Dallas Center, IA (March 9, 2017) – Spring break Family Day Camps, a midnight meteor watching party, and a benefit dinner and concert highlight a year-long slate of events at The Brenton Arboretum to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the plantings of the first trees. The year’s biggest bash is
Read More →Event on March 10 at Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines The Iowa Army National Guard will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its off-base Recruiting Operation Center, located on the upper level of Jordan Creek Town Center, near Center Court, at 11 a.m. on Friday, March 10. Local
Read More →Waukee, Iowa — The City of Waukee launched “Imagine Waukee 2040”, a process to update the City’s Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Plan is a long-range document addressing goals and policies for land use, housing, parks and open space, economic development and transportation systems. Once completed, the flexible and dynamic plan
Read More →Des Moines, IA (March 7, 2017) – Central Iowa outpaced the level of improvement nationally in well-being, according to the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index data released today. Central Iowa’s Well-Being Index score increased to 63.8 from 62.6, moving closer to the Community Goal for 2020 of 64.5. Nationally, the score
Read More →Thursday, July 27, 2017 Mary Chapin Carpenter will be gracing the Hoyt Sherman Place stage at 7:30 PM. Five-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Mary Chapin Carpenter hits the road in 2017, performing songs from her expansive 14-album catalog and new songs from her latest
Read More →The contestants may be all smiles and slobber, but this year’s Beautiful Bulldog Contest® at Drake University promises to be the fiercest competition in history. Registration for the 38th annual event closed this week with a record-breaking number of applicants — more than 120 English bulldogs from 13 states. The
Read More →2017 Iowa Genealogical Spring Conference will be held Saturday, April 8, 2017 at the IGS Library, 628 E. Grand Ave. , Des Moines, IA 50309. The conference will feature J. H. Fonkert from FourGenerations Genealogy. (https://fourgenerationsgenealogy.wordpress.com/ ) For most of his career, Jay worked as a state government policy analyst
Read More →With a Goal to Raise $100,000, More than 30 Volunteers Will Go Bald What: Funny Bone in West Des Moines, Iowa, will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation signature head-shaving event to raise funds and awareness for lifesaving children’s cancer research on Tuesday, March 7. With a goal of raising $100,000, more than 30 participants will go
Read More →The ever-restless songwriter Joe Jackson traveled the world to record ‘Fast Forward,’ his first collection of original songs in seven years, released in October of 2015 via Work Song/Caroline. Originally conceived to be released as a series of EPs, the album was produced and arranged by Jackson, and features four
Read More →Grinnell Mutual, Kent Corporation, Sukup Manufacturing to invest in Accelerator, which will graduate first class at World Food Prize GREATER DES MOINES, IA — The Greater Des Moines Partnership and the Cultivation Corridor today announced the name of an accelerator focused on agtech startup companies: the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator. The
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