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The Boone County Hospital has cancelled today’s Open House at the Madrid Clinic. The Open House will be rescheduled for sometime this spring. The Friends of the Ledges meeting, postponed from last week to tonight has now been cancelled due to the weather. The next Friends of the Ledges meeting will be on March 16th […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—The National Weather Service office in Des Moines has provided updated information about the expectations for additional precipitation overnight. Very windy conditions will continue. Conditions should improve Thursday, but colder air will return. (contributed information, NWS)

CLIVE, Iowa—A Boone County woman who scratched off a $50,000 lottery prize said her big win came with an unexpected side effect. “I was so excited I couldn’t go to sleep,” Patricia Rubin said with a laugh on Tuesday as she claimed her prize at lottery headquarters in Clive. Rubin, of Ogden, won the sixth […]

BOONE, Iowa—The City of Boone announces the availability of grant funding to support major homeimprovements and repairs to those that qualify. This grant program is designed to assist Boone homeowners in fixing up their homes. Funding partners include the City of Boone and the Central Iowa Housing Trust Fund (CIHTF). We anticipate that $90,000 in […]

BOONE, Iowa—The Boone County Hospital this afternoon announced that they are currently experiencing some issues with some of their telephone lines. A statement was released about 2:30 p.m. Currently, several of our phone lines in the Business Office are down.  We are working to get them back up and running.  We are sorry for the […]

DES MOINES, Iowa—The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship released the weekly fuel report and gasoline prices continued to drop. The price of regular unleaded gasoline fell 7 cents, averaging $3.19 across Iowa according to AAA. Crude Oil Summary The price of global crude oil fell this week on the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) […]

Ericson Public Library in Boone is closing at 5:00 PM today Boone Community Schools has closed for today Trinity Lutheran School has closed for today Boone County Meals on Wheels cancelled for today United Community School is closed for today Madrid Community Schools will dismiss at 12:30pm today. No PM preschool, no activities, no Kids […]