LA PORTE CITY, IA — Residents of the Union Community School District recently provided feedback on the general obligation bond that was on the ballot in November 2024 and sought voter approval for a series of facility improvement projects. The anonymous survey was available March 17-30 and ...
DYSART – The Dysart Pickleball Organization (DPO) along with city leaders and local contractors held a groundbreaking ceremony for the City’s new pickleball courts on Tuesday, April 15, in Dysart City Park following a race to the finish by DPO members to secure more than $50,000 in ...
DYSART – The Dysart Historical Society will hold its annual meeting and a program on Sunday, April 27, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Agriculture Museum. Following the brief annual meeting, Roy Behrens of Dysart will present a program on interesting, little known bits of Iowa history. He will be ...
AMES – The La Porte-Dysart FFA Chapter took 13 students to the 97th annual Iowa FFA Convention, held at the Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. FFA Members participated in Leadership Development Events and Career Development Events at the convention including Prepared Public Speaking, Ag ...
DYSART – Staff, students, and volunteers with UNI’s Tallgrass Prairie Center (TPC) conducted a successful spring burn at Irvine Prairie northeast of Dysart in rural Benton County on Sunday, April 6, with ignition beginning just after 1:30 p.m. According to Mallory Sage, TPC community ...
DYSART – The annual Dysart Arbor Day celebration and tree planting will take place at Dysart-Geneseo Elementary on Friday, April 25, at 2:15 p.m. A shade tree will be planted west of the new playground behind the school building. Dysart is again a Tree City USA, and the new Tree City Flag ...
WATERLOO – For the fourth straight year, the Union High School Academic Decathlon team took home a state title, thereby earning a trip to Nationals next month. As in years past, Union was crowned Small School Champion during the Iowa Academic Decathlon State Competition held March 7-8 at ...
CEDAR FALLS – Longtime Dysart resident Catharine Wieck – colloquially and affectionately known as the community’s ‘tree lady’ – was honored late last month in Cedar Falls during the 19th Annual MercyOne Heroes Among Us Awards Celebration as the 2024 Environmental Hero ...
ANKENY – Catheryn ‘Cathy’ Irvine of Dysart was named Outstanding Legacy Project by the Iowa Urban Tree Council during the 34th Annual Urban Forestry Awards Ceremony held on April 3, at the FFA Enrichment Center in Ankeny. Cathy and her late husband, David, lived on a family farm in ...
CLUTIER – A controlled burn became a bit more than some area farmers could manage last Saturday (March 22) evening when the winds unexpectedly increased, leading to both the Clutier and Dysart Fire Departments stepping in to assist. “Saturday was a decent day to burn actually, it was ...