GARRISON – In 2009, the Garrison Public Library librarian died. In 2010, the new librarian was charged with taking most …
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GARRISON – In 2009, the Garrison Public Library librarian died. In 2010, the new librarian was charged with taking most …
VOLGA – Before Nazi concentration camp survivor Frances Talapina Sprague died in 1975, she not only gave daughter, Darlene, her …
CENTER POINT – Behind the front door and in the living room of a typical three-bedroom ranch house, Ilene Whitney …
ELKADER – A little rust shows on some of the old hand weights and mud can still occasionally gum up …
CEDAR RAPIDS – As if ghosts of nurses past, they show up at a funeral to pay their last respects …
LISBON – When sophomore Emma Hendricks walks the sixth grade hall at Lisbon Community Schools, grades kindergarten through 12th, and …
IOWA CITY – Tessa Poppe never let being a girl stop her from playing baseball rather than softball. She never …
ELDORADO – Maybe Denny Halverson didn’t win the karaoke contests at the Winneshiek and Allamakee county fairs and maybe his …
LANSING – “Ha, ha, ha, ho, ho, ho, hee, hee, hee.” Laughing Laura Gentry greets everybody she meets in the …
Finally, Jan. 4 has arrived. The Iowa caucuses are history. We can put them and Stephen Bloom’s controversial “Observations from …
CEDAR RAPIDS – The golden candle flame licks at the rose-colored plastic spoon under the watchful eye of Carl Ohrt …
May 2012 bring you all the happiness and prosperity you deserve and desire.
Well, 2011 is almost in the books – and I’ll get to that in a minute. In the meantime, we …
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