Kendra Knowles, funeral director with Barr Memorial Chapel, Fort Madison, was honored at the Presidential Banquet of the Iowa Funeral Directors Association (IFDA) on April 16 with a Milestone Achievement Award for her 20 years as a licensed funeral director in Iowa.

IOWA CITY — Wyatt Hellman of Fort Madison is one of 15 University of Iowa students and alumni were chosen from more than 10,000 Fulbright Award applicants nationwide to serve as representative…

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Iowa 2x4s for Hope work day. All volunteers welcome. Work starts at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 4 at 920 29th Street. No special skills required.

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DONNELLSON -- There were five minutes of rain Saturday at Green Acres Golf Course then blue skies and a median temperature of 70 degrees for the Central Lee Invitational high school golf tournament.

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The cicada invasion of 2024 is almost here. This one promises to be epic, and it will certainly be the last double emergence everyone alive now will experience.

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Humorist Boyce House told the story of a Texas lawyer who asked his rough-looking client if he knew what an alibi was. “Yes,” said the client, “that’s when I can prove I was somewhere else whe…

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Last week I began looking at myths that we may believe because Biblical ignorance is on the rise.

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