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Hannen LakeThe ice is unsafe. Rodgers Park LakeThe ice is unsafe. Iowa LakeThe ice is unsafe. Kent Park LakeThe ice is unsafe. Lake MacbrideThere are large areas of open water (dam area, west of the causeway on the south arm) and the remaining ice should be considered unsafe. The north shore of the north arm is starting to thin now. Currently all boat ramps are iced in. Central Park LakeThe ice is ...

PACKWOOD ? WACO?s Braden Blake finished first in the 800-meter run during the Ruritan Relays at Pekin in Packwood on Thursday night.Blake ran a time of 2:16.4 in the event, almost exactly one second ahead of the next finisher.Blake had the only first-place finish for the Warriors, who took fourth of five teams at the meet. However, the Warriors had five other top-three finishes.Blake added a second-place ...

CEDAR RAPIDS ? The Iowa Wesleyan College softball team traveled to Cedar Rapids on Wednesday and took on Coe College.The Tigers lost in both games of the doubleheader to the NCAA DIII 19th-ranked team.The Tigers fell 7-1 in game one, then were shut out as they lost 8-0 in the nightcap. IWC is now 7-9 and Coe is now 15-1.Next up for IWC is a trip to MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill., on Tuesday, April ...

WEST BURLINGTON ? The 2013 racing season is scheduled to begin at 34 Raceway with the Brockway Mechanical/Doc 360 Sprint Invaders Frost Buster and Roberts Tire Center Modified Special Saturday, March 30.A prize of $1,200 will go to the winner of the Sprint Invaders feature, and the Modifieds will race for the $1,000 prize.Also on the racing card will be the Pepsi Stock IMCA Stock Cars and Mod Lites.There is a ...

The Mt. Pleasant boys? tennis team lost a close one to Davis County on Thursday night at East Lake Park.?We played good doubles for not spending much time in practice on it,? Coach Tyler Rodgers said. ?Ovearll, we need to be more consistent.?Chase Higginbotham won his singles match by a score of 8-2; Zach Schmitz picked up an 8-4 win and Tyler Pace also won by a score of 8-2.Higginbotham and Schmitz also ...

The Winfield-Mt. Union girls? track and field team didn?t lose a single athlete to graduation, and they?re bringing back a number of state qualifiers ? including the school?s first individual event winner, senior Cassie Kingery, who was a Class 1A state champion in the 100-meter hurdles.?We didn?t graduate anyone from last year?s team so we have a really strong core of returners,? Coach Allyson McCarty said. ?We ...

Spring turkey hunters in Iowa should notice more birds. Dry conditions in 2012 meant a better hatch and first year of growth for poults. As about 45,000 hunters head to the woods through April and May, that can?t hurt their chances of taking a gobbler.?Across the state, we had about a 25 percent increase. North central and northeast Iowa had great increases in reproduction,? notes DNR forest research biologist ...

Lake GeodeGeode is mostly ice free. The docks aren?t in yet but the main ramp is ice free. Lake Belva DeerThere is a lot of open water now, but the ramps are still iced in with about one quarter to one half inch. Pollmiller Park LakeThe lower three-fourths of the lake is ice free, including the boat ramp. Lake of the HillsThe spring trout release is March 23 at 10:30 a.m. The ice is in very poor ...