BOONE, Iowa – April 26, 2013 – Bob Grathwohl, President/CEO of VisionBank of Iowa, is pleased to announce the promotion of Doug Thompson to Market President and Nick Lentz to Vice President-Commercial Banker. Thompson will continue to office at VisionBank’s South Marshall office at 1704 S. Marshall Street and will be responsible for managing the [...]

BOONE, Iowa—The Spring Drug Drop Off event in Boone County will be held Saturday morning.  Kelly Wooden heads up the Boone County Project SAFE and is joined by the Boone County Supervisors, the Boone County Sheriff’s Department, Police Departments in Boone, Madrid and Ogden and also the Boone County Landfill and Boone City Utilities, in [...]

BOONE, Iowa—Many might have missed it, but Friday is Arbor Day in Iowa.  There will be a recognition of Arbor Day at the Iowa Arboretum on Saturday.  The Celebration of Trees will include an Arbor Day ceremonial planting by Charity Nebbe, host of Talk of Iowa on Iowa Public Radio.  Mark Schneider, Executive Director for [...]

BOONE, Iowa—Bond for 39-year old Alexander Fazzino has been reduced by Second Judicial District Court Judge in Boone County.  Judge Michael Moon released his decision Wednesday, lowering the bond to $500,000.  Fazzino is charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of his wife Emily Fazzino in January 2012.  Fazzino’s attorney Bill Kutmus [...]

On Monday evening, 264 attendees enjoyed 33 sponsored tables at Boone’s Runway for Life Salad Social at the Sacred Heart Gym.  Organizers expect to break the $10,000 mark though tickets sales, raffle items, cookbook sales and contributions from the three floral providers of HyVee, Northwest Greenhouse and Lowe Berry.  In addition to a multitude of [...]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Board of Supervisors are being asked to consider a waiver for the Central Iowa Expo Board that would allow the Board to retain payments for sponsorship and fundraising to be used for site operations for the next fiscal year.  Originally, the plan was for the Central Iowa Expo Board to make [...]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Historical Society and the James H. Andrew Railroad Museum and History Center co-hosted a program last Saturday with Misty McNally, publisher, author and illustrator.  McNally is currently working on her next project, a book entitled “Kate Shelley: Heroine of the High Bridge”.  Eighty-five visitors were on hand for the presentation by [...]

BOONE, Iowa—A Boone County District Court Judge will be deciding on bonding requests for 39-year old Alexander Fazzino, the former Boone man accused of killing his wife in January of 2012.  Fazzino was taken into custody in Missouri earlier this month and has been held on $1.5 million bond.  Fazzino’s attorney William Kutmus of Des [...]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone City Council’s Economic Development Committee has visited two additional downtown locations where owners have expressed an interest in being a part of the Boone Downtown Incentive Program.  The most recent visits were to properties in the 900 Block of Story Street on the north and south side of the tracks, the offices [...]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Community Endowment awarded $92,367 to 20 County organizations, leveraging another $593,266 in project spending.  The 20 recipients were recognized in a ceremony at the Leonard Good Community Center in Ogden last Thursday.  Mary Bilden, Chair of the Community Endowment Board, said they had received 37-applications this year, requesting $229,375. This year [...]