The recent hot weather has made it easy to work up a sweat golfing. Palmer Hills in Bettendorf has renovated several holes, including changing the teebox on number 9.
Duck Creek overflowed its banks during last week's heavy rains, prompting concern among nearby homeowners. With a break in the rainy weather, the water level quickly dropped back to within the river banks.
The colder than normal weather hasn't kept the tulips from blooming. With record cold temperatures this spring, the emergence of flowers and leaves on the trees has been slow-going.
Steve Grimes recommended to the Board to apply for the transportation enhancement funds for the River Drive Recreation Trail now that all the properties needed have been purchased.
The REAP grant applications are due in July and Bi-State Regional Commission has been assisting putting them together. He had two recommendations for grant applications: (1) Acquisition of the Church of Latter Day Saints property for access to the Duck Creek Recreation Trail. The appraisal completed by Doug Nelson for the 15 acres totaled $75,000. Some of the 15 acres is developable. (2) Funds for the initial development of Field Sike Park.
The federal government is taking an Iowa dog breeder to court, seeking a court order that will allow inspectors onto the property for the first time since 2024.
A judge has ordered the federal government to state why it has jailed, for almost two years, an immigration detainee now being held in the Muscatine County Jail.
Nearly 79% of students who used Iowa’s funding program for K-12 private schools were “already projected” to attend private schools, according to a report released Wednesday by Iowa... more
The Attorney Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Iowa has sanctioned a former attorney for the City of Davenport for allegedly withholding information from select city aldermen.