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Maybe you were there when it happened or read about it the first time around, but some things are just worth repeating.
Today is Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. There are 336 days remaining in the year. Here’s what the CNA reported on this week in history. Do you remember?
10 years ago (2016)
Another Creston athlete is headed to Sioux City for a collegiate career. Seth Maitlen signed a National Letter of Intent to play football at Morningside College. His uncle, Steve Ryan, is the head coach of the Morningside program that has made the NAIA national semifinals four years in a row, including an appearance in the national championship game in 2012.
The Creston/O-M wrestling team won its fifth straight Hawkeye 10 Conference Tournament Saturday, piecing together yet another dominating performance. With 145-pounder Mitchel Swank out because of mononucleosis, head coach Darrell Frain had anticipated a close competition for the team title with Glenwood and Lewis Central. It was a close race — just not at the top. All 13 Panther wrestlers advanced to the semifinals and nine of those advanced to the finals. Creston/O-M won six of nine championship matches on its way to scoring 275 points.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released regional basketball pairings for classes 4A and 5A Monday afternoon, including a first-round home game for the Creston Panthers. In Class 4A Region 8, Creston hosts one of two quarterfinal games against Glenwood at 7 p.m. Feb. 17. ADM hosts Winterset in the other quarterfinal. Coming off two weekend wins, Creston is now 9-6 overall, with a 4-4 mark in the Hawkeye 10.
20 years ago (2006)
Saturday night, Creston/Orient-Macksburg wrestling coach Darrell Frain began to accept that his team might not win the Hawkeye 10 duals title, an objective accomplished only by defeating Lewis Central at home Tuesday night. It was a tough pill to swallow. After all, more so than any other year, Frain entered the season confident his team had a shot at the conference title -- something that had eluded the school since 1979. Things looked grim. Health was a serious factor and the Panthers were fresh off a disappointing fifth-place finish at the conference tournament. Tuesday night, as the pins started to mount for Creston/O-M, it became abundantly clear Frain’s concerns were unfounded. With one pin from Austin Studer at 160 pounds, the victory was sealed. The celebration was explosive.
The Creston boys basketball team experienced deja vu during Friday’s 71-37 victory over Atlantic. The Panthers used an 11-0 run to conclude the half to take a 35-21 halftime edge, not unlike the 20-3 second-quarter run used at Atlantic in the first meeting.
30 years ago (1996)
The Creston Panthers removed all doubt early against a young Clarinda team Tuesday in a 97-78 victory. The Panthers led 31-14 after one quarter and scored 55 points by halftime. Creston’s Ben Gerleman broke his own school record with 18 assists, three more than his previous high.
The “hired guns” have been brought in to wage war against Union County snowdrifts. Dubbed “Snow-Go” for obvious reasons, a huge auger truck from the Iowa Department of Transportation was busy Wednesday and today eating away at drifted county roads southeast of Creston near Afton. The truck shoots snow up to 60 feet.
Ken Foglesong of Creston High School is among the team members for the 1996 Iowa Shrine Bowl All-Star Football Classic selected by the North and South head coaches and staff. Foglesong will be representing the Panthers on the South squad.
40 years ago (1986)
The 45th annual Creston Little All-State Choral Festival is being held today and Thursday in the Creston High School. Two hundred and fifty students from 19 area schools will be participating in the two-day festival. Richard Weymuth, assistant professor of music at Northwest Missouri State University, will be the guest director.
A visiting poet says he likes to re-enter the classroom occasionally to help “get back in touch with the basics” of his craft. George O’Connell, a poet from Omaha, will be at St. Malachy’s school the remainder of the week as part of the Iowa Arts Council’s “artist-in-the-schools” program, funded jointly by the arts council and the local school.