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 ...
Cemeteries are known to hold untold stories and secrets. Spencer Cemetery, located on County D65 north of Dysart and east of the old Geneseo School, has a secret of its own. Many in the neighborhood have puzzled over recent rumors of an unmarked mass burial site at the cemetery. ...
DES MOINES – The State Historical Society of Iowa’s mobile museum is hitting the road again as it continues its journey to all 99 Iowa counties. Housed in a custom-built Winnebago, the 300-square-foot museum on wheels launched in 2017 and completed its first 99-county tour in 2019, ...
DYSART – From prairie tours to a kiddie bike rodeo and seemingly everything in between, Dysart is ready to celebrate 150 years since its founding. In just over a week's time, the community of Dysart will officially commemorate its Sesquicentennial year by hosting two full days of mostly ...