Famed international French artist Cecile Houel (pronounced “Well”) is honored, pleased and excited.  Tourists aboard a Viking River Cruise will be visiting her art studio on …

I sat about a month ago with Mark Cartwright in the MPR room at Fort Madison High School.I saw a man tired... a retired veteran who spends most of his time at the high school athletic facilities …

It's going to the top!  “Task Force IED”, my third book, is going to the top of the best seller lists.  Amazon has it rated at five stars.  Unlike my first two book that …

Not all of the best medicine comes with a prescription from a physician.Don’t read this to mean I am advocating treating coronavirus with ivermectin, a drug more often used on horses. …

Drive down Main Street of Mediapolis and there's nothing mediocre about this little Iowa town, population 2118.  The street is lined with flowers—petunias, impatiens, Boston ferns, …

I miss Fort Madison.It's not the short trip to Cincinnati I took last week, but more of a back issue.This thing is keeping me from the usual rounds. We're looking at options to get it corrected and …

By Randy EvansPeople in the health care field have worked their tails off since the Covid pandemic hit Iowa with a vengeance in 2020.Doctors, nurses and all manner of technicians and support staff …

I could tell he wanted to ask a question. The young boy kept wandering past me as I wrote a story at the state high school baseball tournament in Iowa City. He and his friends were fascinated by …

Spenser Remick, formerly of Salem, is 35-years old, weighs 320 lbs ±, is 6'3” tall and is well on his way to being a competitor at the World's Strongest Man contest.  …

I want to write about sports today. I really do. Fall sports are just days away from official practices. Anticipation is palpable for another HTC run at state volleyball, the next-man-in …

It is difficult for many of us to muster empathy for people accused of crimes who have complaints about the way police treated them.This lack of empathy probably occurs because ordinary folks do not …

We have a yellow trumpet vine.  Not the standard orange trumpet vine that you see a lot of, but yellow. There was a huge growth of it just west of New London a few years ago.  It was …