Marion updates yield signs on 10th Avenue intersections
City replaced yield signs at multiple Marion intersections after 25 years to handle higher traffic. Marion Independent School Board hosts a 4 p.m. work session in the admin boardroom to discuss Career Academies tech courses. Police offer child safety seat checks Tuesday and Wednesday with appointments preferred, call 377-1511. Iowa One Call hosts a digging safety luncheon at the Radisson Hotel from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. register online or email, and callers must report digging at least 48 hours ahead.
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Marion
10Th Avenue
24Th Street
Marion Independent School
Metro Area
S. 15Th St
Donna Finch
Iowa
One Call
Radisson
Dodge Street
Iowaonecall
Iowa ByStander, First Black West of Mississippi
The Iowa ByStander founded in Des Moines 1894 was the first African-American newspaper west of the Mississippi River. John L. Thompson bought it in 1896 with growth under James B. Morris Sr. who owned 1922 to 1971. Jonathan Narcisse is current owner and editor publisher.
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Bystander
Iowa
Wildlife watchers sought by Iowa Nature Mapping group
Volunteer Tom Sandersfeld joins 280 others documenting local fauna for Iowa Nature Mapping. He reports on blue jays cardinals pheasants and deer tracks near Hilton Creek four miles southeast of Marengo, noting large flocks of red winged blackbirds and various birds and mammals observed in a wildlife area.
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Marlene Lucas
Gazette Arengo
Tom Sandersfeld
Hilton Creek
Marengo
Sandersfeld
Iowa Nature Mapping
Iowa State
Wawse Prewivs
DY Miranda Meyer
Iowa State University Wildlife Extension
Iowa Nature Mapping Volunteers Start 10 Workshops
Volunteers join the Nature Mapping Program through ISU Wildlife Extension. The first two workshops run in Eastern Iowa: Buchanan County Fontana Nature Center 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Marshall County Marshalltown Community College 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in March. Cost is 10 dollars per workshop with optional lunch. registration via Jason O’Brien at 515 294 6440 jpobrien iastate.edu or nature mapping site.
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Iowa State University Wildlife Extension
Iowa
Buchanan County
Fontana Nature Center
Marshall County
Marshalltown Community College
Jason O'Brien
Iastate
Nature Mapping
Extension
Iastate.edu
Dr Dolittle enthusiast runs a 40 acre Iowa homestead
Brent Hospers, owner of Hospers & Brother Printers, tends a menagerie on a 40 acre Fairfield, Iowa homestead. He added lambs, llamas, fainting goats and miniature horses after buying a $10,000 pole barn and a pair of ewes. He also owns Union Printing in Ottumwa and Old Capitol Screen Printers in Iowa City while his brothers Garth and he trace printing roots to 1876.
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Tom Walsh
Iowa City
Dolittle
Brent Hospers
Hospers
Fairfield
Iowa
Reno
Nev
Colee
Brent
Boulder, Colo
Roger
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Garth
Spiedel Newspaper Group
Spiedel
Reno Gazette- Journal
Hespers
Orange City
Hospers & Brother Printers
Old Capitol Screen Printers
Union Printing
Ottumwa
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Hospers Owns Printing Companies
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