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FIVE ISLAND LAKE -- Artist Marta Biittner is pictured in front of the new mural, commissioned by the Palo Alto Arts Council. Located in the middle of the 900 block, on the east side of Broadway, the ...

The first item of business for the Supervisors on Tuesday was another hog confinement. Aletha King presented the request to consider a conditional use permit & Matrix for Summit Pork IV. The location ...

Visitation for James “Jim” Schoning will be held from 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. on Thursday, June 19, 2025 at Bethel Lutheran Church in Graettinger, Iowa. Services will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Friday, ...

Quite a few of our local businesses are celebrating milestones - anniversaries of 10 or 20 years. Some businesses have been featured more than once in Progress as they grew, added services or moved to ...

In upcoming competitions Joel is confident that his largest pumpkins to date will be ready. The Bloomfield (Iowa) Giant Pumpkin Bash is held in early October. He will enter a pumpkin that weighs 1200 ...

The health dangers of foxtails The most common place where foxtails will burrow into a pet is the skin, especially in between dogs’ toes. A foxtail embedded into the skin can cause irritation, redness ...

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There are two funky exceptions: Uranus appears to have been tipped over on its side. Nobody knows exactly how. Maybe it collided with another planet. Venus is also odd – it spins backward. We don’t ...

Artist’s concept of a red dwarf star with an exoplanet in orbit. About two-thirds of the stars in the Milky Way are red dwarfs. Exoplanet is the name for worlds outside our solar system.

Finding first fossilized footprints in Kenya The first discovery of tracks of early hominins in Kenya’s Lake Turkana region happened by chance in 1978. A team led by one of us (Behrensmeyer) and ...

Yet, I’ve always loved and been fascinated by felines, ever since we adopted a shelter cat when I was 5 years old. And the more I’ve thought about those African wildcats, the more I’ve marveled at ...