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Riverton HP has busy calendar of events

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.

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Iowa’s spring turkey season is right around the corner

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.

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