Publisher Bill Tubbs' "Impressions" column will return next week. He is in India this week, where he is immunizing children against polio – a crippling disease that still paralyzes and sometimes … [Read more...]

The odds of becoming much of a success were against  Simon Estes when he was just a kid growing up in Centerville, Iowa, and being discriminated against because of his color. His grandfather had been … [Read more...]

Feb. 23, 1972 Three Scott County couples began terms on the board of directors of the Scott County Beef Producers. New directors included Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Albrecht of Long Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Ed … [Read more...]

For many people, a trip to Disneyworld would be the experience of a lifetime. The shows, the rides, the characters, the fountains and flowers and food. There’s so much to see and do, you could spend … [Read more...]

This week's visit in Iowa by Chinese vice president and soon-to-be-president Xi Jinping is of the same historic importance as the 1959 visit to Iowa of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. It also … [Read more...]

Feb. 16, 1972 North Scott students Pam Hinkle, Julie Albrecht, Deena Little, Jayne Kluever, Connie Brigman, Mike Wallace, Jed Nagle, Kevin Jansen, Mark DeWulf and Dale Cox served as waiters and … [Read more...]

It was worth the wait, and Eugene Kreiter finally got his redemption. Oh, how sweet it is when one of your lifelong dreams finally comes full circle. No one knows the agony of defeat better … [Read more...]