INDIANOLA – Sarah Roberts of La Porte City has been named to the Spring 2024 Dean's List at Simpson College. Roberts qualified for the academic honor by earning a grade point average between 3.70 and 3.99 during the semester. Simpson College is a private, liberal arts college located in ...
WAVERLY – Wartburg College awarded dipolomas to 211 students during Spring Commencement on Sunday, May 26, including Madison Frush and Silver Schmitz. Frush, of La Porte City, graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in exercise science. Schmitz, also of La Porte City, graduated ...
TRAER – North Tama, Traer-Clutier and Traer's honored alumni will gather for a reunion on Friday and Saturday, August 9 and 10 during the annual Winding Stairs Festival. Eight honored classes have been especially invited to attend the festivities including Traer's Class of 1954 (70 years) and ...
TAMA – For anyone taking a stroll through the 600 block of Tama’s Oswego Street this summer, renovations on the old Catholic church by the nonprofit Tama-Toledo Christian School may appear to have stalled as of late but according to Rep. Dean Fisher, president of the school’s board of ...
DYSART – The Dysart Historical Society’s annual Country School Day was held on Tuesday, July 23, and was another great success with the theme ‘An 1890”s Country School Day.’ Eleven girls and boys spent the day in an 1890s country school environment in the Historical Society’s ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sen. Chuck Grassley spoke with students from Union Middle School on the steps of the U.S. Capitol last week. Grassley and the students discussed the legislative process, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s joint session to Congress and Grassley’s years of public ...
TRAER – Starting June 5, summer participants began signing up for the Traer Library’s Annual Summer Reading Program. This year’s theme, “Adventure Begins At Your Library,” involves students coloring their personal “explorer” who advances to each continent as the reader achieves ...
DECATUR, Ill. – Rebekah Leipold of Buckingham recently graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Theatre & Performance from Millikin University. Leipold was one of more than 270 graduates recognized during the 2024 Spring Commencement ceremonies at the Kirkland Fine Arts Center on May ...
LA PORTE CITY - The Union Community School District Board of Education has selected a project proposal to make significant improvements across all district schools if a bond referendum is approved on November 5, 2024. The decision follows over two years of facility planning by the board and ...
Telegraph note: This story first published last week in the Sun Courier newspaper. It is being reprinted in this week's Telegraph as a courtesy to our readers. REINBECK – Dale Wambold may not have been born and raised in Reinbeck – or even Grundy County, for that matter – but after ...