DYSART – Residents will have the opportunity to share their ideas for improving the City of Dysart at a design workshop hosted by the Dysart Community Visioning committee at the Community Center on Friday, June 9. This workshop is the culmination of an input-gathering process to identify ...
This year marks the 101st anniversary of the first graduating class from the Geneseo Consolidated School. There were four graduates that year. Through the years, the school and district underwent several changes including a new addition to the school built and dedicated in April of 1955. ...
DYSART - Dysart-Geneseo Elementary fourth-grader Gage Torres was recently announced as the D-G winner of the Tama Soil and Water Conservation District’s annual Stewardship Week poster contest which celebrated the theme ‘One Water.’ Torres was awarded a $10 prize. His poster is ...
DYSART – The Great Dysart Gorge is in need of a makeover – and the funds to do so. Beginning this week, Anthony Gasco with Accent Painting and Refinishing of La Porte City will be working to repaint the giant anamorphic illusion on Dysart’s downtown Main Street. The Great Dysart ...
DYSART — Happy EMS Week! THANK YOU to the dedicated members of the Dysart Ambulance Service! Our volunteers include Randie Brodigan, Nick Barthelmy, Mary Wankowicz, Tim Glenn, Robyn Pickering Midyett, Ken Midyett, Jackie Obrosk, Katie Riggins, Amanda Schneider, Tracie Smith, Ken Tanner and ...
Wolf Creek Players members including (first photo, left to right) Jeremy Hartman, Brayden Ryan, and Jana Ryan perform the play “Now and Then” by Sean Grennan last Sunday afternoon in Dysart in the Union Middle School auditorium. Sandi Hulst (not pictured) also was part of the group’s ...
DYSART – D-G Elementary fourth and fifth graders took to the middle school auditorium stage in Dysart last week Thursday to perform in the annual spring music concert. As part of the concert theme ‘Everyday Superheroes,’ students were given the option to dress as ‘everyday heroes’ ...
A controlled burn was conducted by members of UNI’s Tallgrass Prairie Center (TPC) last week Tuesday on a roughly 20 acre tract of the Irvine Prairie as part of ongoing restorative work at the rural Dysart prairie-in-progress. After having to reschedule a couple of times due to poor ...
DYSART – One of the best ways to enjoy the outdoors this time of year is to take a woodland walk in search of spring ephemerals – and there’s no better place to do so than in Dysart’s own urban woodland, the Viola Irvine Nature Preserve. With the guidance of local conservationist ...
DYSART – As the community of Dysart gears up to officially celebrate 150 years since its founding this July 2–3, several events are already underway in the community including an art contest. Sponsored by the Fine Arts Women’s Club, the Dysart Sesquicentennial Fine Arts Contest – ...