This story has been updated to include the names and the ages of those involved in the accident. LA PORTE CITY - This past Tuesday evening, a Union High School student lost his life and four others were injured as a result of a car accident that took place in Black Hawk County following the ...
Friday Night Lights returned locally last Friday, Aug. 30, as both North Tama and Union hosted their season openers with the Redhawks facing the Hudson Pirates at Dennis Field and the Knights welcoming the Aplington-Parkersburg Falcons to Union Stadium. ‘Battle of 63’ TRAER – In the ...
LA PORTE CITY - Greetings from the Union Community School District! The summer has come and gone. As we begin the 2024-2025 academic year, I wanted to once again reiterate how grateful I am to be the superintendent for such a wonderful district. As in past years, my goal is to provide ...
DYSART – Ahead of the brutal heat that enveloped Iowa earlier this week, both the Union and North Tama County school districts launched their respective 2024-25 school years last Friday, Aug. 23, coinciding with the earliest possible date public schools in Iowa are allowed to begin ...
DES MOINES - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship will provide $2,000 grants to 137 participating school districts including Union Community School to purchase meat, eggs, produce, dairy and other local foods from area ...
DYSART – The Dysart Garden Club recently named Lynda Robison’s charming urban acreage on Estelle Street as the club’s ‘Blue Ribbon Flowers of the Month’ for August – a designation Robison both welcomes and finds bittersweet as this is the first growing season in more than four ...
LA PORTE CITY – The Union Community School District Board of Education has approved a $20.5 million bond referendum that will appear on the ballot Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. Petitions asking the board to place the bond question on the ballot circulated in the communities in recent weeks. After ...
IRVINE PRAIRIE – What do prairie roots look like? A recent dig at Irvine Prairie north of Dysart set out to answer that very question. Last Monday and Tuesday, August 5 and 6, staff with UNI’s Tallgrass Prairie Center (TPC) dug a pit – roughly 10 feet deep and 12 feet wide – and ...
DYSART – Law enforcement officers, by the nature of their jobs, often meet people in less than ideal circumstances, but National Night Out – an annual event held in cities across the country on the first Tuesday in August – aims to foster police-community partnerships by bringing them ...
DYSART – The Union Community School District will install a new playground at Dysart-Geneseo Elementary School the week of August 12. To cover the full cost of the playground, members of the Dysart-Geneseo Playground Committee fundraised approximately $200,000 dollars through private ...