Happy Holidays! Along with the holiday season comes a lot of packaging, cardboard, gift boxes, packing material and wrapping paper. 
 
RECYCLE the following items to keep your garbage bill low during the holidays:
Corrugated Cardboard - Always remember to remove any styrofoam, packing peanuts, air pillows (these are garbage) from cardboard boxes before flattening them to be recycled.

At their last scheduled meeting for the year Monday night, the Mantorville city council members unanimously approved a three per cent increase to the city property tax levy for 2017. Council members also learned the estimated market value of property in the city increased by 6.15 per cent. 
The final budget levy is $440,118. The group also approved the water and sewer budgets for 2017. 

“To help students feel empowered to explore with an open mind and an open heart the diversity within their classrooms, school, community, world and within themselves. #whyiteach”

Touring the labyrinthine dining rooms of The Hubbell House in Mantorville, the sheer weight of the building’s history presses down on you from seemingly every wall. From the moment you enter the iconic restaurant, you’re confronted with historical relics and photographs that chronicle both the timeless building itself  as well as the communities that radiate out and around the former stagecoach route hotel.

Although it’s only the first week of December, Santa has been busier than the candidates who ran for office this past year. There was a Santa sighting at the Dodge Center City Hall Saturday. He came checking some sort of list that he had with him. A list concerning “naughty and nice,” and he happily reported that all the kids who visited him Saturday were on the “nice” list.

Need proof Midwesterners are some of the most generous people on earth?
For the last five plus years, the Midwest Division of the American Cancer Society, Inc. has been number one in the nation per capita for raising money through Relay for Life. In 2016, about 13.9 million people raised about $17.7 million dollars, or $1.27 net per person.