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Restaurant inspection update: Four Iowa eateries temporarily suspend service
State and county food inspectors have cited Iowa restaurants and grocery stores for hundreds of food-safety violations in the past month, forcing some of them to temporarily shut down. The inspectors reported finding rodent droppings, moldy lettuce, food stored in containers that once housed chemicals, foul-smelling spoiled food, and meats that appeared to have never […]
Alleman working on development as co-op employees leave town
ALLEMAN, Iowa — The Heartland Co-op has decided to not staff the grain elevator after this harvest season. The West Des Moines based organization will use employees based at a new Heartland facility in Cambridge. Heartland Co-op has facilities all over the Midwest, this change is only about Alleman. The elevator will still be used […]
Locals plan to restore a dried-up "ancestral lake" in Polk County
In Saylor Township, there are dried-up remnants of a former lake hidden away from the fast-moving traffic alongside Northwest 66th Avenue and Northwest 26th Street.Why it matters: Property owner Steve Klein and several local agencies want to restore the wetland to its former vibrancy and conserve it for wildlife.Flashback: More than 100 years ago, Fisher Lake in northern Polk County was a popular spot for duck hunters and anglers to find game early each morning."Fisher's Lake, north of Des Moines, is known to every nimrod in this city," notes a 1919 Des Moines Register article. (Back then, "nimrod" referred to...
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