Heather Watson of Stockport is one of the many mushroom-hunters in the area. During a search for the fungi last week, Watson discovered the giant mushroom seen here, measured at 6.5 inches.
Sen. Rich Taylor?s legislative update for the week of May 13. Chief Justice Mark Cady said in his State of the Judiciary address that ?Iowans expect their government to operate a full-time, full-service and efficient court system.?The Legislature is working to provide that full-time access to justice with court funding in the Judicial Branch Budget. Senate File 442, approved with strong bipartisan support, ...
AMES ? The Iowa Department of Transportation has a new interactive website for planning travel adventures on Iowa?s bicycle trails.The full-feature site is ideal for planning trips to explore Iowa?s many bicycle trails. The bicycle website is ~One of Iowa D.O.T.?s most popular publications, the Iowa Transportation Map for Bicyclists, is online. Explore the interactive map to plan a trip and find bicycle trail ...
Author and ecologist Richard Register delivers a lecture, ?Rebuilding our cities sustainably,? Wednesday night at Dalby Hall in the Argiro Student Center at Maharishi University of Management. Register spoke about the ways in which cities could be planned to use fewer resources, such as making them more compact by ?building up,? relying on skyscrapers, instead of ?building out.? He said compact cities are more ...
Pence Elementary second graders spent their morning planting flowers around the outside of the school. Erin Harlan, left, and Knox Clingan place sod around freshly planted hostas.
DES MOINES (AP) ? A Des Moines force of snipers and other heavily armed officers responded to what turned out to be an expensive hoax.The Des Moines Register reports that someone reported around 9:40 p.m. Thursday that he'd shot his mother and was inside a home with guns and explosives.The officers raced to the scene, set up barricades and got ready to negotiate with man inside the house. Sgt. Jason Halifax ...
CEDAR RAPIDS (AP) ? Events in Cedar Rapids today will mark the five-year anniversary of a devastating immigration raid at an Iowa meatpacking plant.Immigrants and their families, church representatives, lawyers and other advocates gathered near the federal courthouse at noon for a ritual remembering the 389 people arrested during the raid of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville on May 12, 2008.Event organizers ...
DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa Senate Democrats are offering some modifications to a Medicaid expansion proposal in the hopes of winning support from House Republicans.Democrats continue to support the Medicaid expansion permitted under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. But on Thursday they said they would waive doctor co-pays for patients who get annual physicals and choose healthy behaviors.Democrats say ...
WATERLOO (AP) ? Authorities say a knife has been taken from a third-grader after the boy menaced another boy at a Waterloo school.Superintendent of schools Gary Norris says principal Stephanie Mohome told parents in a letter about Thursday morning's incident at Lincoln Elementary School.Authorities say a boy saw another boy pull the knife and threaten a third boy. The witness told school workers, and the knife ...
Third graders from Van Buren Elementary School visited the Carnegie Historical Museum Tuesday to tour the exhibits. The museum?s mounted animals were particularly popular with the trio of children seen here, who are, from left, Nathan Davidson, Steven Ontiveros and Ethan Deshane.
By the calendar, planting corn is behind schedule compared to last year in Jefferson County and southeast Iowa, but it?s not time to switch seed yet, said Iowa State University Extension field agronomist Mark Carlton.?Compared to last year, planting is late,? he said. ?But 2012 was an exceptional year, and corn was planted early.?We still have a couple more weeks to get the 110-to-114?days maturation seed in ...
Colby Jones, left, indulges his sweet tooth Saturday by purchasing a bottle of honey from Charles Newton at the Fairfield Farmers Market.
The Fairfield Beautification Commission presented a Historical Preservation Rose Award to the Jefferson County Courthouse Monday. The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors accepted the award on behalf of the taxpayers of Jefferson County. Pictured are, from left, supervisors Lee Dimmit, Becky Schmitz and Dick Reed, and Nancy Horras, Mark Shafer, Nancy Morrissey, Karin Hauring and Suzan Kessel.
Fairfield Economic Development Association hopes to grow the local economy by enticing former residents to move back to town.The program is known as ?Welcome Home to Iowa: Fairfield Connection.? FEDA is partnering with the staffing firm Manpower of Ottumwa to put on the program.Carrie Jaeger, program director at Manpower, said a key part of the ?Welcome Home? project is letting Fairfield alumni know jobs are ...
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