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Merritt Dowd

Merritt Dowd writes about Cowboys sports in season and spends the rest of the year in the field, talking with farmers about weather, markets and yield.

Drainage trustees take up District 169 reclassification and annexation

Farmland outside Pleasantville, Iowa

Wright County supervisors, sitting as drainage trustees, were scheduled Nov. 9 to receive a commissioner’s reclassification report and an annexation report on Drainage District 169 and to set a public hearing on both.

Categories Farm & Field Tags Clarion, Drainage District 169, tile drainage, Wright County Supervisors

Custom rate survey shows what Iowa farmers pay for hired work

Corn combine harvest with grain cart-4

A lot of Iowa farmers hire out at least some of their field and livestock work, and every spring Iowa State University Extension publishes the numbers on…

Categories Farm & Field

C-G-D middle school baseball and softball coaches look back on 2021

LIttle League baseball, May 2009

After the 2020 summer was cut short, the 2021 middle school baseball and softball seasons at Clarion-Goldfield-Dows looked closer to normal, though…

Categories Cowboys Sports

Cowboys come back to beat the Lynx, 53-42

Pierre Governors high school basketball game

After the Cowgirls played a tight game earlier in the night, the Clarion-Goldfield-Dows boys found themselves in the same spot in December 2021 against…

Categories Cowboys Sports

Southeast Valley hands Cowboys a 62-31 loss

Quantico High School Football Championship Game 161118-M-GK190-004

Clarion-Goldfield-Dows ran into an unbeaten Southeast Valley team in October 2021 and lost 62-31.

Categories Cowboys Sports

C-G-D athletic director Tim Morrison leaves for Wartburg; Jeff Meyer named interim

Forest Lake High School Football Stadium

Clarion-Goldfield-Dows announced in late 2020 that athletic director Tim Morrison had resigned, effective Nov. 30. Morrison was leaving for Wartburg…

Categories Cowboys Sports

Humboldt tops Cowboys 20-8 as baseball season winds down

Mogollon High School baseball fields

Clarion-Goldfield-Dows baseball took a 20-8 loss at Humboldt on Monday, July 1, 2019, in a game that ended after four innings.

Categories Cowboys Sports

C-G-D middle school wrestlers wrap up a season of steady progress

2025 Asian Youth Games, Freestyle Wrestling Avash 33

The Clarion-Goldfield-Dows middle school wrestling team, coached by Kyle Ruiter, finished its 2015-16 season in late February.

Categories Cowboys Sports

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