Bob Hansen

The Heritage Trust, a non-profit preservation and restoration organization, is expanding its capacity, and breathing life into a large, 19th century former funeral home, car dealership and, most recently, a glass and building supply company.

How and why John Pembleton came to Burlington has been lost to history.

The report, which surveyed 265 members of the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services audience, explores the importance of digital transformation and agile planning within the finance function.

Hagerstown finds itself without a building commissioner for the third time in a year as pressure builds for the town to take action on unsafe properties. Several residents asked the Town Council on Oct. 7 for action on a house and yard that has become an eyesore over the past year. The building commissioner’s resignation […]

Prohibition on the sale and consumption of alcohol made a number of visits to Iowa long before it arrived as a Federal law with the passage of the Volstead Act

Prohibition on the sale and consumption of alcohol made a number of visits to Iowa long before it arrived as a Federal law with the passage of the Volstead Act in the 1920s, with one of the first attempts to force Iowans to go “dry” arriving in 1874.

Modern Barber Shop on Burlington's Jefferson Street is an anachronism.

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.