Muscatine News

AJ Paron-Wildes, A+D manager at Allsteel , has a unique signature in the way she does things--she rallies the forces with her bubbly infectious personality.

A Walford company will construct and operate a 600,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center for Kent Corp.

Construction will begin soon on a new 600,000 square foot GTSC Logistics warehouse and distribution center in Muscatine, Iowa.

Bertha Chewning, 102, of Muscatine, died Thursday, May 9, 2013, in the Carrington Place in Muscatine.

Before F. Scott Fitzgerald made a name for himself with "This Side of Paradise" , he took a job as an ad man at the Barron Collier agency in Manhattan.

Flood victims in eight eastern Iowa counties who are eligible for the state's low-income disaster grant program can apply for vouchers if they don't have cash to make repairs.

In October 2012, two University of Iowa physicians -- Drs. Nicole Nisly and Katie Imborek -- opened a once-a-week clinic for a population that has been under-served by the medical establishment across the state and nation: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning Clinic.

Some notebook leftovers from last weekend's Hy-Vee races: The half marathon records for the Drake Relays road races, first called On-the-Roads and now Hy-Vee, were going to be beaten Sunday.

West Bancorporation Inc., the parent company of West Bank, topped all Iowa-based banks in an American Banker report released Tuesday.

The meeting also will be broadcast at the Iowa City Public Library. Members of the public are invited to attend the hearings and can provide comments to the task force.

An organization has given the University of Northern Iowa a $2 million grant to launch a new center for educational research and development.

As light rain bounced off the hats of the Union Army soldiers Saturday afternoon, 3rd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry gunner Dave ... John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Jeff Paetz of Muscatine, portraying a soldier from Company M of the 3rd Iowa, fires his weapon Saturday before the start of the re-enactment of the Battle of the Chickasaw Bayou at Rand ... (more)

Whether the May 7 vote on the $43.5 million justice center bond passes or fails, county officials will have to decide what to do about an aging lock system at the Johnson County Jail.

Grain Processing Corporation manufactures and markets corn-based products. It is a wholly- owned subsidiary of Kent Corporation.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Musserville United Methodist Church. The Geo.

A roundup of legislative and Capitol news items of interest for Tuesday, April 23, 2013: Budget conferences: State lawmakers sent two more fiscal 2014 budget bills to House-Senate conference committees on Tuesday.

Several Mississippi River cities are seeing some flooding including Dubuque, Burlington, Keokuk, and Muscatine.

The CMA CGM Group announced that the CMA CGM Alexander Von Humboldt, second of the world's largest and state of the art containership's series, begins its first voyage today, Friday, April 19th in Pusan, South Korea.

Following a six-year acquisition program, the Government of the Bahamas announced the signing of a letter of intent to acquire nine vessels for the Royal Bahamas Defense Force and construction work for their naval bases.

Seven Mississippi River locks between Muscatine, Iowa, and Saverton, Missouri, were expected to close beginning on Friday as the rain-swollen waterway rises above flood stage, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Thursday.