BOONE, Iowa—The Boone City Council this week approved using an additional $50,000 for the Boone Downtown Incentive Fund.  The BDIF is the program that makes available reimbursement of 40% of a facade improvement project, up to $30,000.  Council Member Steven Ray made the request to the Council, noting that the Economic Development Committee had already [...]

BOONE, Iowa—Xenia Rural Water has issued a boil order for a portion of their service area.  The rural water district reported a broken water main Monday afternoon.  Boone County Emergency Management Coordinator Dave Morlan was informed at the time that the area affected included Fraser and the surround area, about 133 customers in all.  The [...]

BOONE,  Iowa—Demolition of the fifth residential property resumed this week.   The house at 918 5th Street is the final property from a bid awarded to Wisecup Trucking by the city earlier this spring. Four of the properties have already been completed.   Some of the vacant lots will remain with current owners.   Others will belong to [...]

BOSTON (AP) – The Boston Bruins have a two-games-to-one lead in the Stanley Cup finals after Tuukka (TOO’-kuh) Rask handled 28 shots in a 2-0 win over the Chicago Blackhawks. Daniel Paille (PY’-ay) scored the winning goal for the second straight game, beating Corey Crawford at 2:13 of the second period. Patrice Bergeron (pah-TREES’ BEHR’-zhur-ahn) [...]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County 4-H Horse Safety Stall Initiative Fund Raising efforts receive a big boost for the Union Pacific Foundation Grant Program recently.  The Boone County 4-H program received a $10,000 grant to be used toward the purchase of 80 collapsible box stalls.  Each stall costs about $1,000.  The Union Pacific Foundation is granting [...]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone Fire Department was called to the Boone National Building Sunday night in response to alarms about smoke in the building.  The six-story structure does contain a number of apartments which had to be evacuated after smoke was discovered on several floors.  Fire fighters were able to trace the cause of the smoke [...]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone Fire Department was called to Belluci Pizza in downtown Boone Sunday morning for a report of smoke.   Fire fighters were able to quickly locate the problem, making sure there was no fire.   Fire fighters did ventilate the building.   Story Street was closed during the time fire fighters were on the scene.

BOONE, Iowa—Boone Police have identified the woman who apparently died as a result of being struck by a Union Pacific Railroad train on the west side of Boone Friday evening.  Commander Chuck Pepples released the name Saturday afternoon as the Boone Police Department continued their investigation.  Police were initially called to the Union Pacific Railroad [...]

BOONE, Iowa—Boone Police were sent to a reported train-pedestrian accident on the west side of Boone shortly before 11:00 PM Friday night.  Commander John Sloter reported that a caller reported that a person had been struck by an east bound Union Pacific Railroad train.  Sloter did confirm that officers located a woman at the scene, [...]

BOONE, Iowa—The last meeting in June means that Boone City Council will conduct business on many matter related to the end of a fiscal year and the beginning of a new fiscal year July 1st.  One of the many tasks will be considering the recommendations from the Council’s Human Service Committee.  The Committee forward a [...]