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For the third year, downtown Muscatine will hold what has been called a “Latin celebration unlike any other” when Viva Muscatine returns.

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After requesting a “soft” lockdown of all Louisa County schools on Friday, Sept. 26, the Louisa County Sheriff's Office has reported an unspecified threat came from an out-of-state individual with local ties.

As she sat in field 2 of Kent-Stein Park Saturday evening waiting for the candlelit vigil for political activist and media personality Charlie Kirk to begin, Jessica Barker thought about

Lindsey Schoneman has always had a gift for determining what use a building could serve. The first time she walked into the former Wilcox Furniture building at 418 Main Ave. it clicked off in her head – “mini mall.” Since purchasing the land- mark building in downtown Clear Lake, the first order of business was to modify the building, […]

Two teachers at Clear Creek Elementary came to school Monday and found themselves mothers to a litter of baby ducks that had hatched underneath the school’s slide. Special education instructors Jill Wurth and Taylor Hill had been monitoring the progress of the eggs for about a month. With a little assistance from retired Department of Natural Resources (DNR) worker Ron […]

With Artificial Intelligence (AI) being one of the coming things, the Clear Lake School District is working to make sure the new technology will be an asset to student learning and not a liability. Clear Lake Schools Superintendent Ian Dye can show examples of high school students who took the ACT tests, then used AI to find out where their […]

About 60 people attended a public hearing Wednesday evening to discuss a petition to the Iowa Utilities Commission (IUC) for Alliant Energy to build a 1200 MW natural gas-fired power plant in rural Cerro Gordo County, but much discussion was given to a recent IUC decision to allow a solar project and to rumors of a data center coming to […]

On Friday, hundreds of people gathered in the street in front of 205 Main Avenue to mark the end of a project and the beginning of the new front door for Clear Lake. With the snip of a pair of large ornamental scissors and the fall of a ribbon, the new Clear Lake Area Chamber and Welcome Center building officially […]