Farmers upstream of the Des Moines region are eligible for cover crop incentives as part of state legislation to improve water quality in central Iowa. The expanded incentive program, which Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced Monday, is the“first of several” conservation ...
A Marshalltown man was arrested Friday over allegations that he made multiple unwanted sexual advances against a victim last week. Gerald James Kremer, 78, was charged with assault with intent to commit sexual abuse, an aggravated misdemeanor. As of Monday afternoon, he was no longer listed ...
The State Center Rose Festival hosted its annual parade Saturday morning, drawing hundreds of onlookers lined up along Main Street to watch the entries. Candy was tossed to eager children, filling their bags with their new treasures. Some parade entries helped the audience with the heat by ...
STATE CENTER - Inside Washington #4 on Main Street, retired teacher Julie Lang sat at the front desk in period-style garb, with papers bearing age-appropriate words to use for the annual Rose Festival One-Room Schoolhouse Spelling Bees. “I come every year for the Rose Festival,” she ...
TRAER – Nearly 50 years ago, in celebration of America's Bicentennial, the Traer community buried a time capsule just north of the gazebo in Taylor Park. On Saturday, June 6, the vault was unearthed as part of an effort spearheaded by members of the local park committee. “After nearly 50 ...
The second-most-expensive project in the Iowa Department of Transportation’s 2027-31 highway construction program needs more money. The Gordon Drive Viaduct in Sioux City is scheduled to be replaced in 2027-30 at a cost of $206 million. It’s marked as “underfunded” with the note that ...