Articles Tagged: Washington, Iowa

WASHINGTON — Main Street volunteers and city parks department employees spent Thursday morning setting up 105 “Lights of Love” trees …

A hotel developer eyeing Washington has asked the city for roughly $1.5 million over the course of 10 years, paid for with “tax increment financing,” or TIF. The incentive-making tool is effective for economic development, but complicated and sometimes controversial.

WASHINGTON — Faith Baptist Church on the west side of Washington held an Alive After Five Tuesday night to spread …

WASHINGTON — Members of a Mid-Prairie culinary class served their own food for a fundraiser at Café Dodici Monday night, …

New court documents don’t list a new trial date, say plea negotiations underway

Washington’s annual school performance profile, released by the Iowa Department of Education last week, shows below-average scores for 4- and 5-year graduation rates, math proficiency and language arts proficiency across the district. On all four measures, it reported the lowest score in Washington County, and was among the bottom four for the

Two teens accused of shooting a man in a parked car in Washington in January of 2022 pleaded guilty to robbery last week, according to the Washington County Attorney’s Office, but charges of attempted murder against both defendants were dismissed.

A total of three candidates are running for as many seats on the Washington City Council this year, none of them facing a challenger in the race.

Tera Pickens

WASHINGTON — Four candidates are running for as many seats in this year’s Washington school board election on Tuesday, Nov. …

Millie Youngquist

WASHINGTON — Organizers from Main Street Washington said the group’s historic downtown walking tours the afternoons of Oct. 15 & …

City revokes DIG grant in light of change

Halloween season event is a first for Washington beautification group

WASHINGTON — The campaign tour bus of Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spent last weekend “barnstorming” Southeast Iowa, in its …