For the sixth year running, members of the Dysart Police Department partnered with local businesses and community leaders for the annual ‘Shop with a Cop’ event – making Christmas a little more special for several area schoolchildren. Similar to last year, on Monday, Dec. 12, eight ...
A Vision Dysart downtown pocket park project in the works since April of 2021 overcame its seemingly final hurdle during last Wednesday’s city council meeting and is now slated to break ground in the spring. Vision Dysart members including president Mary Behrens and secretary Janet Wilson ...
Mrs. Cayton 1st Grade Letters Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! How are you? I have been nice this year! I would like a make up and hair kit. Thank you. Love, Elise - - - Dear Santa, Merry Christmas! How are you? I have been good this year! I would like a slime kit and a tool kit. Thank ...
Members of the Buckingham Boosters 4-H Club spent a cold Saturday morning earlier this month helping set upholiday lights and decorations in Traer’s Taylor Park. Decorating was then wrapped up the weekend of Nov. 19 by additional community volunteers. The park will be officially lit up ...
Telegraph note: Dylan McGivern, 10, of Dysart was chosen to be a 2022-23 Kid Captain during the 2022 Hawkeye Football season. The Kid Captain program is a partnership that began in 2009 between UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital and the Iowa Hawkeyes to honor pediatric patients and ...
Several events were held throughout northern Tama County in honor of Veterans Day this past Friday, Nov. 11 including the annual Veterans Day program held in the North Tama High School gym and the free Veterans Day Meal sponsored by Eikamp Insurance in Dysart. Both events honored those who ...
It’s been over a year since the Union Middle School stage was graced with a performance by Wolf Creek Players but the wait was certainly worth it as the cast of last weekend’s “Monster in the Closet” – dominated by a record number of young performers – lit up the venue with ...
Progress continues on Dysart’s Viola Irvine Nature Preserve – a thickly wooded, 2-acre parcel of land on the southeast side donated to the City last April by local conservationist Cathy Irvine – with new pathways, concrete pads, and tree plantings sprouting up recently. While the planned ...
Following the news that Union High School boys’ soccer sharing agreement with Hudson had landed on the chopping block, the possibility of starting a stand-alone Knights’ team was a hot topic of discussion at the most recent school board meeting. The sharing agreement – in place since at ...
In need of music for a holiday gathering, Christmas party, or church meeting? The Union Carolers are now accepting bookings for events throughout eastern Iowa. The Union Carolers are an a cappella ensemble that provides about 20 minutes of holiday music for any festive event, all while ...