Hardin County COVID-19 Coverage
A long-awaited new shipment of COVID-19 vaccine doses is due to arrive in Hardin County today, but the shots are already spoken for after a fl…
The rate of new COVID-19 cases in Hardin County ticked up last week as testing for the disease continued to decline.
With direction from the Iowa Department of Public Health that the next phase of COVID-19 vaccinations should begin no later than Feb. 1, Hardi…
Businesses eligible for a second round of Paycheck Protection Program loans can apply for funding as of this week.
Because COVID-19 is still so new, doctors and medical professionals still don’t know a lot about it. Sometimes, they see healthy people contra…
It’s shortly after 4 a.m. when Nick LaVelle pulls into the South Hardin High School parking lot. He strolls to the door, swipes his key fob an…
The number of new COVID-19 cases reported in Hardin County was down considerably last week – half what it was the week before – but testing fo…
Nearly all of the COVID-19 vaccine doses received by Hardin County Public Health last month have been administered, but as the county looks ah…
Unfortunately, those who love the annual chili cook-off, pancake breakfast and trivia night associated with Winter Rec Fest will have to wait …
As the nurse management team planned for when COVID-19 entered Grand JiVante, the floor staff trained. Certified Nurse Assistants and Certifie…
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Hardin County grew at a faster pace last week, but the number of people who’ve recovered grew more, leavin…
Iowa's coronavirus website, which state officials lauded last month for providing “timely, relevant data that informs the state’s public healt…
Verl Duncan spent years serving others. He did it as a soldier in Vietnam, and as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity and Hardin County Cons…
Hardin County welcomed the new year with continued spread of COVID-19. The number of new cases identified in the last week is down from the pr…
Greenbelt Home Care/Hardin County Public Health is reporting a positive reaction from the public to the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations b…
Two weeks ago, Hardin County Supervisor Chairman Lance Granzow indicated he would no longer discuss the county's position regarding mask manda…
Editors note: The Ackley World Journal is detailing the Grand JiVanté COVID-19 outbreak in a series of stories. They tell the story of the out…
Hardin County reported a total of 49 new cases of COVID-19 last week, down from 68 cases the week before. The county saw two additional deaths…
Happy chatter filled the lobby of Medicap Pharmacy in Eldora on Wednesday afternoon as Hardin County's first doses of COVID-19 vaccine were in…
Editors note: Over the next few weeks, the Ackley World Journal will detail the Grand JiVanté COVID-19 outbreak in a series of stories. They w…
Hardin County added 68 new COVID-19 cases over the last week, closely matching the previous week’s case count 67. But while new cases remain s…
Hardin County health care providers and nursing home residents will have the opportunity to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus this m…
Dr. Katie Haverkamp, of Hansen Family Hospital and Iowa Falls Clinic, talks with Times Citizen Editor Sara Konrad Baranowski about the current…
The Eldora-New Providence School Board discussed a number of topics in what was a relatively short meeting Monday night.
Sixty-seven Hardin County residents tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week. It's the smallest number of new cases the county has seen s…
While the rate of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations has mostly plateaued in Iowa over the last two weeks, the latest report from the Whi…
COVID-19 outbreaks at two long term care facilities in Eldora have infected 15 residents, state and local officials reported this week.
Hardin County’s COVID-19 death toll rose by almost 60 percent Tuesday evening after the Iowa Department of Public Health implemented a new met…
Hardin County added 101 new COVID-19 cases over the last week, boosting the total infection count to 1,258 on Monday morning. That weekly case…
While the growth of new COVID-19 cases in Hardin County and across Iowa has slowed in recent days, the latest report from the White House Coro…
Hardin County could get doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine this month, depending on the timing of approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administrati…
Everyone associated with high school athletics is aware of the challenges of holding a season amid a global pandemic. Now, the Iowa Falls-Alde…
The growth of new COVID-19 cases among Hardin County residents slowed over the last week, but the county still added 100 new cases, continuing…
While the number of new COVID-19 cases identified in Hardin County over the last week was down from the previous week, a report from the White…
Not every visitor to the Hardin County Courthouse is willing to comply with a new rule requiring masks be worn inside the building.
The Met Theatre in Iowa Falls will go dark this week, but the closure isn’t forever.
Hardin County saw continued rapid spread of COVID-19 over the last week, mirroring trends at the state and national levels. And while the numb…
Just days after Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds put additional restrictions into place, the latest White House Coronavirus Task Force report warns that…
Following Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' Monday evening announcement regarding more strict COVID-19 mitigation measures, the Hardin County Board of S…
Jody Anderson recalls plenty of interactions with Clark McNeal that impact his decision making on a daily basis.
In the midst of a global pandemic it can be tempting to simply click through Amazon or other websites to purchase those Christmas gifts for fr…
Times Citizen Editor Sara Konrad Baranowski sat down for another conversation with Dr. Katie Haverkamp of Iowa Falls Clinic and Hansen Family …
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced more stringent COVID-19 mitigation rules on Monday evening.
As cases in the county continue to rise, the Hardin County Jail now has at least four detainees confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19.
Iowa Falls-Alden Superintendent Tony Neumann did not mince words when discussing the ongoing fight versus COVID-19 during Monday's Alden Schoo…
Positive cases of COVID-19 continue to skyrocket in Hardin County as the area set another one-week record over the last seven days.
Times Citizen Editor Sara Konrad Baranowski sits down for a conversation with Dr. Katie Haverkamp with Iowa Falls Clinic and Hansen Family Hos…
Hardin County’s COVID-19 case count has been on a steep climb for weeks, with no signs of leveling off. The surge is disrupting business opera…
Access Incorporated will be closed until December 30.The Alden Library highly recommends curbside service due to the high number of COVID in o…
For months, local schools have done what they can to keep students in school amid a worsening pandemic. But an increase in the number of cases…
When Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds announced on Tuesday new mandates for youth and high school sports intended to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, Io…
For 33 days, the staff at Hubbard Care Center worked around the clock as an outbreak of COVID-19 swept through the building. They spent 13-hou…
Hardin County set another record last week for new COVID-19 cases in a seven-day period, continuing a trend that began last month and threaten…
The Eldora Children's Center Board of Directors enacted a policy to require all staff and children over two years old to wear masks while on s…
A recent spike in COVID-19 cases among Hardin County residents is showing no signs of abating, and for the third week in a row, that kept Hard…
Eldora Children's Center will be shut down for two weeks after one staff member tested positive for COVID-19 and other employees await their results.
As COVID-19 cases have surged across Iowa, so have hospitalizations for treatment of the disease. The state of Iowa has set new record high nu…
A spike in Hardin County COVID-19 cases that began a month ago and showed signs of easing last week has resumed. The week of Oct. 26 to Nov. 2…
What began with an employee's single positive COVID-19 test, has turned into an outbreak of the virus at Grand JiVanté in Ackley.
Three residents at Grand JiVanté, a long-term care facility in Ackley, have tested positive for COVID-19.
For the second week in a row, Hardin County’s high level of community spread of COVID-19 has put it in the red zone, and a report from the Whi…
Millions of Americans’ employment status has changed this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, and as a result, so has their health insur…
Community spread of COVID-19 continued in Hardin County last week, infecting 47 people and causing two additional deaths.
An employee at Grand JiVanté care center in Ackley has tested positive for COVID-19.
The most recent report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force has moved Hardin County from the orange zone to the red zone for COVID-19 c…
Fifty-five Hardin County residents were diagnosed with COVID-19 over the last week, setting a new record for most cases in a single week, and …
Students, employees and visitors to the AGWSR School District's buildings are required to wear masks under a new rule issued this week. The ma…
An outbreak of COVID-19 has infected 18 residents at a nursing home in Hubbard.
Jim Daggs, former Ackley mayor, will be remembered for many things following his death on Friday, Oct. 2 – none of them more than his legacy o…
Ellsworth Community College reported on Monday that 19 students tested positive for COVID-19 last week. It’s the largest single jump in cases …
Hardin County has seen a surge of new COVID-19 cases in recent days, setting records for most cases in a single day and week.
Out of an abundance of caution, there are several Ellsworth Community College student-athletes in quarantine as they await test results or the…
During late August, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would provide funding to pay for all students in the Iowa Falls, Eldora-Ne…
COVID-19 is continuing to spread in Hardin County, and it infected another 21 residents over the last week.
The Iowa Department of Public Health broke with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week, issuing new guidance about who shoul…
Hardin County saw the biggest jump in COVID-19 cases last week since an outbreak at the Boys State Training School in Eldora infected 52 peopl…
What will Halloween look like during a global pandemic? According to guidelines issued last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Preven…
Nineteen Hardin County residents tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week. That’s according to a report issued by Greenbelt Home Care/Har…
The Alden School Board extended its mask mandate for another month, but will revisit the issue in October.
The Iowa Falls-Alden High School band room has undergone more than $65,000 worth of renovations in recent months. New carpet, paint, acoustics…
Citing 29 cases of COVID-19 in the 50601 ZIP code, and with the measures put in place by the AGWSR School District to mitigate the spread of t…
Since the arrival of the novel coronavirus, Pat Norem admits there have been plenty sleepless nights that have reminded him of his tenure as h…
The 50126 ZIP code - home to Iowa Falls, and the most populous of Hardin County's nine ZIP codes - has seen the most COVID-19 infections this …
*This story was updated at 10:50 a.m. on Sept. 14 to include new AGWSR COVID numbers.
The Hardin County Board of Supervisors have requested the reimbursement of more than $213,000 from the Iowa COVID-19 Government Relief Fund.
This year, more than previous years, voters have become interested in casting absentee ballots.
Economists will tell you there's no such thing as a free lunch. But that won't apply to families in the Iowa Falls and South Hardin schools fo…
Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, many people are struggling. Loss of income for some families has made the list of food-poor even lon…
There are traits every breeder looks for in a horse. A nice topline. A sweeping leg. A good hock. Those are the things Gregg Reisinger – a hal…
Iowa Falls-Alden's 2020 Homecoming dance and parade are off following an announcement by school administrators Tuesday afternoon.
Nineteen Hardin County residents were diagnosed with COVID-19 over the last week, lifting the cumulative case total for the county to 249. Of …
AGWSR High School reported its first COVID-19 case on Thursday last week, just four days into the school year. The case was confirmed by Super…
AGWSR has confirmed its first case of COVID-19 in the district. The announcement came on Thursday evening, just four days into the school year…
Gov. Kim Reynolds announced in July that $50 million of federal emergency pandemic funding would be distributed to mental health care provider…
For the last two weeks, the Iowa Department of Public Health has been altering the dates of some COVID-19 tests on its website, a practice tha…
The topic of face coverings in the era of coronavirus reached the Hardin County Board of Supervisors again on Wednesday, but the three board m…
A report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force is recommending that Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds close bars in most counties – including Hardi…
Two weeks after media reports exposed discrepancies among data on Iowa’s coronavirus website, and the state announced it had fixed the glitch …
Things were moving quickly last spring when the first cases of COVID-19 were popping up around America. There was uncertainty about what the v…
During an ordinary year, school nurses are busy dealing with common illnesses like colds, flu and strep throat. But this is no ordinary year. …
It’s rare to be given the gift of time.
This school year will be full of new experiences as students and staff return to the classroom amid a global pandemic.
Iowa Falls-Alden's athletic department has released 2020-21 spectator guidelines that must be followed in order to attend or visit the school …
In the last week, an additional 21 Hardin County residents have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Tho…
The AGWSR Cougars' volleyball season was set to start Tuesday with the Grundy Center Quad. Instead, that start has been pushed back due to one…
None of the coaches within the greenbelt area pretend to have all the answers when it comes to playing high school football during a global pandemic.
In a special AGWSR school board meeting held last Tuesday evening, Aug. 18, board members chose to delay the start of the school year for one …
The State of Iowa acknowledged on Wednesday that the system it uses to track COVID-19 cases has been assigning some portion of the positive an…
Hardin County has recorded its first COVID-19 death, nearly five months after the disease's presence was first confirmed here.
Alden Elementary students will be required to wear face coverings in the school building through the first day of October, but the Alden Schoo…
For months, the Iowa Department of Public Health has been backdating positive COVID-19 tests, a practice that alters the 14-day positivity rat…
The Hardin County Board of Supervisors will not write a letter to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds recommending she issue or allow mask mandates at the …
South Hardin will most likely push the start of school back one week due to Monday's storm and a delay in receiving cleaning equipment needed …
Joe Brekunitch, manager at Cash For Cans in Iowa Falls, was happy to see the moratorium on can and bottle returns at grocery and convenience s…
An impassioned and, at times, emotional conversation about whether to require face coverings on students and employees in the Iowa Falls Schoo…
Just as guidelines dropped for the fall sports, the Iowa Falls-Alden Dance Team started practicing for their own season. And yes, they also ha…
Twenty Hardin County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last week.
John and Ruth Campbell aren't ordained pastors, they just enjoy sharing the word of God. They’ve been doing that at Scenic Manor for a while n…
The Scenic City Labor Day Car show, like so many events in 2020, has been called off because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Students who attend South Hardin schools in person this fall will be required to wear masks, face shields or sit behind a portable Plexiglass …
Jill Campbell helps people find the eyewear they want at Wood Vision in Iowa Falls. Now, the job that was already difficult has been made comp…
The number of COVID-19 cases in Hardin County has continued its upward climb. On Monday morning the state's coronavirus website was reporting …
The Iowa Falls and Alden school districts will start the new school year with half the students attending two days a week and the other half a…
On Thursday, the State released long-awaited guidelines that tell school leaders when they should be providing in-person instruction, and when…
Restaurants and bars that fail to enforce social distancing rules will now face stiffer penalties.
Even as pandemic restrictions have been lifted, retailers and manufacturers alike continue to struggle with issues resulting from the coronavi…
The Iowa High School Athletic Association and the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released new guidelines on Wednesday that begin to pai…
The number of staff and students affected by an outbreak of COVID-19 at the Boys State Training School in Eldora has continued to expand this …
Iowa Valley Community College District announced on July 15 that it planned to hold classes in-person with students living on campus in the fa…
An outbreak of COVID-19 at the Boys State Training School in Eldora has infected at least five staff members and 12 students.
Eighteen Hardin County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since Friday morning, according to the state's coronavirus website.
In a statement released Friday afternoon, the Iowa High School Athletic Association set forth scheduling details for the 2020 football season.
Hardin County has four new cases of COVID-19, according to an update of the state's coronavirus website. The cases were reported between Thurs…
Seven Hardin County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since Tuesday this week, increasing the total cumulative local case count to 1…
While the Clerk of Court office is now open at the Hardin County Courthouse, the plans for how people will be allowed on the court floor and i…
The Hubbard-Radcliffe School Board had mixed opinions regarding whether or not students and staff should be required to wear masks or face shi…
Superintendent Tony Neumann was blunt when he addressed the Alden School Board during Monday’s discussion about plans to return to in-person l…
Hardin County has recorded 11 new cases of COVID-19 since last Friday, pushing the county's cumulative case total to 109 since testing began i…
When colleges and universities across the country shifted to a virtual learning format because of the COVID-19 pandemic, dorms were closed and…
UPDATE: This story was updated at 9:45 a.m. to reflect the announcement that two more cases were identified on Friday morning.
The Hardin County Supervisors will use grant money to purchase three ALIBI Detection Modules, machines that will conduct temperature checks of…
Two more confirmed local cases of COVID-19 were reported on Wednesday, bringing the cumulative total of Hardin County cases since March to 93.
The coronavirus pandemic has made it clear that some classes are easier to teach virtually than others.
Iowa Falls School District leaders are preparing for whatever may await students and teachers when school resumes next month, whether that’s i…
Parents of students at South Hardin schools will have the chance to weigh in on a plan regarding how to reopen those schools early next month.
The Hardin County community will have to wait a couple more weeks to learn the details about how schools in the area will begin the new academ…
Four new weekend COVID-19 diagnoses have lifted the county's total case count to 91, according to information released on Sunday by Greenbelt …
South Hardin's softball season has come to an abrupt end after one of the players tested positive for COVID-19.
Three additional Hardin County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the county case total to 84 people since March.
Hardin County's Clerk of Courts office will be open to the public beginning Monday, July 13, with similar safety protocol as other offices at …
Whether the pandemic’s to blame isn’t certain, but Joe Brekunitch said there’s been a decided upturn in over-the-counter can and bottle redemp…
On Tuesday, Greenbelt Home Care/Hardin County Public Health announced five new local COVID-19 cases, bringing the total county case total to 8…
An increase in the number of people requesting COVID-19 tests is prompting a reminder from Hansen Family Hospital that it is not a TestIowa si…
Seventy-six Hardin County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 since March. That's after five more local residents were diagnosed with …
Editor's Note: This story was updated at 10 a.m. to include two additional COVID-19 cases.
The people who attended South Hardin High School’s commencement ceremony in Eldora on June 27 may have been exposed to COVID-19.
Another Hardin County resident has tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the local case total to 67 since testing began in Iowa in March.
Jose Orozco was concerned when he was ordered to close his popular Iowa Falls restaurant Las Flores as the coronavirus pandemic began to sprea…
Two months ago I pledged to our readers – to our community, really – that no matter what happened with the coronavirus pandemic, the Times Cit…
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