Janet Sawyer will celebrate her 90th birthday with a family gathering and card shower.She was born July 18, 1924 at Dysart, Iowa to Charles and Albena Krafka. She married Warren Messer in 1947. He died in 1972. She married Warren Sawyer in 1975. He died in 2011. She retired from teaching at ...

Janet Sawyer will celebrate her 90th birthday with a family gathering and card shower.She was born July 18, 1924 at Dysart, Iowa to Charles and Albena Krafka. She married Warren Messer in 1947. He died in 1972. She married Warren Sawyer in 1975. He died in 2011. She retired from teaching at ...

Beginning this weekend at the Traer Theatre is the new comedy 22 Jump Street. After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, ...

Whitney Kriz and Matt Albertsen are very pleased to announce their engagement and approaching wedding.The bride to be is manager at Joe's Gym in Dysart and La Porte City. The groom to be is a HVAC Technician at Young Plumbing & Heating in Waterloo.Parents of the couple are Kendall and ...

Whitney Kriz and Matt Albertsen are very pleased to announce their engagement and approaching wedding.The bride to be is manager at Joe's Gym in Dysart and La Porte City. The groom to be is a HVAC Technician at Young Plumbing & Heating in Waterloo.Parents of the couple are Kendall and ...

Showing this weekend at the Traer Theatre is the new movie The Fault in Our Stars. Based on the bestselling novel by author John Green, the romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars tells the story of Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus Waters (Angel Elgort), who fall hopelessly ...

Bob and Sheila Everhart will preforming in the Kupka Cultural Center at the Traer Public Library on Thursday, July 10 at 7:00 PM. Admission is by free will donation.The Everharts have been performing old-time and traditional acoustic music in the "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" style for all 20 ...

Showing this weekend at the Traer Theatre is the new action adventure film X-Men: Days of Future Past. X-Men and X-Men 2 director Bryan Singer returns to the reigns of Marvel Entertainment's popular comic-book film franchise with this time-traveling installment that finds the Wolverine (Hugh ...

Louis and Pat Beck of Buckingham are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Lydia Beck, to Matthew Alexander, son of Scott and Pam Alexander of Defiance, Missouri. Father Jerry Kopacek and Deacon Fred Fritsch performed the 2 p.m. ceremony on May 3, 2014, at St. Edward Catholic ...

Louis and Pat Beck of Buckingham are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter, Lydia Beck, to Matthew Alexander, son of Scott and Pam Alexander of Defiance, Missouri. Father Jerry Kopacek and Deacon Fred Fritsch performed the 2 p.m. ceremony on May 3, 2014, at St. Edward Catholic ...