LA PORTE CITY – The Union Community School District Board of Education has approved a $20.5 million bond referendum that will appear on the ballot Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Petitions asking the board to place the bond question on the ballot circulated in the communities in recent weeks. After ...
IRVINE PRAIRIE – What do prairie roots look like? A recent dig at Irvine Prairie north of Dysart set out to answer that very question. Last Monday and Tuesday, August 5 and 6, staff with UNI’s Tallgrass Prairie Center (TPC) dug a pit – roughly 10 feet deep and 12 feet wide – and ...
DYSART – Law enforcement officers, by the nature of their jobs, often meet people in less than ideal circumstances, but National Night Out – an annual event held in cities across the country on the first Tuesday in August – aims to foster police-community partnerships by bringing them ...
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 ...
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 – 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 – 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 ...
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 ...
DYSART – Dysart’s summer tradition returned last Friday, July 19, when the Dysart Development Corporation (DDC) hosted its 22nd annual Car, Truck & Bike Show. The event is growing in size, popularity and scope with 161 entries this year. "Our goal every year is to grow the ...
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 ...