Showing this weekend at the Traer Theatre is the new animated film Despicable Me 2. In the film, Steve Carrell's Gru is back-this time around, he's now a doting single father to his adopted daughters: Agnes, Margo and Edith. Pursued by some of the single women in the neighborhood, Gru's content ...

Leah Kay Jeffries of Waterloo and Adam Richard Wauters of Dysart are planning an August wedding. Parents of the couple are Patrick and Nancy Jeffries of Waterloo and Richard and Janis Wauters of Dysart. The bride-to-be is a 2012 graduate of the University of Northern Iowa where she is currently ...

The 47th annual Kern reunion was held on Sunday, June 23, 2013 at Amity Presbyterian Church. 40 family members gathered together for a 12:30 potluck meal.Clara Grace Hamer, seven month old daughter of Caleb and Danielle Hamer, granddaughter of Ted and Linda Hamer, was the youngest family ...

The July "Sunday at the Museum" program will be held on July 27, at 2 p.m. in the Agriculture Museum at the Dysart Historical Center. The featured speaker will be Arlene Siemens Oster of Lowden. Arlene was born at Dysart in 1913 and grew up on the family farm southwest of town. This lady, ...

Dan Wardell from Iowa Public Television entertained a full house at the library in the Kupka Cultural Center on Wednesday, June 26, as part of the summer reading program.

Showing this weekend at the Traer Theatre is the new animated film Monsters University in 3-D. Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn't always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met, they couldn't stand each other. Monsters University ...

Megan Clark and Matthew Prestemon would like to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding.Megan is a student at Hawkeye Community College and Matt is self-employed with Morel Eyewear. Parents of the bride are Todd and Denise Clark of La Porte City. Parents of the groom are Dana Prestemon ...

David and Denise Danker of Traer, along with Connie Folkers of Reinbeck and Brian Finn of Waterloo, are pleased to announce the engagement and upcoming wedding of their children, Hailey Danker and Chris Finn.Hailey is the granddaughter of Joe and Janice Kopriva of Traer and the late Bill and ...

Emily Anne Tobin and Travis Chet Michale Boucher are to be married on August 17 at Iowa Brethren Church in Marshalltown at 2 p.m.Emily is the daughter of Diane Tobin and Travis is the son of Debrah and Richard Boucher.

Megan Clark and Matthew Prestemon would like to announce their engagement and upcoming wedding.Megan is a student at Hawkeye Community College and Matt is self-employed with Morel Eyewear. Parents of the bride are Todd and Denise Clark of La Porte City. Parents of the groom are Dana Prestemon ...