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Nearly 500,000 children headed back to public school. And, many of our friends and neighbors headed back to work as …
In two short weeks we should be seeing the first of the 10 common drugs that are to be on …
Prairieburg Telephone Company in Prairieburg was recently awarded over $3.9 million USDA RD Reconnect loan and grant funds to expand …
As the new school year begins I share what my 9-year-old grandson Ben told me last week: “Teachers should be …
I agree in part with words from Marie Belle Kelly of Norway, Iowa, in her letter in the Aug. 5 …
I was sorely dismayed on Sunday, Aug. 20, to read The Gazette and look for my favorite article in the …
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While walking on my street, Memorial Drive Speedway (south of Mount Vernon Road), I was thinking that when the city …
Senate File 496 requires books in public schools be “age appropriate.” I find this legislation particularly offensive. What books young …
What if … on Jan. 6, 2021, a certain Secret Service officer, driving the big black SUV, would have stopped …
I’m confused. Mr. Trump and his Republican acolytes keep telling everyone that the reason he is being indicted is because …
We like to say we’re “Iowa Nice” because of our Midwestern hospitality, down-to-earth values, and sense of community. I first …
After reading Mike Hlas’s column in the Aug. 17, Gazette (“Bissinger blasts Mason City schools’ ban of his ‘Friday Night …
Many of Donald Trump’s strongest Iowa supporters (especially evangelicals) say they’re for him because he “kept his promises.” Let’s look …
Among all the recent news … Aug. 12, 6A, “Nineteen books pulled from Mason City school libraries” is a bomb …
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