So what are you doing over New Year’s? The DNR invites Iowans to step outside and enjoy Iowa state parks and forests in the 2023 First Day Hike Challenge. Visitors can ring in the New Year with the Parks Passport on their own, or by joining park staff on a guided hike.
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig has announced that Julie Kenney will leave the Department for a new opportunity shortly after the new year, after nearly five years of exceptional leadership in the role.
Unofficial results from the City of Hamburg Dec. 13 special election have been released by the Fremont County Clerk’s Office.
The holiday season is steeped in tradition. One of the most popular traditions is playing holiday music, which many retailers begin to broadcast over their PA systems shortly after people put their Halloween costumes in storage. The popular music streaming platform Spotify tracks the most popular holiday songs each year, and 2021 featured a mix of some newer songs and some all-time classics. According to Spotify, these five songs were the most streamed holiday tunes on the platform between November 1 and December 9,
Cade Smith of Sidney High School competed recently at the Junior World Finals, a pre-show to the National Finals Rodeo in Last Vegas at the Las Vegas Convention Center from Dec. 1 to Dec.
Are you the parent of a preschooler? Do you know parents can prepare their children to read by reading to them? Research shows that preschoolers who are exposed to lots of language through books and conversations have greater academic success. The Fremont County Extension Office is offering Our Bookshelf jointly with the Page County Extension Office.
Cookies and other baked treats are everywhere come the holiday season. It's not uncommon to give cookies as gifts or arrive at holiday gatherings with cakes and other decadent desserts.
Merriam-Webster defines humanity as “compassionate, sympathetic, or generous behavior or disposition.” It is also defined as “the quality or condition of being human.” The first definition is what people want in a health care provider. We all want to be taken care of by a caregiver who is compassionate, kind, sympathetic, and generous with their time and knowledge. Health care providers spend countless hours taking care of patients. In order to do this, at times we ignore our own needs for rest, sleep, and food. We recite mantras of “first do no harm” and “the patient comes first.” Many of us strive for this vision of the “perfect” provider or to be a “health care hero” as we were called during the pandemic.
Exploring management strategies to cut costs, increase performance, and capture value at the Three State Beef Conference For 38 years, the Three-State Beef Conference has provided beef cattle producers in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska an annual update on current and critical cow-calf and stocker topics affecting producers in the three-state area. This year the program will focus on the seemingly little things that can make a big difference in cattle performance and profitability.
The Iowa Finance Authority Board of Directors today announced the award of a total of more than $11 million in grants to 26 Local Housing Trust Funds to support local housing initiatives. The grant awards are made available through the Local Housing Trust Fund program and are expected to assist 2,390 families.