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Opinion

Slices of Life By Jill Pertler-Bigfoot, small foot

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The legend of Bigfoot lives on in American folklore, and although I don’t know for sure if the big and hairy creature actually exists in the wild, I do believe in big foot, or at least big feet. I live with a bunch of them. (Big and hairy big-footed creatures, that is.) My husband and sons ...

Q&A: Small Business Week with U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley

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Q: Why celebrate Small Business Week? A: The locomotive for the U.S. economy – small businesses – continues to move full steam ahead during the first two years of the Trump administration. The roaring U.S. economy opened the first quarter of the year with 3.2 percent growth, signaling ...

District 72 – Rep. Dean Fisher

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District 72 Newsletter By the time you read this we may well not only be done with week 15, but done for the entire session. We are working hard to finish by Saturday, April 27. This was an intense week of debate with more to come after I submit this newsletter. We completed several more ...

Slices of Life by Jill Pertler-Spring in the backyard

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I spotted the first one out of the corner of my eye, just outside the kitchen window. A bunny! And then there were two of them. Hopping in the yard and eating grass. They were brown with white tails. Nothing fancy, just common garden-variety bunnies, but I marveled at they way they blended in ...

Looking Back

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30 Years Ago May 5, 1989 The Reinbeck Jaycees Honors Banquet was held Tuesday night, May 2, at the Reinbeck Memorial Building. Liz Mathes, KWWL-TV nightly news anchor woman was the guest speaker. Jodi Lynn Bruene of Gladbrook and Thomas Allen Day of Moline, Illinois, were united in marriage ...

Tama County 4-H Member Attends National 4-H Conference

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Tama County 4-H member, Eric Keller, along with another four Iowa 4-H members, represented Iowa 4-H at the national conference, April 6-11 in the Washington, D.C., area."This conference is a pinnacle 4-H experience, and a prestigious opportunity for 4-H members across the country," said Bonnie ...