Jeff Linder of The Gazette/KCRG picks the Class 2A girls’ state basketball tournament: Quarterfinals Western Christian 52, Estherville-Lincoln Central 48 Ida Grove OA-BCIG 64, West Marshall 47 West Hancock 52, Pella Christian 43 IKM-Manning 62, Bellevue 46 Semifinals Western Christian 58, Ida Grove OA-BCIG 57 IKM-Manning 55, West Hancock 47 Championship Western Christian 60, IKM-Manning [...]
continue »BOYS BASKETBALL Aplington-Parkersburg 54, West Fork, Sheffield 52 Calmar South Winneshiek 72, Valley Community 39 Charles City 61, Garner-Hayfield 52 Emmetsburg 57, Le Mars 56 Forest City 68, Lake Mills 42 Fort Dodge St. Edmond 75, Eagle Grove 28 Glenwood 51, Council Bluffs St. Albert 43 Hull Western Christian 71, Sioux Falls Christian, S.D. 56 [...]
continue »BOYS BASKETBALL Algona 61, Forest City 58 Aplington-Parkersburg 59, Jesup 53 Bishop Garrigan 69, Humboldt 42 Cedar Rapids Kennedy 59, Ames 40 Cedar Rapids Prairie 44, Mount Vernon 34 Cedar Valley 65, Springville 57 Des Moines Christian 63, Pella Christian 55 Des Moines Grandview Park Baptist 66, Ankeny Christian Academy 54 Des Moines Roosevelt 61, [...]
continue »Congratulations to the dedicated staff and leaders at Lending Hands Adult Day Center in Washington for joining WesleyLife. In addition to Wesley Halcyon House retirement community in Washington, Wesley includes retirement and elder service facilities in Atlantic, Des Moines, Indianola, Newton, Pella and West Des Moines. Lending Hands Adult Day Center was a non-profit entrepreneurial [...]
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Texas political observers say their Gov. Rick Perry has a reputation as a dangerous campaigner, even more so when he’s behind. If that’s the case, Perry will be a dangerous man when he visits northeast Iowa today in search of support in the Jan. 3 first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses. It will be Day 5 of a [...]
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Mitt Romney, the will-he-or-won’t-he candidate of the 2012 election cycle will. Campaign in Iowa, that is. The former Massachusetts governor will be back in Iowa Monday, campaigning in Dubuque and Scott counties, territory he carried in 2008 when he was runner-up to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. No details of the visit have been [...]
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What’s up, Iowa? Roughly midway between two iconic Iowa contests on the road to the Republican presidential nomination Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann have reversed roles. Bachmann, who won the straw poll after entering the race less than two months earlier, and Cain, who finished in single digits in fifth place, have seen their fortunes [...]
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The following is from ISU Extension: AMES, Iowa — Many of Iowa’s beautiful public gardens are in the spotlight next year with the 2012 Garden Calendar, from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach. The full-color, 12-month calendar highlights a different public garden each month with several photos and information about the garden. “We wanted to [...]
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A MidAmerican Energy request to reclassify $213 million worth of Iowa power lines from “distribution” to “transmission” has the state’s consumer advocate concerned about long-term rate impacts for consumers. The state’s largest utility this month asked the Iowa Utilities Board to grant the “re-delineation” of the power lines and recommend the change to the Federal [...]
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