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 ...
It was synch or swim week at Union Middle School (UMS) on Monday morning as the final teams – The Goated Grotes, The Orangutans, Gangsta Girls, The Spore Bros, Kourni, Don’t Stop Believing Jimmy, Sisters from Different Misters, and Gettin’ Lippy With It – took to the auditorium stage as ...
Between the 2021-2022 Union Knights’ boys and girls wrestling seasons, there’s now two state champions among their ranks with freshman Jace Hedeman capturing the 106 pounds championship title Saturday evening in Des Moines, thereby joining Union freshman Jillian Worthen who did the same in ...
Republican Tony Chavez, 26, of Cedar Falls, recently announced his intentions to run for the new Iowa House District 76. “Bringing people together to solve the bigger issues has always been my passion,” Chavez said as part of a press release. “After being involved in local politics, ...