Skilled German thatchers came to Iowa in 1999 to install a reed and straw roof on a 300-year-old hausbarn moved in pieces from their homeland to Manning. A car crash delayed the job, but it eventually got done.
LE MARS Fifth grade students at Clark and Franklin Elementary schools in Le Mars took a field trip to Des Moines on March 23. The students, teachers and several parents had a busy day. Franklin.