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West Liberty residents made their voices heard March 15, sometimes talking over one another, passionate about the issues that mean most to them.
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By Andrea Grubaugh, Reporter
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3/19/25
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Few words, and constant action. That's how friends and colleagues remember Glen L. Keppy and his lifelong devotion to Scott County agriculture.
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3/18/25
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Princeton taxpayers will pay a Lost Grove Road farmer $4,500 not to plant corn or beans this year and use no fertilizer around the city’s contaminated water well.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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3/18/25
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Scott County supervisors and a room full of cheering colleagues stood to applaud Sherry Burmeister and her 50 years of service to the county.
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3/18/25
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Humility Homes and Services has served 143 Scott County residents in the first year of a program funded in part by Scott County Board of Supervisors’ $3 million commitment of federal pandemic aid.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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3/18/25
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Little Texas will headline the Friday, July 11 free concert at the Walcott Truckers Jamboree, July 10-12 at Iowa 80 Truckstop..
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3/18/25
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The Eldridge City Council meeting scheduled for Monday, March 17, was postponed due to lack of a quorum. City administrator Nevada Lemke said the make-up date will be next Monday, March 24, with a special committee of the whole meeting at 6 p.m., followed by the regular meeting at 7 p.m.
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3/18/25
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North Scott Community School District is thrilled to announce that Courtney Wiedenmann, Agricultural Education Instructor and FFA Advisor at North Scott Junior High School, was honored as the 2025 STEM Teacher of the Year by the Quad City Engineering & Science Council (QCESC).
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3/18/25
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Kay Pence, of Eldridge continues as chair of Scott County Democrats, who elected officers at its March 6 monthly meeting.
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3/18/25
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Iowa local governments would not be able to have citizen police review boards under legislation passed by the Iowa Senate 37-9 Monday.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/18/25
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Iowa senators advanced a bill Monday to provide farms 40 acres or larger with state protection against surveillance by drones.
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Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/18/25
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The Iowa Association of Realtors has awarded R. Scott Case, CRB, CRS, the state’s highest honor, the 2024 O.G. Powell & Joan Ballantyne Distinguished Award.
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3/18/25
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John and Joan Maxwell of Donahue have been named Iowa Master Farmers by Wallaces Farmer Magazine.
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3/18/25
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If you left the plant debris and leaves in the perennial garden all winter (a good idea), then spring is the time to do some clean-up.
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3/18/25
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In 2021,18 public water systems in Iowa — including municipalities, rural water districts, churches, residential care facilities and mobile home parks — reported nitrate or nitrite levels that exceeded federal safe drinking limits, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) annual drinking water compliance report.
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3/18/25
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Immigration was the biggest factor in population growth for the agricultural Midwest, as well as many booming Sun Belt counties, according to a Stateline analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau county estimates.
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Tim Henderson, Stateline
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3/18/25
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Peregrine falcons, once nonexistent in Iowa, hatched and raised at least 36 young falcons in 2024 out of the 17 nests monitored in the state.
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Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/18/25
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A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected in a commercial pullet flock in Buena Vista County Friday, according to the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship.
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3/18/25
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Iowa farmers and institutions lost an estimated $11.3 million in federal funding to support the purchase of locally raised foods, following the recent termination of two U.S. Department of Agriculture programs.
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Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/18/25
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Iowa House lawmakers unanimously passed legislation March 13 changing how the crime of misrepresenting an animal as a service animal is charged.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/18/25
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