What happens in Lake of the Ozarks stays in Missouri. Last week was the annual trip of about a dozen of us four hours south to the resort area built around the lake created when the Bagnell Dam …

I sat in my living room with the surround sound precisely set up with extra subwoofer and a center room balance on April 1. A massive Space Launch system sat quietly on the Florida coast, …

Noah Petersen and Priscilla Villarreal live 1,200 miles from each other, Petersen in Newton, Iowa; Villarreal in Laredo, Texas. They share a key connection despite that distance. Each has encountered …

There’s something about this time of year that just feels like a fresh start, and that feeling for me, begins when our local greenhouses open their doors for the season. It’s more than just …

When I was a little boy I had an imaginary playmate, Cappy.  Being the youngest of eight children, and there being a three year gap between my next oldest sibling, a girl, Angel, and me, and …

Bob Grossenkemper One of the great things about living in a rural area with a small main street is the people you run into that you probably should’ve run into a long time ago. One of the …

It's been going on for 28 years, the Lawler Easter Egg Hunt.  It rivals the City of Mt. Pleasant's Easter Egg Hunt which is on the same day, at the same time.  But there's plenty to go …

Fort Madison’s Mexican heritage runs deeper than many realize, and it holds a unique distinction as the oldest Mexican community in Iowa. This past weekend, we took an important step in honoring …

It’s basketball crazy time and I’ve been watching my share of it over the past couple days. The best so far has been the Kentucky/Santa Clara game where a 3-pointer looked to secure the upset win …

  To the Editor, I currently serve on the county’s Opioid Settlement Fund Committee, the group tasked with reviewing and recommending whether applications for opioid settlement funds …

City leaders in Des Moines are making it difficult to understand why they selected the new police chief, considering how they have imposed a code of silence about their recent $975,000 payout to one …

Bittersweet. That’s the overwhelming sense of emotion that sat in the boardroom on the Central Lee campus Thursday night. Superintendent Dr. Andy Crozier produced an agenda for the meeting that …