Paramedic, firefighter and law enforcement officer, Coletta Matson is the newest member of the Cascade Police Department. Matson grew up on a 20-acre farm in Missouri Valley and entered the field of medicine as a paramedic at Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison. Matson said she neve…

Second-grade students got a special history lesson on a field trip to the Tri-County Historical Society May 18. The 40 students in two classes at Cascade Elementary were brought by their teachers, Rachel Brindle and Melissa Roller.

Ava Noonan started working in beef shows at 4 years old with bucket-bottle calves and was working with big heifers by the time she was 5. Now a Junior at Cascade High School, Noonan continues her year-round devotion to the sport of showing beef cattle and has no intentions of stopping.

"I just really like to help people," beamed Melissa McLees, a licensed massage therapist serving clients at Just Teasin' Salon and Spa in Farley. McLees graduated from Carlson College of Massage Therapy and launched Creative Touch Massage and Wellness in 2021, reinventing herself after a challenging period of life.

The Butcher Block will soon be open as Cascade’s hometown meat locker, processing everything from beef to hogs, deer, sheep and goats. This new business is run by the Vaske family, who has been processing their own meat since the father, Randy Vaske, was 18 years old.

Reading, prizes and foamy fun will return when the Cascade Public Library launches its annual summer reading program Wednesday, June 7.

Local seed-starting, floral and craft business Our Little Greenhouse had a major expansion with the completion of a greenhouse and held an open house, May 12-13. Lindsay Staner first opened the business in the fall of 2021.

The Bernard Commercial Club has begun renovating Commercial Club Park and replacing the playground equipment with new, safer structures.

Following a career spanning 45 years, first-grade teacher Anita Gleason is retiring from her position at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Elementary in Dyersville.

Accura HealthCare of Cascade held a senior prom court to celebrate its residents on Mother’s Day, May 14, as a kickoff to National Skilled Nursing Week. The event was created by Accura’s Activities Director Angie Link who said the prom court was a great way to bring the residents together as…

“Everybody’s watching and waiting for it to fall, “said Mike Conter of the leaning 100-year-old corn crib on the family’s century farm about four miles south of Peosta. “A lot of my neighbors said, ‘oh my gosh, oh my gosh, it’s going.’”

A new all-ages game will be ready for the public by the end of May thanks to Girl Scout Troop 2885’s erecting a nine-square court in the New City Park for their Bronze Award project.

The Franciscan Sisters with the Tri-State Coalition Against Human Trafficking & Slavery presented a public education event on human trafficking at the Cascade Public Library May 4. The two religious sisters, Sr. Mary Lechtenberg and Sr. Janet May, previously taught in Cascade schools; Ma…

Cascade Elementary and local law enforcement have been hard at work promoting safety at the crosswalk on 1st Avenue and Tyler Street. According to principal Dan Wendler, this is in the wake of two near misses in recent months.

Master Gardner Bill McCarthy received the Outstanding Volunteer in Urban Forestry award, from the Iowa Urban Tree Council, during the 32nd Annual Urban Forestry Awards Ceremony on April 12 at the FFA Enrichment Center in Ankeny.

Cornerstone Church celebrated its 10th anniversary since its founding in Cascade on April 30. The celebration was marked by a special service preached by Cornerstones’ founding pastor, Phil Parsons, as well as a social lunch and slideshow afterward.