Farm Credit Services of America (FCSAmerica) announced today that eligible customer-owners in Tama County will receive checks this month totaling $ 1 million their share of the financial cooperative's $160 million cash-back dividend for 2015.FCSAmerica has distributed a portion of its net ...
Several Union Middle School Band members participated in the NEIBA Solo Ensemble Contest on March 10th, 2016. The contest was a great success. Red ribbons and "Excellent" ratings were awarded to 6th graders Mae Deaton on alto saxophone solo, Jocelyn Gates on clarinet solo, and Gabe Hanson on ...
The exciting and inspiring agricultural exhibit, "It Takes an Iowan," is coming to the Dysart Community Building April 13 to 18th. The exhibit was commissioned by the Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area of which Dysart is a part. The exhibit was featured at the the 2015 Iowa ...
Wolf Creek Players Community Theater will be hosting another Union High Speech Showcase on Friday, April 8 at the St. Joseph's building in Dysart at 7:00 p.m.The public is invited to attend the performances that were taken to speech contests throughout the winter. Again the speech department, ...
Ascalon Masonic Lodge will hold its annual "Pancakes for Scholarships" Day on Sunday, March 20th, at the Dysart Community Building.Serving will be from 8:00 A.M. until 12:30 P.M.The menu will include: regular and blueberry pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, and beverages.There will be a free ...
An area corn grower has been honored as one of 18 national winners in the 2015 National Corn Yield Contest sponsored annually by the National Corn Growers Association.Mike Kaufman of Dysart, IA, placed third in the nation in the AA Non-Irrigated Class with a yield of 328.6876 bushels per acre. ...
For the second year in a row, the Union School Fine Arts Department has enrolled in a unique and relatively new national program-The Iowa High School Musical Theatre Awards. This program is a state subsidiary of the National Program that celebrates work local high school students do in the ...
Rep. Dean Fisher (R-Garwin) recently donated $500 of his unused legislative expenses to the Dysart Fire Department, which will be used help pay for new equipment. So far this year, Rep. Fisher has donated $6,500 to local volunteer fire departments around his legislative district. Pictured here ...
The Dysart Community Foundation held its annual meeting February 23, at the Dysart City Hall. The 2016 Board of Directors for the Foundation elected during the meeting, include: Chairperson Brian Weber representing the Union Community School; Vice-Chair Mark Hookham representing the Farmers ...
Hora-Machacek Auxiliary met on Wednesday, March 2nd at the post home in Clutier. Day started at 9am cleaning trellises and crosses which we use to decorate graves on Memorial day.New poppies were put on and ribbons put on the trellises. Those helping were: Eileen Hora, Lillian Dostal, Martha ...