at the Trinity United Presbyterian Church in Indianola for three decades. Koskamp's contribution to the spiritual celebration at Trinity is at the keyboard of the church's Opus 17 Dobson pipe organ. He has been playing the organ at Trinity since November 1983, and the church celebrated the anniversary recently with (what else?) a potluck dinner and a recital where Koskamp played some of his favorite church music from the likes of Mendelssohn and Buxtehude. Koskamp learned to play the organ 50 years ago when he was about 4 or 5. His mother taught him to play the piano and an elementary music teacher started him on the organ. "It's like using the old manual typewriters versus using a computer keyboard," he told the Indianola Record-Herald.

Decades before an iconic sculpture park, a massive summer arts festival and sleek artists' lofts on downtown Des Moines' western edge, artists found a harbor in the building at 304 15th St. In 1949, F.W. Fitch Co., a multimillion-dollar manufacturer of soap and other personal-care products, ceased operations at its familiar set of buildings near ... (more)

For most comedians, breaking into comedy is a slow, often painful process. You build up a set through trying and failing at open mics, plucking gems as they get laughs and discarding the jokes that land with a thud.

The Indianola School Board will take input and vote Monday, Dec. 9, on whether to move from its current 180-day school calendar to a plan that tracks the school year by hours instead.

Iowans have always taken great pride in their families, but an Indianola woman has most everyone beat.

How excited are 22 Simpson College students about the prospect of performing with the Des Moines Metro Opera, under the direction of the legendary Dr. Robert L. Larsen? They were willing to cut short their Thanksgiving holiday break to rehearse.

Melvin was born June 16, 1932, in Jasper County, Iowa, to Raymond and Edna Thomas.

With her paychecks being eaten up by child care, Lacy McGriff couldn't wait for her now 6-year-old son to start school.

When Roy Hampton was a boy his favorite toy was a teddy bear. "It was a teddy bear like you haven't seen.

The Outside Scoop's goal is to begin sourcing its milk from a single, micro dairy farm in central Iowa and obtain additional milk processing equipment to further the quality of its ice cream.

Bonneitta was always active in her church both in Albia and Indianola. In Albia she was president of the United Methodist Women and belonged to Queen Esther Circle.

Downing Construction was named Business of the Year at the first Excellence in Business Warren County Awards Event, which was presented by the Warren County Economic Development Corporation.

Des Moines Metro Opera founding director Robert Larsen has come out of semi-retirement to stage-direct "Amahl and the Night Visitors," Dec. 6 and 7 at Hoyt Sherman Place, four years after his last directing turn at the company's summer festival in Indianola.

Simpson College students have made up less than 1 percent of the total votes cast in four out of the six most recent elections in Indianola.