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Dysart News

Union CSD to install new playground at Dysart-Geneseo Elementary

DYSART – The Union Community School District will install a new playground at Dysart-Geneseo Elementary School the week of August 12. To cover the full cost of the playground, members of the Dysart-Geneseo Playground Committee fundraised approximately $200,000 dollars through private ...

Tenderloin three-peat!

DYSART – For the third year running, the breaded pork tenderloin at Harper’s Public House in downtown Dysart has been designated one of the best in the state by the Iowa Pork Producers Association – a feat leading co-owner Jenna Scott to hope third time really is the charm and ...

Dysart’s annual Golf Cart Cruise set for Aug. 15

DYSART – The annual Dysart Golf Car Cruise will be held on Main Street Dysart on Thursday, Aug. 15 this year with the rain date set for Monday, August 19. Registration will be from 5-6 p.m. with the cruise beginning at 6 p.m. and lasting approximately 30 minutes. There will be music, ...

Dysart Historical Society hosts annual ‘Country School Day’

DYSART – The Dysart Historical Society’s annual Country School Day was held on Tuesday, July 23, and was another great success with the theme ‘An 1890”s Country School Day.’ Eleven girls and boys spent the day in an 1890s country school environment in the Historical Society’s ...

Union Middle School students meet Sen. Chuck Grassley in D.C.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Chuck Grassley spoke with students from Union Middle School on the steps of the U.S. Capitol last week. Grassley and the students discussed the legislative process, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint session to Congress and Grassley’s years of public ...

‘Citizens don’t realize that EMS isn’t already tax-funded’

DYSART – Local emergency medical service agencies are hoping a supermajority of Tama County voters will give the thumbs up this November to funding EMS as essential by approving a new property tax levy. Last week Thursday, the newly formed Tama County EMS Advisory Council held its inaugural ...

Zion Lutheran to host ‘Songs of Summer’ organ concert

DYSART – The songs of summer will soon fill the air at Zion Lutheran Church. Tama County native and North Tama alum Christopher Arp will play a solo organ concert entitled “Songs of Summer” at Zion Lutheran in Dysart next Sunday, July 28, beginning at 2 p.m. Arp is organist and choir ...

Making it her own

DYSART – The Dysart Garden Club recently named Kathi Keidel’s perennial filled flower beds on Park Street as the club’s ‘Blue Ribbon Flowers of the Month’ for July. “I’ve been a gardener my whole life. My grandma kind of got me hooked,” Keidel said last week while taking the ...

Union Board of Education approves bond vote

LA PORTE CITY - The Union Community School District Board of Education has selected a project proposal to make significant improvements across all district schools if a bond referendum is approved on November 5, 2024. The decision follows over two years of facility planning by the board and ...