St. Charles News

On Sunday, Dec. 13, the Calvary Baptist Church of St. Charles held their Christmas Program during their morning service.

Last Saturday the members of the Calvary Baptist Church of St. Charles held a farewell potluck for Ken & Sharon Crider & family.

The Truro Fire & Rescue Association held their monthly meeting on Nov. 19. The candy left over from Halloween was donated to the Lions Club for when they give candy away when Santa visits.

Kirby & Judie Seibel from Bismarck, N.D., visited in the home of Judie's brother and family, Dean & Mary Lou Parker.

The 60 Christmas seasons resident John Forni spent listening to children's wishes while wearing a white beard, red suit and shiny black shoes earned him this parenthetical note between his first and last names: Santa.

What I do: I manage the Great Western Bank branch on Des Moines' south side . I work with checking and savings accounts, loans, certificates of deposit, annuities, credit life insurance, financial education, etc.

State workers: Quit whining. I recently lost my job along with 85 others when our plant closed.

ST. CHARLES – A 70-year-old woman was conned into giving two women $2,100 after they promised her $25,000, according to the St.

The communities of St. Charles and Truro were saddened to learn of the sudden death of Terry Brant on Saturday, Nov.

They counted, recounted, drew a name from a hat, and then counted again. And when the election dust finally cleared Tuesday, Joan Brown was still the mayor of St.

A tied election for mayor was decided last week by drawing a name from a hat, but the incumbent then called for a vote recount.

ST. CHARLES – Fifteen businesses along the Main Street corridor have agreed to participate in Chamber Land, a St.

We finally got a welcomed break from the rain and just in time for beggar's night in Truro.

The winner of a mayoral race in St. Charles was selected from a drawing on Tuesday.

A new committee has been formed and met for the first time last Thursday at city hall.

The classic burnished look of an Iowa autumn returned to the state Tuesday, and farmers scrambled into fields to try to catch up on the latest harvest since the early 1970s.

Authorities said Jason Bowers was charged Monday in a rash of small town bank robberies.

A Des Moines man believed to have terrorized small-town Iowa banks with a series of gunpoint robberies since Oct.

Friday afternoon around 1 p.m. the St. Charles Farmers & Merchants State Bank was robbed and the robber took a car that belonged either to a customer or one of the employees of the bank.

St. Charles, Ia. - A man robbed the Farmers and Merchants Bank in St. Charles at about 1 p.m. Friday, the Madison County sheriff's office said.