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Hora-Machacek Auxiliary plans sewing day

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CLUTIER – The Auxiliary did not have a December meeting. January 7, 2025, will be a sewing day beginning at 9 a.m. We will sew lap quilts for Veterans and cut grocery bags for crocheting into sleep mats. Potluck lunch at noon. Monthly meeting in the afternoon. If weather may be an issue, ...

Snow by Snow

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TOLEDO – After waking up to a county blanketed in a dove white fluffy coating of snow, the usual Monday morning group of government conscious citizens sullied the fallen snowflakes with their footprints as they came out to attend last week's supervisors meeting. Tama County Engineer Ben ...

In the Sky: December

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December will be an interesting month in the sky. Brilliant Venus will be unmistakable, shining in a fully dark sky. It will set about three hours after the Sun in early December, and it will climb even higher before it starts to descend in late January. Saturn will rule southwestern sky where ...

Miller accepted into Wartburg’s Teacher Education Program

Education

WAVERLY – Karsyn Miller has been accepted into the Wartburg College Teacher Education Program. Miller, of La Porte City, had to demonstrate effective reflective components in teaching and complete several other requirements to be considered for the program. Admission to the Teacher ...

MEMBERS1st to distribute bonus dividends to members

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IOWA – Nearly 10,000 members of MEMBERS1st Community Credit Union will receive between $5-$500 in December, as their portion of a bonus dividend (also known as patronage dividend) distribution taking place December 15. The decision to distribute a bonus dividend totaling more than $175,000 ...

Four-lane Highway 30 finally connects Ames, Cedar Rapids

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Now that Thanksgiving, the traditional end to Iowa’s construction season, has come and gone, it’s time to reflect on a big highway milestone that passed with zero fanfare. In fact, its exact date could have gone unknown had the author not been driving to Des Moines at the right ...

Traer’s decorative transom windows

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TRAER – Many of the older buildings on Second Street in Traer have prism glass in the transom windows, above the main windows. Some of the glass is from the 3-Way Prism Company in Chicago, Ill. The 3-Way prisms are a form of window glass, scientifically arranged so as to gather light from ...

A seriously beautiful bar

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Telegraph note: This story first published in the Sun Courier newspaper on Friday, Nov. 29. It is being reprinted here as a courtesy to our readers. REINBECK – While the name might make a passerby ponder, there is certainly nothing at all disagreeable about Reinbeck’s newest bar. In ...