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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
DYSART – The weather was truly spectacular last Thursday at mid-morning for Dysart’s annual Lions Club Grand Parade held in celebration of Independence Day – temperatures topped out in the upper 70s and the sun mostly shone amid a smattering of clouds and the occasional sprinkle. ...
IOWA CITY – In May, more than 6,500 University of Iowa undergraduate, graduate, and professional students received their degrees. The 2024 spring semester graduates have engaged, excelled, and stretched to reach their academic goals. For example, Abbi Shekleton always knew she wanted to be ...