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Annie and Brendan Fitzgerald own and operate FitzCo, a business dedicated to finding, repairing and leasing pinball machines to businesses in Eastern Iowa.

Whether they were the result of weeks of engineering, or held together with “a stick of gum and some cardboard,” every boat in the Freedom Festival’s Cardboard Boat Regatta faced the same challenge on Saturday: travel out and around a buoy in Manhattan Park’s Robbins Lake without sinking.

St Ludmila's will host its annual Kolach Festival this week. This year’s festival will be the first in the church’s new $9 million community center.

Johnson County Auditor Travis Weipert said there have been election workers who have decided not to return to the practice amid increased scrutiny.

State Climatologist Justin Glisan said the state has had its sixth-wettest start to a year in the 152 years the data has been tracked.

The city waited more than a decade to build a new city hall. In addition to city offices, the $10 million building features expanded conference rooms, an indoor community space and a public plaza.