Category Archives: Iowa Miscellaneous

Dec 10

Warren County Courthouse: Everything must go

Everything not nailed down, and some things that are, at the Warren County Courthouse in Indianola will be auctioned off Dec. 14. (Link: KNIA/KRLS, but tipped off on WHO.) The 1939 courthouse will be replaced next year. Warren County is … Continue reading

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Dec 06

Casey’s popping up in more Iowa towns

May 7, 2018: Just inside the city limits of Lone Tree is a brand new Casey’s. This photo was taken for my IA 405 page. Iowa’s homegrown gas station chain, Casey’s, is marking its 50th anniversary this year. In the … Continue reading

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Nov 13

Fleet Farm Fleet

Blain’s Farm & Fleet was one of the first retail developments at the corner of IA 58 and Viking Road, opening in 1999. Beside it sprung up a Wal-Mart. Then, about a decade or so ago, the retail boom there … Continue reading

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Nov 12

Goldfield Cheese Mart is 50 years old

Enough cheese for every man, woman, and child in town. Probably.

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Nov 08

50-50, plus one, for 2020

While there will be many women voting the democratic ticket, there is no question that that in the northern states the republican party will be largely the gainer and if there was any hope of the sporting candidate, “Wet Jim”, … Continue reading

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Oct 10

America’s Finest News Source strikes again

Iowa Aims To Keep Young People From Moving Out Of State With New ‘The Stress Will Kill Your Mother’ Retention Campaign I mean, it’s not like anything else has worked. a press conference advising Iowan millennials to find a nice … Continue reading

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Oct 04

Quincy-Dish dispute enters Week 6

I forgot to reset the retransmission-fee-dispute counter after finding out that Dish Network dropped multiple stations covering parts of Iowa from its system on Aug. 29. They are the Quincy Newspapers stations, including KWWL, KTIV, and KTTC along with their … Continue reading

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Sep 26

Town’s worth of housing coming to Bondurant

Earlier this month, the Bondurant city council approved plats for two developments that will add 240 homes, the Des Moines Register reported. The once-small suburb more than doubled in population between 2000 and 2010 to become Iowa’s 99th-largest city. In 2015, … Continue reading

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Sep 11

Johnston annexation puts it on the state highway system

The State of Iowa City Development Board meeting tomorrow includes an annexation by the city of Johnston. Based on a notice from earlier this year, Johnston is making plans to bring a portion of the IA 141 corridor under its control. … Continue reading

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Aug 22

Long-idle southeast Iowa pages get new photos

June 18, 2018: Old IA 79 remains labeled “DMC Hwy 79” but Des Moines County changed it to J20 — while not doing anything to Old US 34, which runs east from here. Middletown prettied up the intersection with a … Continue reading

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