About two dozen volunteers from seven area departments took Fire Fight I class Feb. 25 at the Eldridge fire station to meet National Fire Protection standards.
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3/6/24
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Iowa cities and counties could not enact guaranteed income programs under a bill passed Monday by the Iowa House.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/6/24
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Legislation requiring schools to include information about vaccine exemptions in communications about immunization passed the Iowa Senate Monday.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/6/24
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Scott County Legislative Forum reconvenes 10 a.m., Saturday, March 9 at Scott Community College, Belmont Campus, 500 Belmont Road. The entrance to use is the Welcome Center entrance between doors 4 …
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3/6/24
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The Iowa House passed the Higher Education Reform Act, House File 2558 Feb. 28 on partisan lines, 56-39. As amended, the bill would cap tuition at 3% and freeze it for certain students’ four years of undergraduate studies and prohibit the creation of new administrator positions without Board of Regents’ approval.
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3/6/24
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Iowa is poised to join states including Georgia and Utah in passing a state version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 2024 as House lawmakers sent the legislation to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds Thursday.
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Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/6/24
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Eldridge Lions Club members pose with 101 Monarch memory tree ornaments at the Scott County Library in Eldridge.
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3/6/24
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Supervisors bought three Ford trucks from McGrath Auto, Hiawatha, which provided bids lower than Lindquist Ford, Bettendorf, and Stivers Ford, Waukee.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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3/6/24
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On Thursday, Feb. 29, members of the cast and crew of Lancer Productions' upcoming "Beauty and the Beast" gathered to help unload costumes, props and set pieces that were purchased from a school in Florida.
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3/6/24
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Council members voted to restrict future tobacco or vape stores to the city’s industrial areas.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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3/6/24
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200 South, North Scott’s premier jazz choir, earned a Division I rating and a near-perfect score at the State Jazz Choir Festival, held Feb. 5 at North Scott.
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3/6/24
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Mashed potatoes and pizza are popular foods on their own. But a group of students in Jan Garland’s fourth-grade class at Walcott Elementary School took a chance and combined the two, winning a statewide agriculture contest in the process.
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Erin M. Gentz, NSP Editor
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3/12/24
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Sales and service of Deere’s biggest products return to Scott County with P&K Midwest’s acquisition of River Valley Turf.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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3/12/24
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Eldridge city council and staff filed Freedom of Information Act requests to compel the city utility board to divulge text, emails, bylaws, and meeting recordings.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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3/12/24
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Anticipation buzzed through the Scott County Library as the steady sound of pencils scraping paper reverberated through the room. Fifteen students murmured in concentration as teams clustered, ready to tackle question after question.
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Riley Johnson, NSP Intern
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3/12/24
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The Eldridge utility board and its former chairman on Tuesday asked a judge to overrule the mayor and council, restore the chairman, and bill the city for all legal expenses.
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Mark Ridolfi, NSP Managing Editor
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3/13/24
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View the Eldridge Police report from the March 13 NSP!
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3/13/24
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View the Scott County Sheriff's report from the March 13 NSP!
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3/13/24
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The Dixon Cemetery will hold its annual meeting at 6 p.m. March 26 at the Dixon Fire Station.
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3/13/24
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A bill that would expand the time period in which deer can be killed to prevent damage to crops and trees did not get support from an Iowa Senate subcommittee on Monday.
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Iowa Capital Dispatch
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3/13/24
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