Blakesburg News

Twenty-eight members of Community 1st Credit Union's Golden Opportunity travel club recently vacationed in Australia and New Zealand.

City residents use more chemicals on their lawns than farmers do on their fields.

Educators have suffered cuts before. But not like the 10 percent across-the-board cuts proposed by Gov.

Organization's Annual Fly-In Makes 'Golden Age' Come Alive for Enthusiasts Founded in August of 1953 by Robert L. Taylor, the Antique Aircraft Association is the world's oldest organization specifically devoted to antique and classic aircraft.

RAGBRAI riders make their way down Bluegrass Road Thursday between Blakesburg and Ottumwa.

Over the past 37-year history, the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa has evolved from a chance for a few friends to take a ride across the state to largest bicycle touring event in the world.

For fun, health, family time and yes, even pie, thousands flock to the Hawkeye State to ride their two-wheelers across Iowa.

Any time you add 20,000 people to an Iowa city overnight, there is a chance things will go wrong.

Whether they're "just passin' through" or stopping for a meal, the RAGBRAI riders are a welcome sight to southeast Iowans.

It'll be mostly smooth sailing for RAGBRAI bicyclists heading into and out of Ottumwa next week.

Visual Arts judge Michelle Johnson, left, looks at Jacob Bunnell's project Wednesday during the Wapello County 4-H Expo which continues through Sunday at Bridge View Center and Ottumwa Park.

From bird houses to pillows, brownies to floral arrangements. Those projects and more were judged and displayed Wednesday during the Wapello County 4-H Expo at the Bridge View Center.

If you've ever thought about public service, now is the time to act. Monday was the start of the filing period to run for a public school board.

A trip to DEKEL's Steak House in Blakesburg is a treat for the palate. The restaurant opened a little more than a year ago four evenings a week, from 4-9 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday; and 4-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

The Eddyville-Blakesburg School Board this week discussed its desire to continue a longstanding agreement of whole-grade sharing at the high school level with the Fremont school district.

Four area young women will compete for the 2009 Wapello County Fair Queen and Fair Princess crowns.

Information about an incident involving police, the sheriff's department and a hearse is not being released.

Things are looking a little brighter for the Eddyville Childcare Center. "It's now running in a positive mode," said Eddyville-Blakesburg School Board Vice President Deb Bahr during a board meeting this week.

BOYS - Tipton senior Eric Thien won the 3,200 meters in 9:33.34, with Eddyville-Blakesburg's Zach Baker taking second .

A crash Thursday evening sent two people to the hospital. The Iowa State Patrol says vehicles driven by James Curtis, 24, of Albia and Angella Cartwright, 40, of Blakesburg, collided at Highway 34 and 215th Avenue.