Bob Hansen

They are the banners to which patriots and revolutionaries have flocked, and they are also the standards beneath which the malcontents and the unprincipled have ravaged.

WEST POINT — In the Lee County community of West Point, a deconstruction crew from Burlington's Preservation Station is industriously erasing a building that once housed an important chapter in the history of this largely German Catholic town and its landmark St. Mary's Church of the Assumption, founded in 1842 as a mission church.

It was a jumbled village built of rough cut lumber and tinder dry logs and heated with open flame.

Scores of small red flags are rising among the bronze and stone monuments in Burlington's winter-wrapped Aspen Grove Cemetery.

This story by a 19th century writer could have been ripped from today’s headlines — a mother is temporarily distracted, a small child mysteriously disappears and a community rallies in a desperate search.

Everyone has a part to play in bettering the place they live, according to Brad Bowman. His place — Cambridge City — honored him as its 2024 Citizen of the Year for his many activities in community betterment. It didn’t take long for Bowman to realize he had been chosen when Beth Leisure, the 2023 […]

Hagerstown has confirmed that it intends to quit the Economic Development Corporation of Wayne County. The town departed from its usual four-year agreement with EDC, only partnering until the end of 2025. Some council members have expressed dissatisfaction with the EDC for several months, deciding in October to renew the contract for one year. On […]

Hagerstown’s Hometown Christmas festival on Saturday, Dec. 7, featured an expanded schedule of events and activities this year, including horse-drawn carriage rides, a holiday dance recital, vendors and a lighted parade. View photos of the events in our online gallery below. A version of this article appeared in the December 11 2024 print edition of […]

Apples and Iowa go way back. Even before the state had a town, a road, or even a farm — it had an apple orchard.

Beware the impulse to answer the rap-tapping at your door in the dark of the night. Forbear the urge to leap from your snug-a-bed in response to the unexpected midnight