Jacob Hall | The Iowa StandardThe Iowa Senate Workforce Committee pushed Senate Study Bill 3097 through committee on a narrow 7-5 vote on Thursday. The bill attempts to provide uniformity to driving laws for 14- and 15-year-olds in Iowa.Republican State Sen. Adrian Dickey managed the bill through committee. He noted the bill is the product […]
Jacob Hall | The Iowa Standard A proposal requiring public schools to accept legal tender as a form of payment into an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition sponsored by an extracurricular interscholastic athletic organization advanced through a Senate subcommittee on Monday.Senate File 2072 also requires an extracurricular interscholastic athletic organization to accept legal tender […]
Pictured are the 2023-24 George-Little Rock FFA Chapter Officers. Left to right, President Emily Winkel, Vice-President Taryn Odens, Secretary Hailey Godbersen, Treasurer Hadley Madsen, Reporter Jacey Eben, Farm Manager Jack Krull. (Photo/Submitted)
Pictured is the 2023-24 George-Little Rock FFA Chapter. Front, left to right, Emily Winkel, Taryn Odens, Hailey Godbersen, Hadley Madsen, Jacey Eben, Jack Krull. Second row, Wyleigh Steenhoven, Aspen Kanengieter, Katrina Van Hill, Ethan Van Engen, Wyatt Peters. Third row, Zoee McClellan, Ty Van Hill, Dylan Mulder, Austin Eben. Back, Kara Whitacre, Owen Ackerman, Cade […]
Pictured is the 2023-24 Central Lyon FFA Chapter. Officers are in the front row. Left to right, Cole denHoed, Farm Manager; Ethan Pedersen, Student Advisor; Ellyanna Haspels, Historian; Kayleigh Van Tilburg, Treasurer; Keaton Funk, Vice-President; Lilly Henry, President; Jada Ordal, Secretary; Alexandra Flores, Reporter; Trevor Dieren, Sentinel; Avery Harman, Student Advisor; Gabe Schulte, Farm Manager. […]
“Community theatre is an opportunity to create ‘magic’ as Tom Gaspar once said and to invite the community into stories — from the realistic to the fantastical, to laugh and to cry, to celebrate and to remember.” – Jessica Van Roekel Dominique Kooiker | Editor As the sounds of “State Fair” echo through the Forster […]
George-Little Rock sends speech teams to All-State Dominique Kooiker | Editor On Saturday, Feb. 17, three teams from George-Little Rock were honored at the All-State Large Group Speech Festival at Iowa State University in Ames. Performing in Television News is the “60 Minutes Conspiracy Edition” team, including Mitchell Groen, Henry Ver Steeg, Collin DeLeeuw, Hayden […]
Central Lyon FIRST Lego League teams compete at state Dominique Kooiker | Editor On Saturday, Feb. 17, middle school students from across the region gathered to compete in the FIRST LEGO League state championship in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Hosted by EmBe at the Augustana University’s Elmen Center, the event gathered young innovators from the tri-state region, […]
Dominique Kooiker | Editor In small-town America, a grocery store isn’t just a place to buy food and necessities; it’s a kind of social outing, a gathering. Brent Bosch, owner of Sunshine Foods in Rock Rapids, takes the responsibility of running a small-town grocery store seriously.“I’m a second-generation grocer. I grew up in this business. […]