Little Sioux News

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will acquire a conservation easement on nearly 1,700 acres of forested land along the western edge of the Loess Hills State Forest in Monona County.

Council discusses feasibility of hosting RAGBRAI 2010 After the required Public Hearing, Cherokee's City Council Tuesday night approved a resolution to submit an application for an Iowa Housing Fund Grant available to local governments to provide for owner-occupied housing rehabilitation for low and moderate income individuals and families in the ...

KCCI producer John Hoyem and news director Dave Busiek were in New York City accepting two national Edward R. Murrow Awards Monday night.

The Iowa DNR is hosting a meeting for the nine county representation of the Resource Enhancement and Protection or REAP program Tuesday night in Spencer.

The Depot Renovation, Inc. will be holding its eighth annual Fall Family Fest and Baking Contest on Saturday, Sept.

Boy Scouts from Troop 799 in Marseilles spent their Labor Day Weekend helping the Fire Department of New York City, the New York Says Thank You Foundation, and others rebuild the Little Sioux Scout Reservation in Little Sioux, Iowa.

Jeff Parness, the founder of New York Says Thank You , recently headed to Iowa to lend a hand at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch, which was destroyed last summer by a tornado that left four boys dead.

When the twin towers fell it took the lives of 343 firefighters and paramedics. Ever since, members of the New York City Fire Department honor those who died that day by volunteering.

The new chapel at the little Sioux Scout Ranch underwent some pretty big changes in its debut on Sunday.

"I tell people its not about 9/11, its about 9/12" is what Jeff Parness has to say about his foundation.

More than 20 Greensburg residents are spending their Labor Day weekend in Little Sioux, Iowa, helping to rebuild a Boy Scout camp damaged by a tornado in June 2009.

A chapel built by survivors, for survivors, like Sharon Thompson who lost her son to the tragic tornado.

Four boy scouts were killed and hundreds of acres damaged as a tornado last year hits a Boy Scout camp in western Iowa.

New York City firefighters who were the first at the scene on Sept. 11, 2001, were in Iowa Thursday helping rebuild a Boy Scout ranch leveled by a tornado.

Representative Steve King is putting his apron to help feed volunteers who are helping rebuild a Boy Scout camp destroyed by a tornado last summer.

A local Boy Scout who survived the tornado at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch helped rescue a 6-year-old boy who was found unconscious at the bottom of a motel swimming pool.

A local Boy Scout who survived the tornado at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch helped rescue a 6-year-old boy who was found unconscious at the bottom of a motel swimming pool.

A local Boy Scout who survived the tornado at the Little Sioux Scout Ranch helped rescue a 6-year-old boy who was found unconscious at the bottom of a motel swimming pool.

Cherokee County Soil & Water Conservation District recent tour participants are pictured at the Little Sioux structure in Willow 3. Photo contributed On Tuesday evening, July 21, about 30 members of the community participated in the Cherokee County Soil & Water Conservation District tour.

Before Sunday, the last time an Omaha Boy Scout performed CPR was after a 140-mph tornado barreled over a hill, flattening a cabin at Little Sioux Scout Ranch.