Author Archives: Western Iowa Today

(Treynor) Treynor opens the season against St. Albert on Friday night. Treynor coach Jeff Casey says the main goal for the team is to come out and play hard every night. "It's a group that I usually d...

(Anita) The Cedar Rapids Gazette has CAM and Audubon ranked 1-2 in their preseason rankings for 8-player football. CAM coach Barry Bower is downplaying his team's top spot in the poll ahead of their s...

Mass of Christian Burial for 80 year old Richard Alan Jones of Harlan will be Friday, August 27th at 11:00 AM at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Harlan. Visitation will be Thursday, August 26th from ...

Irene Carol Rydl, age 98, of Anita, IA, passed away Saturday, August 21, 2021, at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, IA. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Augu...

(Atlantic) Kevin Sweeney, son of Atlantic residents Bob and Kathy Sweeney, recently made the most of an incredible opportunity at the Summer Olympics. Kevin Sweeney served as a baseball umpire at the ...

(Waukee) Former Elk Horn-Kimballton basketball star Brett Watson has made a handful of stops at the high school level and one in college. This spring he landed one of the most sought after coaching gi...

(Guthrie Center) One of the area's biggest volleyball talents is going D-I. ACGC senior Chloe Largent announced her commitment to UNI over the weekend. Largent posted 346 kills as a junior, 619 as a s...

(Exira) Only three seniors are gone from last year's Exira-EHK football team. It's hard to know exactly what to expect after a season in which the Spartans had so many COVID-19 disruptions, but they d...

(Griswold) The Griswold Tiger football team has one big thing on their mind this season. The Tigers intend to pick up their first win since 2018. Coach Chase Wallace reports things are going a lot mor...

(Avoca) AHSTW played just five football games last season and had three cancelled. The Vikings are chomping at the bit to get things started this year. Coach GG Harris reports players and coaches are ...