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Iowa labor experts speak on UnityPoint unionization efforts, worker challenges

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As the United States honors the efforts of its labor movement and workers this Labor Day Weekend, Iowa labor experts say workers are “making the labor movement every day,” amidst weaker bargaining laws, attacks from corporations and other challenges everyone is facing, whether they hold a union card or not. Jesse Case, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 238, and Jennifer Sherer, deputy director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Economic Analysis and Research Network and director of the institute’s Worker Power Project, spoke on “Iowa Press” Sept. 4 about efforts of ...

Turning Back the Pages of Time

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1926 Interior of St. Thomas Aquinas church is entirely refinished The refinishing of the interior of the St. Thomas Aquinas church, which has been in progress for the last five weeks is now nearly completed. The work has been done by the Conrad-Schmidt company of Milwaukee, who are specialists in church decorating. Geo. L. Shryoek of this city, has been assisting the company and is not finishing the work. The work has been done at a cost of $2,000 to this church. As one enters, the attention immediately centers upon the altar. This has been beautifully repainted and gilded. The ...

Decades of August roadside surveys in Iowa show wildlife and habitat changes

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Every August, for over half a century, Iowa Department of Natural Resource staff have set out along gravel roads at dawn, armed with a set of binoculars and, now, an interactive logging application, to survey the landscape for pheasants and other wildlife. Todd Bogenschutz, an upland wildlife biologist with DNR, has driven the same 30-mile stretch of farm roads in Boone County for the past 30 years. On a cloudy, early August morning, he jumped out of his truck, clapping his hands loudly, in an attempt to “flush” a family of pheasants out of the brush they ducked into as the ...

Van Diest Supply celebrates 70th anniversary on Sept. 11

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The Van Diest Supply Company will be hosting an Open House on Friday, inviting the public to join them in celebrating the 70th Anniversary of their business. There will be guided tours offered of their facility in addition to a lunch. The event begins at 11 a.m. and continues until 1 p.m., ...

Downtown revitalization, water main on council agenda tonight.

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When the City Council of Webster City meets tonight, two issues are likely to dominate its deliberations: whether to authorize spending up to $1,250,000 in TIF funds for downtown revitalization, and whether to award a contract for $325,728.04 for water main extensions on the east side, principally to serve Mary Ann’s Specialty Foods. In August, 2023, the building at Willson Avenue and Second Street, once home to Coulter’s Drapery Shop, was declared unsafe. The possibility of falling brick, and danger to pedestrians on the sidewalk caused it to be barricaded in August, 2023. Three ...

Tickets now on sale for the Birthday Club

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Tickets are now on sale for Webster City Community Theatre’s upcoming production of Birthday Club, a comedy by playwright Phil Olson. Birthday Club follows five women who gather to celebrate their birthdays together. But between the cake, candles and birthday wishes, their gatherings reveal the joys, frustrations, surprises and challenges that come with friendship and life. Filled with humor and heart, the play celebrates the special bonds that sustain us through life’s many changes. The cast features Nichole Ose as Kathy, Rachel Derrig as Sarah, Jeanette Tempel as Cheryl, ...