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Our Town Belle Plaine: King Theatre
BELLE PLAINE, Iowa (KCRG) - The King Theatre has sat on Main Street in Belle Plaine for 94 years. “The King Theatre is a magical place where people of all ages have come for many decades to come, have fun with their family and friends,” says city administrator Stephen Beck. “It has a full stage on it, so it had vaudeville shows, live music. It has an orchestra pit. It also ran films there.”
Our Town Belle Plaine: Drahos Shoe Store
BELLE PLAINE, Iowa (KCRG) - Inside Drahos Shoe Store, on Main Street in Belle Plaine, lives generations of knowledge. “My grandfather was a Shoemaker in Bohemia. In 1904, he immigrated to the US. He was 17 years old. He had $22.60 in his pocket,” says Dan Drahos, the current owner and operator of Drahos Shoe Store. Don’s grandfather used those talents to start up a shoe repair business in Belle Plaine during the Great Depression, and eventually passed the business along to his son.
New whistleblower lawsuit alleges C6-Zero may have bribed Marengo safety official
MARENGO, Iowa (KGAN) — A former employee at C6-Zero is accusing the company of wrongful termination in a new lawsuit, claiming she was fired after blowing the whistle on the company's operations prior to the Marengo plant's explosion in December 2022. The lawsuit also alleges the company may have...
Stoplight Festival 2024 a swell time
TOLEDO — It was a warm July evening at the Stoplight Festival, which was held last Friday, July 12 in downtown Toledo. After previous run ins with a pandemic, weather, and RAGBRAI, the festival was up and running this year with a large turnout of citizens from near and far on hand to enjoy the event.
To my fellow citizens of the STC school district
This week is part 2 of a 6 part series I’m writing to inform our school district of things I’ve learned so far as a school board member. This week I’m writing about construction of the new middle school at the old juvenile home. The $30 million project helped to solve the community problem of what to do with the facility. The area is being constructed into an awesome learning center and 42 lots for new homes for our community. There were a lot of people involved with this process. It has truly been a community effort to get to this point. Anyone interested in buying a lot can contact the City of Toledo at 641-484-2160.
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