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Hot air balloons never left the ground at this year’s Quad City Balloon Festival, but for pilot Tom Klitz of Payson, Ill, the weekend still offered a chance to share the fascination that has kept him flying for more than two decades.
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Olivia Donahue, NSP Intern
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7/21/26
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A statewide study on the county-by-county consolidation of fire departments highlights just how difficult that move could be.
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Noah Glasgow, NSP Staff Writer
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7/21/26
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Scott County supervisors will intervene against Central Iowa Power Cooperative’s request to site a natural gas power plant outside Maysville.
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Noah Glasgow, NSP Staff Writer
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7/21/26
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The Iowa Agribusiness Radio Network, in partnership with Wyffels Hybrids and the Iowa State Fair announced the five recipients of the 2026 Heart of the County Fair Award. Richard Coussens, a board member of the Mississippi Valley Fair, was Iowa’s southeastern district winner.
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Olivia Donahue, NSP Intern
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7/21/26
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Long Grove City Council has ordered a dog that a bit a neighbor’s child removed from city limits.
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Noah Glasgow, NSP Staff Writer
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7/21/26
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Manatt’s of Camanche will repave stretches of three county roads later this year for $1.7 million.
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Noah Glasgow, NSP Staff Writer
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7/21/26
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Long Grove bid longtime Public Works Director Tony Saladino farewell last week—but not without a few gifts, and even a few lines of poetry.
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Noah Glasgow, NSP Staff Writer
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7/21/26
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The 44th annual Walcott Day Pie Contest held on July 18 raised $49,750 from the 43 peach pies that were entered.
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7/21/26
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Countryside Community Theatre is gearing up for its second show of the season. And this one is so fetch.
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Erin M. Gentz, NSP Editor
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7/21/26
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The repainted Long Grove water tower now displays a strawberry—the first, and most public, sign of a slate of water infrastructure improvements bound for the city.
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7/21/26
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Temperatures across Iowa were, on average, more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit above the climatological normal over the past week, and the statewide average precipitation was near zero according to the weather and crop report from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship for July 13 through July 19.
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Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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7/21/26
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A new report suggests Iowa’s agricultural industry is in a multi-year downturn that might not let up for a few more years, and experts are advising farmers to look back to the practices that got them through tough financial times a decade ago to weather the current storm.
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Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch
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7/21/26
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Step into the Summer Blooms Garden Walk 2026, hosted by the Scott County Master Gardeners. This year’s self guided tour highlights seven inspiring private gardens along with the Scott County Extension Office’s demonstration gardens, all located throughout Davenport and Bettendorf.
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7/21/26
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When 56 employees at the John Deere Dubuque Tractor Works pooled their resources in 1946, they weren't thinking about building a financial institution that would one day serve more than 53,000 members.
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7/21/26
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View the Scott County Sheriff's report from the July 22 NSP!
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7/21/26
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View the Eldridge Police report from the July 22 NSP!
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7/21/26
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Eldridge City Council will either fund the fire department at its $766K budget ask, or transition fire protection to a “city-operated department.”
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7/17/26
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This year's 41st running of the Moonlight Chase attracted 1,372 runners to downtown Eldridge. That's up more than 100 runners from last year.
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7/14/26
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Members of the Eldridge Volunteer Fire Company and the Eldridge City Council sat down face to face for the first time in months Monday night at the Eldridge Community Center. But it’s too soon to tell whether anything will come of that discussion, as the EVFC said its membership’s trust in the city has seriously frayed.
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Erin M. Gentz, NSP Editor
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7/14/26
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Long Grove Council Member Amy Shannon used AI to write a series of emails she sent to City Clerk Rose Guyer expressing concern about Guyer’s use of AI.
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Noah Glasgow, NSP Staff Writer
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7/14/26
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