On Thursday November 16 Types of Gardening Techniques will be the topic at the Noon horticulture presentations by Mahaska County Master Gardeners Aideen Vega Van Auken and Ezra Mixdorf. You have heard of some planting methods, but probably not all of them. Learn more about how simple or complex various methods can be. The presentation […]
Join the Mahaska County Master Gardeners as they host a Herbal Tea Time and workshop on Thurday, November 16 at 6:30 pm at the Mahaska County Extension office; 212 North I Street, Oskaloosa. Mahaska County Master Gardeners Veronica Grim and Ann Evans will have an Herb Pesto Demonstration and a “Tea Time” talk. The Tea […]
DES MOINES-The Department of Management Division of Information Technology, formerly the Office of the Chief Information Officer, awarded $148,960,000 as part of the Empower Rural Iowa Broadband Grant program. 39 broadband provider applications representing 47 Iowa counties received a Notice of Intent to Award (NOIA) for applications submitted under NOFA #008. This round of grant […]
OTTUMWA– Indian Hills Community College has been awarded a federal grant to strengthen cybersecurity training in rural Iowa. The Growing Rural Iowa’s Cybersecurity Workforce Project will enable IHCC to add more cybersecurity curriculum into its existing cybersecurity and systems administration associate of applied science degree program. Other project initiatives include restructuring the curriculum to add […]
Now is the time to place your votes for the Main Street Young Ambassador of your choice. Twenty local children, ages three through kindergarten are seeking monetary votes to become this year’s Young Ambassadors. Local merchants who are sponsoring the children have banks with the name and picture of the child on the bank. Money […]
PELLA—Central College men’s basketball center Josh Van Gorp (senior, Pella) has received preseason all-America honors from D3hoops.com. The D3hoops.com preseason list included five teams and tabbed Van Gorp for the fifth team. Van Gorp, a 6-foot-10 post, was the first player in program history to receive National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America distinction last spring. […]
Maintaining secure borders is essential to our national security, sovereignty, economic stability, and public health. It is the fundamental duty of the government to safeguard its citizens and their interests. However, President Joe Biden’s radical open border policies have directly put every community at risk. Since President Biden took office, there have been over 6.2 […]
Ottumwa, IA – Facing a 2-1 deficit heading into the fourth set, No. 18 Indian Hills Volleyball battled back to knock off visiting Des Moines Area Community College 3-2 at the Hellyer Center on Monday night. The Warriors close out the regular season with a 26-10 overall record. The Warriors rallied with an impressive stretch […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (Oct. 30, 2023) — Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig commented on the Iowa Crop Progress and Condition Report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. The report is released weekly April through November. Additionally, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship provides a weather summary each week during this […]
DES MOINES – Today, Gov. Reynolds announced a new $6.5 million investment in communities to bolster tourism and quality of life through Destination Iowa. The grant initiative, which launched in 2022 with federal funding, became a state-funded initiative following approval from the Iowa legislature this year. “Destination Iowa has inspired communities statewide to dream big […]
