RURAL DYSART – Under the shade of two towering maple trees and surrounded by a mixture of blooming woodland and prairie flowers, UNI’s Tallgrass Prairie Center (TPC) hosted a free folk concert across the road from the Irvine Prairie last Saturday afternoon. The event drew some 60 people ...
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The 12th annual Dysart Golf Car Cruise will be held on August 10. The rain date is Monday, August 14. Registration will begin at 5 p.m. on Main Street, and the cruise will start at 6 p.m. There will be music and free popcorn. Spectators are invited to bring a lawn chair and join the fun. ...
Ten students from the Union High School agriculture program recently returned from 10 days on the Emerald Isle, enjoying an educational tour organized by high school agriculture instructor Adam Sacquitne. They were joined by another ag student from Benton Community High School and Maureen ...
DYSART – More than 150 entries were featured in Dysart’s 21st Annual Classic Car, Truck & Bike Show held along downtown Main Street last Friday afternoon and evening. Fifty-three trophies were awarded. The annual show was sponsored by DDC (Dysart Development Corporation), Dysart Tire ...
DYSART – Kansas-based musician Ann Zimmerman will present an evening of music in celebration of prairie at the Irvine Prairie located northeast of Dysart beginning at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 29. According to her website, Zimmerman’s music celebrates “the joy, sorrow, grandeur and ...
DYSART – The Dysart Lions Club Independence Day parade took place last week Tuesday under perfect blue skies and to a packed house along Main Street. Downtown crowds for the parade – which began on the western edge of Dysart at Union Middle School – were the biggest many event ...
DYSART – The Dysart Lions Club alongside Mayor Tim Glenn dedicated a tree in city park on Sunday, July 2 as part of the community’s Sesquicentennial celebrations. A Northern Japanese elm was selected for the planting due to both its diversity and ability to fit the chosen space well, ...
DYSART – One-hundred-and-fifty years after its founding as the location for the first Tama County depot on what would eventually become the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern Railway, the community of Dysart celebrated its milestone birthday by hosting two full days of events in and ...
