Aleisa Schat

SIOUX CENTER—It is still twilight when Evergreen Yoga • Barre • Fitness begins filling with people ahead of the twice-weekly Yoga Sculpt class at 5:30 a.m.

Two years after floodwaters swept through Rock Valley, the community was included in another round of funding announced by FEMA last week.

REGIONAL—The Federal Emergency Management Agency continues to announce new rounds of funding to benefit entities across N'West Iowa almost exactly two years after historic flooding swept across the region, damaging property and displacing hundreds.

REGIONAL—N'West Iowans are gearing up for lazier months ahead: summer vacations, days at the pool and long evenings with late sunsets. For many, the season of summer reading is here, and at area libraries, books are beginning to fly off the shelves.

Until I married my husband, I almost never made pizza because I was intimidated by the prospect of making and rolling the dough.

REGIONAL—Two years after damaging floodwaters swept into Hawarden, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced the approval of $289,980 to fund the acquisition of two of the properties included in its application to fund buyouts of residential properties through FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.

REGIONAL—The Sioux County Regional Airport has grown into a busy hub for air traffic since it first opened its runway in November 2018, and it only continues to expand.

Our family is headed to the upper peninsula of Michigan for a camping trip this week, and as usual, our Ford Econoline van will be packed to the hilt — two tents, s'mores supplies, an abundance of beach towels, seven kids, life jackets, a dog.

SIOUX CENTER—Jeff Taylor is accustomed to living his life in public view as a Republican state senator from Sioux Center, but until recently, there were few in his acquaintance who knew the story of miraculous healing that defined his childhood.

Our family is headed to the upper peninsula of Michigan for a camping trip this week, and as usual, our Ford Econoline van will be packed to the hilt —