Heather Leonard has always been an artist, so it makes sense she makes a living pursing art.Leonard and her business partner, Kully Huntley, are the owners of BorderTown in Hamburg.Leonard and Huntley live in Hamburg after having grown up in Riverton.Leonard has been a tattoo artist for 15 years, starting at age 18.
Riverton Hometown Pride, which was formed just a year ago, has already hosted a number of events, including a breakfast fundraiser that served close to 100 people.The organization’s upcoming flower fundraiser looks to be popular with proceeds going to the Riverton Cemetery Repair Project.Other events in Riverton include Trick or Treat, the Chautauqua Restoration Research, Riverton Community Days which includes a 5K, live music and 50/50 raffle, and a winter event, the Santa’s Workshop.
Eleven Fremont County youth weighed in 39 market hogs Saturday, April 6, at the Fremont County Fairgrounds in Sidney.Assisting with the weigh-in were Fremont County Extension and Outreach County Youth Coordinator Jessica Prazan, County Council member Lillian Howe, and 4-H Volunteer Ryan Roberts.
It’s amazing to gardeners that our lawns and landscapes can just be greening up in spring and yet there are weeds already growing like gangbusters and blooming!
The Hamburg Reporter’s Teresa Crecelius recently conducted a question-and-answer session with Rodeo Clown Shawn (Boom Boom) Thompson.
After the second driest February on record, above-normal rainfall in March helped improve some drought conditions across Iowa, according to the latest Water Summary Update.
April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month.
A new statewide project is looking for Iowa volunteers to help researchers track and monitor the state’s at-risk bumble bees.
Coming off record harvests in 2020 and again in 2023, Iowa’s spring turkey hunters could be living in the “good ol’ days.” And with three straight years of good hatches across much of the state, roughly 35,000 hunters are ready to hit the woods.“Two-year-old birds drive the population, do lots of the gobbling and tend to move more than the older toms, which is what hunters like,” said Jim Coffey, forest wildlife biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.