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‘Disappointed’: IRGC grants Cedar Rapids casino license

ALTOONA It wasn’t the result Washington County was hoping for, and leaders fought hard to prevent it, but the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission concluded Thursday that the proposed Cedar … more

Highland and WACO Schools choose new Superintendent

RIVERSIDE Spencer Leuders, intermediate school principal at Central Dewitt, will be the new Superintendent of Schools at Highland Community Schools and WACO Community School District. … more

Priority number one for legislators: casino moratorium

WASHINGTON At the end of the first week of Iowa’s 2025 legislative session, State Senator Dawn Driscoll and Representative Heather Hora spent time with constituents at their first legislative … more

GOOD BEANS

WELLMAN Prior to owning Kalona Coffee House with wife Rhonda, as he has since 2010, Jeff Yoder was never really that into coffee. She was the passionate one, learning the ropes at Caribou Coffee … more

Everyone in the pool!

WASHINGTON The ribbon cutting at the Washington YMCA’s new Aquatic Center on Tuesday, Dec. 10 was nothing short of a “momentous event.” The gathering of donors and community members from … more

ALL THAT JAZZ

DES MOINES When dancers from Lone Tree and Mid-Prairie high schools arrived in Des Moines on Dec. 4, their hearts raced with excitement and nerves. They had been preparing for this weekend since … more

Riverboat Foundation awards $1.4 million in fall grants

RIVERSIDE Smiles abounded Wednesday night at the Riverside Casino’s ballroom, where representatives of area cities and nonprofits gathered for the Washington County Riverboat Foundation’s … more

MCC volunteers can pork bound for Ukraine

KALONA For the last two years, volunteers working in the Mennonite Central Committee’s mobile canning trailer docked in Kalona have canned chicken. This year, they canned about 9,000 units of … more

Behind the scenes with the EagleBots

IOWA CITY For six hours a week, often more, you’ll find 15 high school students working nights and weekends in the basement of a building at the Johnson County Fairgrounds. They aren’t … more

Almost famous

KALONA Back in 2015, Lee Ebersole, Doug Schmieder, and Tony Stutzman were helping out the pep band one evening at what is today Hillcrest Academy. When the principal saw Stutzman carrying in his … more

Cruisin’ through Signapalooza

WEST CHESTER Hal Colliver’s West Chester farmstead is like the Iowa 80 Truckstop: its big, its blingy, and everyone really should pull in at least once. When you do, expect to meet a few … more

2024 General Election Results

FEDERAL President Donald Trump (55.9%) Kamala Harris (42.7%) U.S. House Iowa District 1 (1 seat) • Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R, incumbent) (3,845) • Christina Bohannan (D) (2,321) STATE … more

‘It feels like somebody is trying to take away our voice’

RIVERSIDE When Eileen Beran, Janice Weiner, and their spouses met up at a Riverside cornfield to reposition a handful of political signs on Monday afternoon, they instead confronted an unwelcome … more

Ed Chabal, Iowa Senate candidate

KALONA When Washington resident Ed Chabel announced he was challenging Dawn Driscoll for the Iowa Senate District 46 seat about a year ago, those who knew him were surprised. “I’m not a … more

Anna Banowsky, Iowa House candidate

KALONA As an undergraduate studying political science, Anna Banowsky thought running for office might be an interesting thing to do in the future. Now a graduate student at the University of Iowa, … more

Nicholas Gluba, U.S. Congressional candidate

KALONA Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, which encompasses the cities of Davenport, Iowa City, Burlington, and Indianola, is considered one of the least Republican districts in the state. … more

Kalona loses a keystone business

KALONA For those who have studied animal science, the concept of a ‘keystone species’ is a familiar one. The Oxford dictionary defines it as “a species on which other species in an ecosystem … more

Cornerstone Community Church aims to “Fill the Truck” for hurricane relief

KALONA Recovery from hurricane Helene may take years, but folks living without power and water, “camping” in their homes for the time being, benefit from relief efforts that bring them needed … more

The backstage secret: Bad Angle Events uses fine arts to bring us together

KALONA “Since the beginning of human existence, the ways in which we have gathered have changed, but the reasons we come together have not. We are ultra-social creatures who biologically evolved … more

Preserving life: Washington County schools receive Stop the Bleed kits

RIVERSIDE Your average elementary schooler’s body contains about 5.5 pints of blood. Your average woman: 9 pints. Your average man: 12 pints. And when it starts to spill or spurt out of us, it … more
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