Community

The Washington City Council will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, at 120 E. Main St.Items on the agenda include: a presentation from IMWCA, a public hearing on the courthouse sewer separation project, consideration of a resolution awarding the courthouse sewer separation project, resolution for the 2015 street financial report, resolution amending cemetery rates, revising the job description for park superintenden...

Sister Janet Kreber of Sioux City arrived at the home of Winifred Fritz on the evening of July 24. She was Winifred?s guest until the morning of July 27. On Saturday, July 25, Sister Janet visited friends in Washington. She enjoyed lunch in Washington with friends from Wayland. Saturday night, Winifred and Sister Janet attended the Mass at Richland. It was held in honor of Helen and Elmer ?Bud? Adam?s 67th ...

4-H?ers cooked up some Iowa pride during the 11th annual Pride of Iowa contest during the Washington County Fair. Contestants each prepared a recipe with an ingredient or ingredients representative of Iowa. During the contest, participants handed out samples of their food, showed how to make their recipe, and answered questions from fair goers. Participants could enter as an individual 4-H?er, team of 4-H?ers, or ...

The Washington County Board of Supervisors will meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, at the courthouse.Items on the agenda include: letter of support for 2016 RAGBRAI overnight stay in Washington, secondary road use permit application for Iowa City Cycling Club, fireworks permits, personnel change request for treasurer, personnel change request for the assessor and Washington County Hospital and Clinics revenue bonds.

SOCHI, Russia (AP) ? Leave it to figure skating and judging, where winning can be obscured by whining.Any sport without a finish line or clock or some definitive standard is subject to skepticism about the results. It has happened at the Olympics before, and now it?s happened at Sochi after Adelina Sotnikova skated away with the gold medal, the first for a Russian woman in the individual event.Social media was ...

Descendants and extended family of Carol and Maud Krumboltz and George and Gertrude Bailey Anderson will have a reunion 4-7 p.m. Aug. 9 at the Brighton Community Center in Brighton.Photos and memorabilia to display and information on family history will be appreciated.Bring a dish to share and personal table service. Drinks will be supplied by the reunion committee: Bob Anderson, Ranee Fladung and Kathleen ...

The 98th Crile reunion was July 26 at the Brighton Community Center in Brighton.A potluck lunch was served. Fellowship, sharing of the past year?s events and planning the 100th reunion, which will be in 2017, were conducted.The 99th reunion will be July 31 at the Brighton Community Center. The committee for the reunion is Kathleen Anderson, Loretta Diers and Alisha Hird.Attendees were: Marvin and Phyllis ...

The Wagner reunion will be held Sunday, Aug. 9, at the Central Park Community Center (south side of Washington square). The center will open at 12 with potluck dinner at 12:30 pm. Caldwell relations are welcome to attend. Please send updates to Marsha Jones, mjjones87@yahoo.com or request to join Wagner, descendants of Sebastion on facebook.

The Keota School Board will meet at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 4.Items on the agenda include: consent items, high school HVAC system, name bank depositories, EagleRock! Trip, IASB legislative priorities, administrative reports and class offerings comparison.

SOCHI, Russia (AP) ? An unidentified German athlete has failed a drug test in the first announced doping case of the Sochi Olympics.The German Olympic Committee said Friday it had been notified by the IOC late Thursday that one of its athletes had tested positive on an "A'' sample. The backup "B'' sample will be analyzed Friday, the German committee said.The Germans did not name the athlete, the sport or the ...

Washington County Extension will reshow both the Commercial and Confinement Manure Applicator Programs on Friday, Aug. 7, for those who were unable to attend a workshop. These programs are shown free of charge on the first Friday of each month. Applicators who needs to schedule a reshow at any other time will be charged a fee per person.The Commercial Manure Program (three hours in length) will be shown at 8:30 ...

The Wayland Lions Club held its July meeting on Tuesday, July 21, at the Wayland Community Center. There were 11 members present and two guest speakers.President Ron Marsh called the meeting to order and led the Pledge of Allegiance. Roger Roth gave the Invocation; then the meeting was adjourned for a delicious meal catered by Alice Hofstetler.When the meeting was called back to order, Terry Kaufman gave the ...