Grimes News

Urbandale city leaders plan to spend about $161 million on road improvement projects across the city in the next decade.

Jensen Students at Jensen Elementary School have been collecting Box Tops for Education this year.

The best thing about being retired is not having a schedule. The worst thing about being retired is not having a schedule.

The public safety departments that make up the largest share of Johnston's annual government operations budget laid out their wish lists for fiscal year 2010-11 last week.

Jensen This school year seems to be zipping by with Thanksgiving just passing and the winter break nearing.

An easier ride along Aurora Avenue west to Webster Elementary School is planned under a new city road project.

The sight of plows being disassembled the afternoon of Dec. 10 was one sign Johnston's public works director could claim victory over the onslaught of snow that ended the day before.

Sometimes even rescuers need to be rescued. Dan Nicodemus left his Des Moines home around 2 a.m. to clear snow from a condo complex in Grimes.

Breanna Ellis of Johnston, 18, a freshman elementary education major at Northwestern College in Orange City, is a member of the Northwestern College Saxophone Quartet, which will perform a joint concert with Northwestern's Brass Quintet at Christ Chapel on the campus at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

In about a year and a half, Grimes residents who rely on limited Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority bus service will have to find an alternate means of transportation.

Metro Waste Authority officials are reminding residents of the end of the Compost It! season for cities across the metro.

A charity event at a West Des Moines bar raised $1,100 for the infant son of an Iraq war veteran who was shot and killed in Des Moines this month.

Nine area high school choirs will serenade shoppers at West Glen Town Center from 1 to 5 p.m. Dec.

Area high school choirs will perform from 1 to 5 p.m. Dec. 5 in the West Glen Town Center, at Interstate Highway 35 and Mills Civic Parkway in West Des Moines.

Grimes, Ia. - The Gingerbread House in Grimes, also known as the home of Bob Jordan, will continue a 15-year tradition when the switch is flipped on Jordan's holiday light display Thanksgiving night.

Johnston High School seniors put their phone skills to use this month by calling families in the district to ask for money for Dollars for Scholars.

Jensen On Oct. 2, Jensen Elementary fourth grade students took a field trip to Banker's Trust.

Nothing gets Urbandale Parks and Recreation Director Jan Herke more excited than talking about plans to develop a 224-acre regional park in the western part of the city.

Grimes Park and Recreation's monthly preschool party for October was Spook-tacular Fun.

How big is too big for the city of Johnston? Residents who have attended several early meetings to address an update to the city's comprehensive development plan have tussled with what Johnston should look like 10 or 20 years from now.