"It's kind of hard to eat breakfast when your plate is full of snow!" Wednesday morning humans and wildlife alike woke up to another coat of the blessed white stuff. This time there wasn't a great deal of accumulation, but the snow was heavy and wet, making for slushy driving around the community.

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The 1st State Bank of Mason City and Illini Central High School presented Alison Stone with the award for February Student of the Month. For demonstrating outstanding character, Alison receives a Barnes & Noble gift card from 1st State Bank and an iTunes gift card from Illini Central High School faculty. Read more about Alison in the Teaching & Learning section below.

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• Norman and Virginia Newhouse 

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• Silas Lawrence Judd

• Tracyn LuAnn Stankavich

• Amelia Louise and Esther Majorie Van Wie

 

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We think our snowplow man, Mr. Larson, may be as tired of our snow pile as we are! Wednesday morning, instead of making our pile taller, he made it wider, sliding snow up against the old pile, but not on it. With the hopes of warmer weather over the weekend, maybe we'll still see much of the pile go bye-bye.

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LCHS coach Neil Alexander calls out to his team at the Wednesday night game of the Railers versus Chatham-Glenwood. The Railers came out on top with a final score of 48-29.

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