City council members in Washington have completed the first reading of an ordinance amendment that legalizes fireworks on certain holidays, after years of banning the pyrotechnic rockets in town without exception. And theyâre not happy about it.
Washingtonâs 78th Ridiculous Days were a blast last week. And despite unfavorable forecasts, there was no rain on the annual parade, nor any of the numerous other activities as community members gathered for the long-beloved town festival.
A new town celebration will mix Art Domestiqueâs annual En Plaine Air competition with a handful of new events focused on the arts, as community members seek to show off their designation as an Iowa Arts and Entertainment district.
Neither side seems to expect speedy resolution as case is referred to the stateâs supreme court, which can either make a ruling in several months, or delegate the matter to the Iowa Court of Appeals. Itâs the latest in a legal battle over polling place errors that allowed at least 70 invalid voters to cast a ballot in the schoolâs $15 million bond referendum in November.
A reunion of friends, neighbors and former students met June 1, 2025 at Marjorie Koehlerâs home in Keota. Also present …
Jackie Morgan has a solid medical background, working as a nurse practitioner for primary care clinics and urgent care floors in Iowa, where sheâs lived for 15 years.
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A Washington man is in custody after police say he stabbed another city resident in the back with a kitchen knife, the morning of June 5.
New information released Thursday morning: police say guns were found, not loaded, near WHS baseball field
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources issued an air quality warning across the state from Tuesday to Thursday morning, saying âthick smoke from Canadian wildfiresâ could prove hazardous to anyone getting active outdoors.
A handful of local advocacy groups are asking the Washington County Board of Supervisors to draft and vote on a resolution declaring the communityâs civil rights standards, after state legislators removed the term âgender identityâ from Iowaâs list of protected classes earlier this year.
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