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Central School Remembers: History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lake City

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Empty Nest: Pen Pal

Wanna get letters in the mail from a pen pal? Aimee Gauley, formerly of Ft.

Empty Nest: Buster's Fixer Upper

 I was giving Buster a tour of SE Iowa. Out on the edge of Mt.

Central School Remembers: How Roland Moseley Helped Build Lake City’s Boom Years

By Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Empty Nest: Lessons I Have Learned

Don't taunt, trash talk or jeer. It's never worked for me, in fact it usually backfires.

Central School Remembers: Smallpox, Snow Dominated Life in Lake City in March 1901

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Central School Remembers 40 Years Ago—Farm Crisis and More

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation president

Empty Nest: Pillbox

A pillbox is a type of blockhouse, or concrete dug-in guard-post, often camouflaged, normally equipped with loopholes

Central School Remembers: Leading to lead: Matthew Hardy leverages FFA experiences

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Empty Nest: Love Story for the Ages

With Valentine’s Day on the nigh, a good ole’ fashion love story seems in order, like strawberries and chocolate.

Central School Remembers: Understanding the mindset of a winning team

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School board president

Empty Nest: The Ghosts of Groundhog Day Past

Like thieves in the night, Groundhogs were our enemy when growing up on the Maple Hill farm west of Monroe.  Those li

Central School Remembers: Valentine’s Day in Lake City, 1901 Style

by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Central School Remembers: FFA for Life: Carlson Reflects on Teaching Ag in Texas

By Darcy Dougherty Maulsby
Central School Preservation board president

Empty Nest: Town Drunk

The town we used to live in on Colorado’s Front Range, was small enough, about 2,000 people, to have THE town drunk.

Empty Nest: Divine Intervention

The old priest asked me how I was doing.  I had almost died of alcoholism a few short weeks before.  I fell through t

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