LAUREL - How much is a pie worth? Especially when money paid for it goes to a worthwhile cause? Members of the Laurel community participated in a pie auction, run by The Dirt Dealer auctioneers, during the third annual Laurel’s Midsummer Carnival and Car Show for a Cause. Some pies were ...
TAMA - Last week’s South Tama County school board meeting was akin to the drama of soap opera. With highs and lows, tied voting, and appearances from fresh faces in the audience, the meeting was packed full of information. Starting off the meeting in the usual way, a community member spoke ...
Apple has its first box-office hit. “F1 The Movie” debuted with $55.6 million in North American theaters and $144 million globally over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, handing the tech company easily its biggest opening yet. Though Apple Original Films has had some ...
Mrs. Eveleth, 4th grade teacher, and Mrs. Schoenfelder, 2nd grade teacher, left photo, were recognized for the 20 years of teaching at St. Francis Catholic School. Mrs. Schmidt, kindergarten teacher, and Mrs. Simons, 5th grade teacher, right photo, were honored for the years of dedicated ...
STATE CENTER — A building in State Center once described as “the perfect model for a small-town gas station” has received a coveted placement on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The National Park Service – a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior- recently ...
Retired Marshalltown High School math teacher and Otto Welfring may be pushing 92 years old, but that doesn’t mean he’s stopped pushing himself — he either rides the exercise bike or lifts weights at The Willows, where he resides, almost every day. And he doesn’t just do it for fun. ...