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Mason City students debut thrifted designs at runway show
MASON CITY, Iowa — A fashion show featuring models of all abilities will take place Friday at Affordables in Mason City. The annual Affordables Fashion Show, hosted by 43 North Iowa, will showcase everyday wear, professional looks, sustainable fashion and Halloween costumes. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. at 315 N. Delaware Ave., with the runway show starting shortly after.
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43 North Iowa hosting Affordables Fasion Show on Friday
(ABC 6 News) – 43 North Iowa is hosting its annual Affordables Fashion Show on Friday. The show is taking place at Affordables, 315 N. Delaware Avenue in Mason City. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the runway show will begin shortly after. The annual event will feature models of all abilities wearing everyday, professional, […]
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World-class brass band coming to NIACC this fall
MAASON CITY, Iowa — The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass will perform at the North Iowa Community Auditorium on Oct. 29. The show starts at 7 p.m. at the NIACC campus and is part of the 2026-2027 NIACC Performing Arts & Leadership Series. Hearing Associates and KCMR 97.9 FM are presenting the event.
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Spend A Night In A Covered Wagon With Bison Grazing Outside, Then Try Going Back To An Ordinary Iowa Motel
Imagine waking up to the quiet rustle of bison grazing just beyond your door. Sunset Hills Bison Ranch near Malcom, Iowa, invites guests to experience the prairie in a truly memorable way. Instead of a standard hotel room, visitors can spend the night in a cozy covered wagon. The ranch...
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This Iowa Italian Spot Serves Enormous Portions That Keep Thrifty Families Coming Back
Spaghetti arrives in a bucket here. Not a bowl, not a platter, but an actual bucket built to feed the whole family. The meatballs keep the theme going strong. They can measure two to three inches wide, which is closer to a baseball than a garnish. Then there is the...
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‘Some Kind of Haunted’ authors to be in Marion this week
Just in time for Halloween comes “Some Kind of Haunted,” a cozy horror romance novel set in Iowa, complete with blood, demons and, of course, a fated love story. The book is by Hazel Beck, the pen name of authors Megan Crane and Nicole Helm. Between them, they’ve...
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Meet the Iowa restaurant serving the state's best pork tenderloin
The breaded pork tenderloin is practically Iowa's state sandwich, with every roadside diner, sports bar and even some fine-dining establishments offering their own versions. This year, a casual, family-friendly American bar and grill in Carroll, Iowa, can claim to have the best in the state. On Oct. 15, the Iowa Pork Producers Association named Wasted Grain Bar & Grill in Carroll the 2026 Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin winner, rising above 464 nominated restaurants and four other finalists during Porktober, National Pork Month. Wasted Grain’s winning tenderloin didn’t begin in a kitchen. It began in a memory — one rooted in rural Iowa, in the kind of small‑town diner where the bun barely contains the golden, crisp cutlet beneath it. Co‑owner Cory Handlos grew up eating tenderloins at Darrell’s Place in Hamlin, the inaugural winner of the Iowa Pork Producers Association’s Best Breaded Pork Tenderloin contest back in 2003. That sandwich, he said, set the bar. More than two decades later, the tenderloin inspired by those meals has earned the same title. A hometown favorite, rebuilt from memory Handlos and his wife, Missy, opened Wasted Grain on Mother’s Day 2023 knowing a tenderloin had to be on the menu, and it
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‘Some Kind of Haunted’ authors to be in Marion this week
Just in time for Halloween comes “Some Kind of Haunted,” a cozy horror romance novel set in Iowa, complete with blood, demons and, of course, a fated love story. The book is by Hazel Beck , the pen name of authors Megan Crane and Nicole Helm. Between them, they’ve written almost 300 romance titles, including the four-book Witchlore series by Hazel Beck, starting in 2022, in the same cozy horror romance genre. They followed that collaboration with the new “Haunted” book, the first in a two-book series. Crane, of southern Oregon, and Helm, from the St. Louis area, will be in Marion for a reading and discussion of “Haunted” at the Granger House — which has its own ghost stories — on Saturday, Oct. 24. The event , sponsored by HEA Book Boutique and Swamp Fox Bookstore, is sold out. The plot quickens “Haunted” is set in the fictional Mississippi River town of Midas, Iowa, whose founders made a deal long ago with some nasty demons. In exchange for ensured prosperity, the founders agreed that the demons could “feed” on the Midas populace once every generation. Most of the townspeople have forgotten about that agreement and attribute their neighbors’ untimely