BOONE, Iowa—Pedro Salazar of Des Moines, a current Liberal Arts and Pre-Engineering Program student at the DMACC Boone Campus and a 2015 graduate of Des Moines East High School, was recently selected to participate in the NASA Lucy Student Pipeline Accelerator and Competency Enabler (L’SPACE) Virtual Academy during the program’s Fall 2019 session. The virtual program is designed around NASA’s […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig today commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Conditions report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly from April through November. “Wet conditions along with unseasonably warm temperatures continued across Iowa last week,” said Secretary Naig. “Farmers in some pockets of […]

BOONE, Iowa—Democratic Presidential hopeful, Pete Buttigieg made a campaign stop in Boone County Sunday morning, taking part in a Town Hall event at the Central Iowa Expo.  Buttigieg talked to the crowd about his campaign, but also took time to respond to a number of questions from those on hand.  The South Bend Mayor said […]

MADRID, Iowa—A well known Boone County camp that’s hosted thousands of 4-Her’s over the years is up for sale.  Des Moines media outlets, including the Des Moines Register reported on the announcement this week by the Iowa 4-H Foundation of it’s intent to sell Clover Woods Camp & Retreat Center near Madrid. The foundation itself […]

ANKENY, Iowa—The President and several other officials from Kosovo took time this week to visit the Ankeny Campus of Des Moines Area Community College.  President Hashim Thaҫi and other officials from the Balkan nation were at DMACC to welcome and celebrate the 28 Kosovo women who are spending the next two years at DMACC studying […]

Congratulations to Nick Rose and Sydney Woodruff, Boone’s 2019 Homecoming King and Queen.

BOONE, Iowa—The Heart of Iowa Habitat for Humanity, the local Habitat for Humanity affiliate serving Boone, Greene and Guthrie Counties has been awarded a very generous donation of $580 from Fareway Stores, Inc. to assist in our mission to eliminate poverty housing and fulfill Habitat’s vision of a world where everyone has a decent place […]

BOONE, Iowa—One of the many trains passing through Boone Friday included the Union Pacific’s Locomotive No. 1111-The Employee Pride Locomotive-created to honor the men and women of Union Pacific Railroad. The paint design, selected through a system wide online employee vote, highlights Union Pacific’s unique and diverse employee population while representing the critical crafts and […]