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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 […]
Attorney sues state for alleged defamation, wrongful discharge
An Iowa-licensed attorney who was fired from the Iowa Department of Health and Human Service is now suing the state for alleged defamation and wrongful discharge. Attorney James Sheets of Des Moines worked for Iowa DHHS, then known as the Iowa Department of Human Services, only briefly, from June 10, 2022, until Aug. 19, 2022. […]
More than 20 Iowa communities will benefit from rural small business grant
Minden, Perry, West Branch and a collection of towns in southeast Iowa have been selected as pilot projects for the Rural Business Initiative, a project from Iowa Rural Development Council. The project will support existing small businesses in rural Iowa as they build back from disasters, forge regional collaboration and spiff up business districts. The […]
Month of September in Iowa One for the Record Books
(Des Moines) State Climatologist Dr. Justin Glisan has reported that Iowa received an average of eight-tenths of an inch of rainfall for September, making it the driest September on record preliminarily in the 152 years of recorded data. Dr. Glisan noted that the state’s southwest region received only 30 percent...
Sixty Forward Center new vision for aging in Ames
AMES, Iowa — The community of Ames gathered to cut the ribbon Saturday on the 60 Forward Center. This new $10 million senior facility is a partnership between the City of Ames, Mary Greeley Medical Center, and Heartland of Story County. It was built with a $300,000 Cares Act Grant through the Story County Board […]
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