BOONE, Iowa—Retired teacher and administrator, Pam Nystrom, has announced her candidacy for the Boone School Board. In her press release, Nystrom described herself as a life-long educator.  She started her career as a speech therapist.  She earned a Master’s degree in special education and taught for several years in Missouri.  A native of Iowa, she […]

ANKENY, Iowa—Wednesday, August 14, 2019 – Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) today announced the second of a series of presidential candidate forums on the economic future of the United States, hosted in collaboration with Iowa Public Television (IPTV) and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses. The series intends to provide community college students, local small businesses, […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—See below for a statement from Hy-Vee, Inc. regarding an investigation the company is conducting into a data incident involving its payment processing systems: Hy-Vee takes the security of payment card data very seriously. We want to make customers aware of an investigation we are conducting into a security incident involving our payment […]

BOONE, Iowa—Boone County Extension/4-H has released information about the 20190 Boone County Fair Meat Goat competition. Meat Goat Results                                    

BOONE, Iowa—4th District Congressman Steve King met with a couple of dozen constituents during a one-hour town hall meeting in Boone Tuesday.  It was the second town hall of the day, the first in the morning in Charles City. King said he wanted to talk about trade agreements, but began by talking about a recent […]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Sheriff’s Department has released some preliminary information about Monday afternoon’s accident in eastern Boone County, on U.S. Highway 30 at the Lincolnway Bridge. Shortly after 4:00 in the afternoon, a Boone County responded to eastbound U.S Highway 30 under the Lincoln Way Bridge for a single vehicle accident. Witnesses observed the […]

BOONE, Iowa—The De Shon Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) celebrated the recent announcement that the Cole School has been accepted to the National Register of Historic Places.  The rural school, northeast of Boone has been a project of the chapter since 2006. Barb Mac Dougall told the Chamber Red Coats Tuesday that […]