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Dysart News

Dysart Community Foundation accepting grant applications

The Dysart Community Foundation held its Annual Meeting at 6:30 p.m. on March 20, at the Dysart Community Building. The 2023 Board of Directors for the Foundation elected during the meeting include: Pamela Thiele, Chair, representing the City of Dysart; Sarah Carter, representing the Dysart ...

Monthly Message from Mr. Howard

Greetings from the Union Community School District! This is our second monthly correspondence. The goal is not to communicate everything that occurs in the district but to give community members an overview of important topics in an accurate, clear and timely manner. Facility updates We ...

La Porte-Dysart FFA stacks up a winning Sunday

DYSART – Members of the La Porte-Dysart FFA chapter successfully served hundreds of pancakes to the public last Sunday morning in the Union Middle School cafeteria as part of the group’s annual spring fundraiser. Chapter president Olivia Hanson estimated when all was said and done, ...

Irvine receives ‘Heroes Among Us’ award

CEDAR FALLS – Cathy Irvine added one more accolade to her conservation cap last Thursday in Cedar Falls by receiving the 2022 Environmental Heroes Among Us award from MercyOne Waterloo and Cedar Falls Foundations. Irvine, a retired teacher, has spent much of her retirement working to ...

‘Irish I was in Dysart’

With the help of a howling north wind at their backs, participants in Dysart’s second annual ‘Iowa’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade’ took to Main Street just past noon last Friday and quickly strode down the block in celebration of the holiday. Despite less than ideal weather ...

Dysart native part of UNI advertising team’s Gold ADDY award

UNI students including Dysart native Tate Hookham won a prestigious Gold ADDY award at the AAF-Cedar Valley American Advertising Awards dinner on Friday, Feb. 24, adding an additional accolade earned by their “Quest With Me” creative campaign, developed last spring for Meta as part of ...

Democracy under fire

What was predicted to be a fairly ho-hum election day in Dysart on Tuesday — as most voters in the Geneseo/Clark precinct reside in the Union school district which did not have a ballot measure — turned out to be anything but due to a fire breaking out. Around 11:30 a.m. while most ...

Dysart’s wee St. Paddy’s Day parade returns for second year

After inaugurating a new town tradition last year in the form of ‘Iowa’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day parade,’ the popular event is returning this year better and as small as ever on Friday, March 17. “We are super excited to announce the 2nd Annual Dysart Iowa's Shortest St. ...

Norma Anders Library receives generous Lions Club donation

The Dysart Lions Club recently donated funds to the Norma Anders Public Library to purchase large print books. Their donation of $800.00 helped purchase nearly a year's worth of large print books. "Their support of this collection enables us to meet the needs of our large print readers ...

North Tama, Union Decathlon teams bring home medals

The North Tama and Union Academic Decathlon teams competed at State the weekend of March 4 and 5 in Urbandale, with North Tama placing seventh out of 12 schools for overall team score in the small school division, and Union placing first in the same division. Union’s championship win means ...