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Elk Run school

While the Cedar Valley sleeps, Sandy Jorgenson is wide awake, keeping watch on the sick, the injured and the lonely.

WATERLOO — Hawkeye Community College is hosting “Finish What You Started Week” Monday through Thursday for anyone who began working on a college degree but did not finish it.

WATERLOO — The Volunteer Center of Cedar Valley needs help with the following:

“The community is pretty upset about it. They don’t understand why (the county) would do this.”

Vets offered

CHARLES CITY | Even 50 years after a tornado decimated Charles City, images of the storm are still reminders of the destructive power of Mother Nature.

DIKE -- The idea for a 25-acre sports complex dedicated Saturday started with an off-the-cuff remark between friends getting their mail.

POSTVILLE -- May 12, 2008, started out as a regular school day for 13-year-old Pedro Lopez.

BRANDON -- One person has died and another injured in a house fire south of Brandon early Friday.