by admin | May 31, 2003 | Human Interest
The state’s historic aviation museum in Greenfield hosts a dinner tonight and will add new names to its Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame. Creston native Walt Cunningham, Iowa’s first astronaut, will be among them. Cunningham will be signing copies of a book...
by admin | May 31, 2003 | Outdoors
A couple of state beaches still have problems with high levels of bacteria. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says a swimming advisory remains in place at the Lake Geode beach in Henry County — while the beach at Backbone State Park in Delaware County is...
by admin | May 31, 2003 | Human Interest
If you “dig” fossil-hunting, thousands of beautiful examples can be found at the Devonian Fossil Gorge, north of Iowa City. The acre-and-a-half area was scoured during the floods of ’93, unveiling a rich collection of tiny creatures that lived in...
by admin | May 31, 2003 | Weather
Early storms in May helped the state soak up the first above-average rainfall total for the first time in eight months. State climatologist Harry Hillaker says we didn’t go above normal by much. He says the first part of the month was extremely wet, but then it...
by admin | May 31, 2003 | Business
Iowa’s jobless rate was up just a tick this month, a tenth of a percentage point. Ann Wagner is labor-market analyst at the state Workforce development office. Says that’s a tenth of a percent higher than the March rate of four-percent, same as it was one...
