DYSART – For years, the poor condition of Dysart-Geneseo Elementary’s almost 35-year-old playground was something district administrators had to let slide – but not any longer following a recent decision to say goodbye to the aging structure. During the school’s final assembly of ...
LA PORTE CITY - The La Porte City Women’s Club voted during the group’s May meeting to donate a substantial amount to the effort to establish a Little Knights Learning Center (LKLC) in La Porte City. A donation of $4,000 from the LPC Women’s Club to the future daycare was shared that ...
TRAER - Traer's P.E.O. Chapter awarded scholarships to seniors (left to right) Grace Lidgett, Madison McKee, and Ella McKiernan during North Tama’s annual Senior Awards Night ceremony held on May 16 in the high school gym. Scholarships were presented by P.E.O. president Marguerite Hulme.
Almost 80 students from Union High School joined forces with staff of the Tallgrass Prairie Center, AmeriCorps service members, and UNI students on May 25 to transplant more than 2,300 native plants at Irvine Prairie located in rural Dysart. Under the direction of TPC staff and Union science ...
AMES – Nearly 4,600 graduates received degrees from Iowa State University this spring including many students local to Clutier, Dysart, and Traer. Graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremonies were held May 11-13 at Hilton Coliseum. Alumna Trudy Huskamp Peterson, the first woman ...
CEDAR RAPIDS – Molly Jean Kvidera and Dana Schoenmann, both of Dysart, recently graduated from Mount Mercy University. Commencement was held Sunday, May 14, at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids. Kvidera received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Summa Cum Laude, while ...
SIOUX CITY – Morningside University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Chris Spicer announced the 446 students named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester of the 2022-23 academic year including Dylan Hosek of Traer. The Dean’s List recognizes Morningside students ...
TRAER – North Tama’s bond referendum is heading back to the voters this fall if all goes to plan. During the May 15 North Tama school board meeting, board members voted on a series of motions to restart the process for placing two public measures on the ballot this coming November — ...
DYSART - Dysart-Geneseo Elementary fourth-grader Gage Torres was recently announced as the D-G winner of the Tama Soil and Water Conservation District’s annual Stewardship Week poster contest which celebrated the theme ‘One Water.’ Torres was awarded a $10 prize. His poster is ...
SIOUX CITY – 200 undergraduate students and 247 graduate students graduated from Morningside University on Saturday, May 13 at the commencement ceremony held at Elwood Olsen Stadium on Morningside's campus. Morningside's 2023 commencement marks the first ceremony for President Albert ...