Diamond Vogel and Keep Iowa Beautiful announced the grant awards for the 2020 Paint Iowa Beautiful program. The program provides free paint to a wide variety of public service projects throughout Iowa.

At this time, we're all concentrating on our physical health. We might even be worried about our mental health. We will be away from our church families for a time, but we can still stay in touch.

 The Benton County Extension Office along with the members of Benton County 4-H would like to take this opportunity to thank all the adult and youth volunteers that work so hard all year to make the 4-H program possible.

Chad Brown has agreed to share with you bits about Iowans who have made history! These will be a bit of pleasure reading, and enjoyable to read. Feel free to add any comments below or bits of history on the people that you see, we can never learn enough about the people that have gone before us! These aren't meant to be all inclusive bios, but just some light reading with a bit of educational value! Welcome Chad!---Iowa produced one president: Herbert Hoover.

By Samantha WaltonThe North Eden Willing Workers February meeting was called to order on February 16th at 5:14PM. There were 15 members present for the meeting.

Indian Hills Community College has released the names of the students who were on the college’s academic Honor Roll for the 2019-20 Winter Term.  To be included on the Honor Roll an IHCC student must be enrolled fulltime and have a grade point average for the term of 3.

The deadline to submit grant applications to the Benton County Community Foundation for its 2020 grant cycle is 11:59 p.m. March 15, 2020. Grants are awarded to projects in the following areas: art and culture, community betterment, education, environment, health, historic preservation and human service.

The following area students are ranked among the top 2 percent of students in their college at Iowa State University.Atkins,  Laura Maschino

The student(s) listed below graduated from Mount Mercy University in February 2020. A commencement ceremony will be held May 17, 2020, at the U.S.

Valerie Newhouse, President of Iowa Lakes Community College, has released the fall honors list of full-time students who have demonstrated academic excellence by earning at least a grade point average of 3.