Newsroom

Kim Sanders

Kim Sanders

Editor and publisher. Kim is the editor and publisher of Clarion News Online. She assigns and edits stories, handles corrections and runs the business side, including advertising.

Jill Ostrander

Jill Ostrander

County, city and schools. Jill covers the boards that set your property taxes and decide which roads get paved: the Wright County supervisors, the Clarion City Council and the Clarion-Goldfield-Dows school board. She reads budgets line by line and tries to explain each vote in terms of what it changes at home. In August she is at the fairgrounds in Eagle Grove.

Curt Hanneman

Curt Hanneman

Business, Finance and Cowboys sports. Curt writes about the businesses on and off the square: openings, expansions, closings and the jobs that come with them, plus household money questions like assessments and utility rates. He also follows the business names readers talk about at the coffee counter, from Des Moines to Wall Street. In winter you will find him in the bleachers at C-G-D basketball games.

Dale Brekke

Dale Brekke

Farm & Field. Dale covers the land around the towns: planting and harvest progress, grain prices, conservation practices, drainage projects and the wind leases that changed parts of the county. He leans on USDA reports, ISU Extension and the farmers who will talk on the record.