Newly-elected trustees, left to right, include Leslee S Hager (’93), Darrell Owens (’90), Dr Brigit E Ray (’07), Daryl Roser (’91), Matthew Stoodley (’97), and the Rev Lamont Anthony Wells

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (October 16, 2023) — Augustana College announces the election of six members of the college’s Board of Trustees. The new trustees were elected October 6 during the college’s fall trustee meeting and will serve a term of four years.

CEDAR FALLS, IOWA (October 18, 2023) — Community leader and small-business owner Sarah Corkery will seek the Democratic nomination for Iowa’s second congressional district in the United States House of Representatives, she announced Wednesday.

LeCLAIRE, IOWA (October 17, 2023) — The LeClaire Community Library invites the community to a special presentation. On Tuesday, November 7, 6PM, the Figge Museum will join the regular Hands-on Art History program to present “Native American and Western Art.”

DES MOINES, IOWA (October 17, 2023) — Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird joined a 27-state coalition of Attorneys General in demanding that the Biden Administration fix its catch-and-release policies to stop the mass release of illegal aliens into the US and secure the southern border.

LeCLAIRE, IOWA (October 17, 2023) On Thursday, November 16 at 6 PM Brian “Fox” Ellis presents Blackhawk’s View of American History.

DES MOINES, IOWA (October 17, 2023) — State Treasurer Roby Smith encourages families to utilize College Savings Iowa to help prepare for their little ghosts' and ghouls' future education. "Halloween is meant to be the scariest time of the year, but it's also an opportunity to ask your children what they want to be when they grow up," said Smith.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (October 17, 2023) — Earlier this month, Monmouth College hosted a ceremony to dedicate a headstone for respected nineteenth-century citizen Champion Miller, a former slave who bought his freedom.

But how were esteemed members of a community memorialized roughly 6,000 years ago?

BETTENDORF, IOWA (October 17, 2023) — One of the Quad Cities' landmark restaurant couples, Ron and Cynthia Freidhof, will be retiring after over fifty years of running Ross’ Restaurant in Bettendorf. They will also be listing the Bettendorf property, located at 2297 Falcon Avenue in Bettendorf, for sale on October 17. Alex Kelly, NAI Ruhl Commercial Company (licensed in Iowa and Illinois), will be assisting the Freidhof family.

GALESBURG, ILLINOIS (October 16, 2023) — Nova Singers, under the direction of Dr Laura Lane, opens their 2023-24 season with two performances of When We Love, Saturday, October 21, 7:30PM, at First Lutheran Church, 364 E Water Street, Galesburg, and Sunday, October 22, 4PM, at St Paul Lutheran Church, 2136 Brady Street, Davenport.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (October 16, 2023) — Last week, the Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin for research on the workplace gender gap. Goldin's research helps explain why women around the world are less likely than men to work (50% vs. 80%) and to earn less money (13% less) when they do.

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