DeWITT, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — With a goal to support career and technical education training throughout the region, Eastern Iowa Community Colleges is celebrating the start of construction for the Clinton Community College Career Advancement Center in DeWitt, Iowa, on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 10AM.

DES MOINES, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — More than 600 credit union leaders, exhibitors, speakers, and guests gathered in-person in Des Moines and online August 28-30 for the annual Iowa Credit Union Convention. This year’s convention celebrated the impact Iowa credit unions have made over the past year and explored new ways credit unions can impact the financial lives of Iowans moving forward.

DES MOINES, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller unveiled today a website dedicated to providing Iowans with a path to recovery from Opioid Use Disorder. 

FAYETTE, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — Upper Iowa University has announced the Dean's List for the 2022 Summer Semester. To be honored, a student must have earned a minimum 3.50 grade-point average and be enrolled as a full-time student.

Gage Howard of Bettendorf IA

Marisol Lopez of Davenport IA

Stacey Smith of Eldridge IA

Emily Brade of Muscatine IA

Jadyn King of Rock Island IL

Mario Madrigal of Muscatine IA

Brittany Offutt of Davenport IA

PELLA, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — Liz Hurlbut of Muscatine, Iowa, Central kinesiology major and Class of 2023, completed an athletic training internship with the Quad City Steamwheelers during the spring and summer semesters. She is working toward a pre-athletic training graduate program. John Roslien, associate professor of kinesiology, attended a game to watch her in action prepping players during the pregame.

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (September 19, 2022) — The Rock Island County Health Department (RICHD) will have only fifty doses of the new Moderna bivalent booster available for its regular Tuesday COVID-19 vaccination clinic on September 20. Doses of the Pfizer bivalent booster vaccine will be offered when this week’s Moderna supply runs out.

IOWA CITY, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — The University of Iowa continues to attract high-achieving students.

This fall's incoming first-year class has topped previous records with an average high-school grade-point average (GPA) of 3.82. The average high-school GPA for the classes of 2025 and 2024 were 3.81 and 3.78, respectively.

It is also the third-largest incoming first-year class on record at 5,178 students, after 5,643 in the fall of 2016 and 5,241 in the fall of 2015.

Scott County Auditor Kerri Tompkins and Secretary Pate presenting the trophy to student

BETTENDORF, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate presented the Carrie Chapman Catt Award to Rivermont Collegiate on Thursday, September 15. The award goes to any school that registers at least 90% of eligible students to vote. Last year was the school’s third time achieving the award.

MOUNT CARROLL, ILLINOIS (September 19, 2022) — Timber Lake Playhouse, the premier professional summer theatre of northwest Illinois, will host a Fall Festival featuring BrewFest on Saturday, September 24, 12-6PM. The fest will include tastings of craft beers and wines, food, hay rides, and activities for the whole family. BrewFest features the popular craft beers of Lena Brewery and other local breweries.

STORM LAKE, IOWA (September 19, 2022) — Buena Vista University congratulates more than 125 students who were named to the Summer 2022 Dean's List. The Dean's List recognizes full-time students achieving a 3.5 grade-point average or higher for the semester. The following local students were named to BVU's Dean's List:

Christina Fox, of Davenport,IA, IA

Brandi McCormick, of Davenport, IA

Alyssa Schindler, of Le Claire, IA

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