Anamosa

Again, we had a flag football team made up of guys who all played college football, who were done with college, obviously didn't get into the pros, but we had a sponsor that sent us literally all over the United States playing flag football.

And our defensive coordinator had a contact at Anamosa for the prison in Anamosa and found out that they had a flag football team in Anamosa and they actually had all of Iowa University old uniforms.

So they had Iowa Hawkeye uniforms and they were pretty good and they at times would invite outside teams in to play them because they obviously had no league and they couldn't travel.

So anyway, long story short, we were invited to go to Anamosa.

And Anamosa

is rough.

And play flag football.

Wahlert has lost back-to-back games against Central DeWitt and Assumption by a combined eight points and are 2-2 this season in games decided by a touchdown or less.

Alburnett at Anamosa, 7:15 PM at Anamosa.

Number one Alburnett is 6-1 overall.

Anamosa is 4-3.

The victor claims the 2A District 5 title.

Alburnett has successfully kept the wear and tear of Lakon Cave's legs, but he is more than capable when called upon.

Albernette maintains a slim lead over Central Lion, George Little Rock, for the top spot in 2A.

The Pirates handed Monticello 55-16 in their first week as the number one team and traveled to Anamosa in their regular season finale.

District 2 houses three teams that are ranked in the top seven.

Ida Grove, OABCIG is third, Carroll Kemper fourth, and Spirit Lake seventh.

I was putting some weeds out of spiry bushes in the front of my house the other day, when I saw the insect in a photo accompanying this column.

It was walking slowly along the Anamosa limestone under the windows, called Chinese mantis.

It's one of a couple of types of praying mantises we have in Iowa.

Considered to be invasive by some, the Chinese variety evidently was brought to America by accident in the late 1800s.

Memorial contributions may be given in Ed's memory to the Hiawatha Care Center, for the wonderful loving care that he received while there.

Online condolences may be directed to the family at cedarmemorial.com. Rosella Ostad, 83, of Anamosa, peacefully went to sleep and awoke in heaven on Wednesday, September 30th.

The family will celebrate her life with a visitation from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday, October 9th at Getsch Funeral Home in Anamosa.

A private burial will be held at a later date with family.

Please visit Getsch online and share your thoughts, memories, and condolences with Rosella's family.

For many years, she dedicated her life as a registered nurse at St. Luke's and led with compassion and kindness.

She married Mark Austad on August 21, 1972.

She was a longtime member of First Congregational United Church of Christ in Anamosa.

There is a picture of a mammoth pumpkin.

This 2,497.5-pound pumpkin, grown by the Clare family of Henderson, Minnesota, was the heaviest pumpkin ever weighed in at the Ryan Norland Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Anamosa on Saturday.

The Gazette reported on Monday, incorrectly as it turns out, that the mammoth pumpkin was a new state record, but it's not a state record because it was grown in Minnesota, not Iowa.

The Iowa state record still belongs to Pete Kaspers of Peosta for a 2,424-pound pumpkin he brought to the Ryan Norland Weigh-Off in 2020.

And our final article from the front page, Hobby Plants the Seed for Much More.

Giant Pumpkin Sets State Record at Anamosa Festival.

This is by Fern Ahling.

When you start a new hobby, it can be hard to tell if you're any good at it.

Eric Clare, a director of operations at a family-run waste business in Minnesota, started growing giant pumpkins on a hobby whim in 2023.

Given that Claire and his sons set an Iowa record for the largest pumpkin weight in the state in his third year of growing giant pumpkins, it's safe to say they're off to a good start.

Claire, 45, and sons Charlie, 14, and Caleb, 13, drove four and a half hours to Anamosa from Henderson, Minnesota, with their pumpkin, Chuck, named after Charlie.

Initial estimates put the pumpkins' pounds on par with the Ian and Stuart Payton's world record, 2,819.3-pound pumpkin weighed October 6, 2025 in the UK.

I'll start with the death notices, which just list the folks whose obituaries have not yet been published.

Anamosa, Clayton Hollingshead, 69, died on September 22nd, catch funeral home.

Cedar Rapids, Matthew James Barta, 64, died September 24th, Murdoch Linwood Funeral Home and Cremation Service.

Cedar Rapids, Dolores J. McKenzie, 88, died on September 26th, Murdoch Linwood Funeral Home and Cremation Service.

He's fucking them coon up left and right.

I mean, that guy, he runs trap lines from Highway 52 to the other side of Anamosa.

Really? Yeah.

Every single day, that guy's out there running trap lines.