Your local newspaper, The Daily Freeman-Journal, historically had a little bit of everything from a news and information perspective. It provided local news that was uniquely sourced but it also provided ample amounts of state, national, and world news. It provided television listings, ...
The best outcome for Hamilton County is to have a long-term successful hospital that operates without a tax levy. I believe most residents would agree that achieving both should be the goal. I’m happy Van Diest Medical Center (VDMC) is operating profitably and is in a very strong financial ...
Hamilton County Public Hospital d.b.a. Van Diest Medical Center exists for one reason: to care for the people of Hamilton County and surrounding areas. That includes caring for you when you need emergency services, inpatient or outpatient care: that also includes the dedicated professionals ...
The Hometown Pride program that is being applied for by the Greater Hamilton County Partnership has an approach that gives me hope. It’s a given that every community across the country is lacking something. It shows up in several ways. Traditional churches are struggling with ...
To the editor: You may have heard that certain elected state officials wish to eliminate Township Trustees and also our right to elect a county Treasurer, Recorder and Auditor. In high school government class at South Hamilton (a public school), I learned that the United States of America ...
My paternal grandfather, who I knew as Opa, was born in 1899, the year the first automobiles were displayed in Iowa at the Linn County Fair. Opa celebrated his 11th birthday on April 29, 1910, less than a week before the first documented powered, heavier-than-air airplane flight in Iowa ...