SATURDAY, JULY 3: 10 a.m.: PARADE starting at Norwalk High School Parking Lot. Bring a lawn chair and find a seat along the route. For sign up and/or map or for more information, visit: norwalkhometownpride.wordpress.com/celebrate-norwalk-4th-of-july-weekend. 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.: PARTY IN CITY PARK at City Park, 907 North Ave.,
Read More →Bank Iowa is celebrating nine marketing awards received from the American Marketing Association’s Iowa Chapter, including the People’s Choice Award for its Let’s Make it Happen campaign. Since 2018, the four-person marketing team has been awarded 35 times for excellence in marketing achievement. “These accolades are incredibly humbling,” said Josh
Read More →Hy-Vee, Inc. announces today that in partnership with Free Clinics of Iowa, it is hosting a series of COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Des Moines, Iowa, and nearby communities. Altogether, six clinics will be hosted by the two organizations. At each clinic, individuals will be able to choose between the Pfizer-BioNTech
Read More →The Covid-19 pandemic persists. Be safe. Be considerate. Be compassionate. Strongly consider getting your vaccinations. Continue to be creative. Find ways to celebrate your thankfulness safely with family, friends and others. – John Busbee for The Culture Buzz, 2014 Iowa Governor’s Award for Partnership & Collaboration in the Arts Quote of
Read More →The Greater Des Moines Committee will recognize Tom Koehn, Tom Mahoney and Dr. Wendy Wintersteen as the 2020 inductees to the Iowa Business Hall of Fame. The inductees will be honored during the Greater Des Moines Committee’s Annual Black Tie Dinner on Tuesday, Sept. 7 at The Meadows Events and
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Posted May 25, 2021in Stray Thoughts
The chambers of the Iowa Senate and the Iowa House of Representatives are silent after a busy 2021 session. Lawmakers teed up bills that addressed a wide assortment of problems, real or imagined. They decided against an increase in tax revenues for the three state universities. They took
Read More →Former white house chief of staff to First Lady Michelle Obama, and president of SPPG, Jackie Norris will announce on Monday she is running for an at-large seat on the Des Moines School Board. The official kickoff event will be held virtually Monday, May 24 from 5-5:15 p.m. Norris chose
Read More →Hy-Vee, Inc. will deliver 4,331 hams to Food Bank of Iowa on Wednesday, May 26 at 9 a.m. The donation to the largest food bank in Iowa is part of Hy-Vee’s “Ending Summer Hunger” initiative to help provide meat to food banks throughout its eight-state region. The donation comes as
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Posted May 24, 2021in Political Mercury
Manilla Democrat plans to spotlight farming, education, infrastructure and health care. Former Crawford County Supervisor Dave Muhlbauer, a Manilla farmer and cattleman with deep family roots in rural Iowa politics, this morning announced his bid for U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley’s seat. Muhlbauer, who describes himself as an “old-school farming-labor Democrat,” is
Read More →Representatives from the City of Clive and CCS will be available to media at 4:30 PM At 10:02 AM a building fire was reported in the lower level of 2190 82nd Street in Clive. The Clive Fire Department and multiple neighboring agencies quickly responded. Upon arrival, firefighters found heavy fire
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