Students at Lenihan Intermediate are seeing if they have or can develop musical skills. On Thursday, the fifth graders “tried out” for musical instruction. Some of them had their first encounters with the instruments such as flutes, clarinets, trumpets, trombones and tubas. Fifth ...
WATERLOO – The reigning Iowa Music Awards Country Artist of the Year, local favorite Katie and the Honky Tonks, are back with “Last Call Lies,” their first new release since last year’s breakout debut album, “Ain’t No Shame.” If you’ve been hankering for another dose of ...
TOLEDO — The mayors sat side by side at the pinnacle of the table, the leaders of two towns coming together for the interest of the greater community last Thursday night. The Police Chiefs sat to the right, elbow to elbow, ready to answer questions. All other interested parties, the city ...
Iowa Environmental Council’s annual “condition of the state” report on Iowa’s electric generation shows that while wind continues to dominate Iowa’s electricity generation sources, there has been a “reversal” in the state’s progress to meet energy demand with renewable sources. ...
Rob Sand, current state auditor and Democratic candidate for governor, said simplifying inspections and cutting red tape that stands in the way of building new housing will help improve affordability. Sand spoke Thursday morning at the Frank W. Smith Retirement Center, a recently renovated ...
Rogers Elementary School kindergarten teachers Courtney Arp and Megan Cutright are both in their 15th years as educators, and neither of them have ever experienced anything like their current situation at the start of the 2026-2027 school year: three sets of identical twins in the same class. ...
