Category: News
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A Good Exchange
November 25, 2025 Danilo Vulanovic from Montenegro and Jakub Novak from the Czech Republic are living in Earlham and attending Earlham School as exchange students this year. The boys have been here since August and will be a part of the community until the end of the school year. Moving…
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Newsies Delivers!
November 11, 2025 With a long line of hit musicals produced by Earlham Performing Arts, what do they do for an encore? Simple. Just put out another hit. With two excellent performances of Newsies last weekend, they did just that. Newsies had a little bit of everything. Strong singing and…
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Meet the School Board Candidates
October 21, 2025 There are four candidates running for two open seats on the Earlham School Board. Nick Comes, Brandon DeGroff, Kacey Henke, and Greg Opseth provide voters with good options when they go to the polls on November 4. Voters should do their homework with any election, of course,…
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A man without a party
August 19, 2025 As I sorted through the mail one day last week, among the usual bills and junk was an envelope addressed to my wife, Jennifer. It stood out because it was addressed by hand and the return address was Winterset. It was the wrong size and weight for…
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Auditor Candidate Interviews Set
Letter from the Editor June 24, 2025 The short tenure of Teri Kaczinski as Madison County Auditor will come to an end in early July. Her 6-month term was chaotic, filled with issues and problems in the office. Many blamed her. In her resignation letter, Kaczinski blamed just about everybody…
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Running With Heart
May 27, 2025 Last weekend, Taylor Rodgers competed in four events at the state track meet and placed in two of them. That’s a major accomplishment for anybody. But given that her road to Drake Stadium had a few more detours than many athletes will ever have to face, her…
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Earlham School Board Creates AD/DOS Position
April 1, 2025 The highlight of the special meeting of the Earlham School Board on March 26 was the consideration of the creation of a new administrative position; Activities Director/Dean of Students (AD/DOS). The item was on the agenda for the regularly scheduled meeting on March 12, but was tabled…
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Editorial: Of Politics and Sports
February 25, 2025 By Todd Weber I haven’t followed politics as closely as sports over the course of my life, but I’ve noticed a few similarities. (A) People support their teams no matter what, (B) have a general dislike for their opponents, and (C) tend to view everything through a…
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Kaczinski is firing and hiring
February 4, 2024 Madison County Human Resources Director Kelly Skerik was fired by Auditor Teri Kaczinski on Thursday, January 30. Afterward, the already gloomy mood in the courthouse got even darker. The timeline of events that got Skerik dismissed goes back a few days earlier: On Tuesday evening, January 28,…
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Latin 101
Parranderos Latin Combo mixesup some spicy salsa, and more June 18, 2024 Trying to define ‘Latin music’ is a nearly impossible task. The term is somewhat of a catchall phrase used to describe a broad spectrum of musical styles that originated just about everywhere Spanish is spoken. Then consider the…
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