Julie Scadden has officially begun her duties as Dysart Ambulance Director after being hired last month to take over for the retiring Steve Weekley.Scadden comes to Dysart after spending the last three and a half years as the Ambulance Director for Lisbon-Mt. Vernon and has worked in EMS for 28 ...
After five years in town, Reverend Linda Butler retired from preaching at Dysart United Methodist Church this past weekend with one last sermon and plenty of goodbyes.Butler was the churches' first female pastor assigned to them through the United Methodist system. According to Butler, a pastor ...
Approximately 50 vendors lined the streets of downtown Dysart for the 6th Annual Back Roads Vintage Market, where area vendors showed off their unique crafts to locals and art enthusiasts."This is a repurposed/antique vendor market they can sell their wares with our local businesses," Rhonda ...
Students at both Union Middle and High School have a sweet opportunity to learn more about honeybees through a $5,000 grant provided by Pioneer Hybrid which the Dysart-La Porte FFA has used to learn about the misunderstood creatures and build hives outside of the schools."We got the grant last ...
Approximately 30 students from Union High School took a field trip down to Dysart to help along the progress of the Great Dysart Gorge anamorphic art piece down Main Street on Monday, May 21.Delays in the artwork have been caused by rain on Saturday and drizzle as the students arrived in town. ...
After more than a year of concentrated effort by Wanda Petersen and members of the Dysart community, Little Knights Learning Center for infants to 12 year olds will open at Dysart Elementary on August 1."There's always been a lack of infant daycare in Dysart," Petersen, a member of the Dysart ...
For 40 years, Rhonda Harrison has been the friendly face at Dysart Drive In on Highway 21, serving up ice cream, burgers, tenderloins as she has since working the business with her parents Tony and Dorothy Pospisil in the beginning.Dysart Drive In was first opened in 1960 by Vivian Wiebbecke, ...
In his 20 years as Ambulance Director in Dysart, Steve Weekly has been in nearly every house in the community for various reasons. Maybe a senior citizen has fallen and needs help getting up. Perhaps someone doesn't know how their medical supplies works and requires instruction. Whatever has ...
The baseball diamond at Dysart Park is getting a $8,000 renovation later this spring led by local efforts to restore the field to a playable state."Last summer over little league the field got to the point it was evident we wouldn't be able to fix it up unless we did something soon," Chris ...
The idea that robots could bring together high school students from different social groups together as a team seems rather far-fetched, yet that's exactly what the Fiercely Uknighted Nation (FUN) from Union High school do each time they meet."Basically, we tell kids we're building robots, but ...