Following a 12-11 season, the Union Knights boys basketball team was awarded with three players named to the North Iowa Cedar League East All-Conference teams. Senior Grant Behrens was named a first team all-conference selection. Behrens finished his season as the Knights’ leading scorer and ...
Beginning at 7:00 a.m. on Monday, March 28, those who use and frequent Hwy 21 between the Elberon turn at E44 and U.S. 30 will need to find an alternate route to their destination for at least the next 18 months as construction begins on a new interchange project. The planned closure on Hwy ...
Union High School students cut up the dance floor at Matt Auditorium last week during the school’s spring musical performance of “Footloose.” The show featured junior Joe Bistline (Ren McCormack) and Elle Hookham (Ariel Moore) as the leads in the musical adaptation of Herbert Ross’ 1984 ...
1. Budget adopted A public hearing was held during the regular meeting of the Dysart City Council on March 9 for the proposed city budget for fiscal year 2023. No public comments were made during the hearing. A resolution to adopt the annual budget for the next fiscal year passed unanimously. ...
What’s being touted as “Iowa’s shortest St. Patrick’s Day parade” by Dysart Mayor Tim Glenn, is set to briefly march down Dysart’s Main Street beginning – and quite possibly ending – at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 17. At the conclusion of the regular Dysart City Council ...
More wind turbines are in the works for Tama County. If all goes to plan, those who live and own land in the rural spaces of Tama County’s northeastern quadrant from roughly Buckingham in the north to the outskirts of Elberon in the south can expect to get to know land agent Max Thompson as ...
Community members within the Union Community School District will have two opportunities to interact with the district's hiring search for its next superintendent of schools. On February 21 the district accepted the resignation of Superintendent Travis Fleshner following the February 16 ...
Helmed by first-year head coach Corey Lorenzen, the Union boys’ basketball team made it to Round 2 of the postseason this year – putting in a good finish against a dogged Jesup team, but ending the story there, losing to the J-Hawks 50-70. “We got off to a slow start,” Lorenzen said of ...
Derek Wulf, a farmer/rancher from Hudson, recently announced he will be seeking the Republican nomination for Iowa House District 76. Beginning with the 90th Iowa General Assembly in January 2023, the new House District 76 will encompass parts of the current House District 60 in Cedar Falls as ...
1. Instructional calendar During the regular meeting of the Union Board of Education on Monday, Feb. 21, the 2022-2023 instructional calendar was approved with the board choosing Option A which included a traditional spring break. Superintendent Travis Fleshner shared Option A received the ...