Adel News

The sky was gray, but there was no shortage of color in Waukee on Saturday. The entries in the city's annual Independence Day parade gleamed red, white and blue.

Saturday and Sunday, Living History Farms, 2600 111th St., Urbandale Enjoy an old-fashioned Fourth with a historic Independence Day celebration in the town of Walnut Hill with pie-eating contests, foot races, spelling bees, watermelon seed-spitting contests and more.

BASEBALL Valley 15, Roosevelt 6 Valley's Taylor Nelson went 2-for-4 with an inside-the-park home run and Brendon Fifer hit a two-run home run.

I just read "That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles" and wanted to compliment Joel Warner on such a well-written piece.

A faulty communications line kept Adel's severe-weather sirens from activating earlier this month when tornadoes were reported in the area, an investigation has concluded.

2505 S.E. Delaware Ave., May 31 - A 31-year-old Des Moines man was charged with third-degree criminal mischief at Menards.

The Creative Kid's Zone will feature 24 activities, among them dance lessons, jewelry, sidewalk chalk art, paper masks and more.

A powerful line of thunderstorms pushed through the Des Moines metro area Sunday evening.

National Weather Service meteorologists confirmed Monday that an EF0 tornado with peak winds of 75 mph traveled through Dallas County Sunday night.

The National Weather Service is sending survey crews across Iowa to determine damage after storms dumped heavy rain, hail and spawned tornadoes.

A tornado warning is in effect for central Polk County until 7:15 p.m. The tornado was near Waukee at about 6:38 p.m. The tornado is rain-wrapped and the rain may obscure the tornado, according to the National Weather Service.

Prairieview School student Kyle Schmidt usually rides with his sister to school, but last week he and about 150 students peddled to school instead.

Boys matches Adel ADM 4, Perry 3 Adel - Dillon Lockhart scored a pair of goals and had an assist for Adel ADM, which wrapped up its first Raccoon River Conference title with the win.

Waukee toddlers were in the company of Darth Vader, Batman, Fancy Nancy and Dora the Explorer during the library's character costume party on Thursday.

Iowa's political leaders are pretty much clueless when it comes to transportation planning.

The Waukee library's Teen Advisory Board made plans on Monday to beef up the facility's teen programing.

Even at 7:45 a.m., Jim Trier comes across as an unusually cheerful teenager. Make that, especially at 7:45 a.m. The 14-year-old freshman at Adel DeSoto Minburn High School laughs and giggles his way through an hour-long before-school physical therapy session with Dr.

Alex Juergens and his wife, Angie, of Norwalk wanted to put a little green into their new home.

Technology Transforming Sunday Worship The traditional Sunday morning used to revolve around formal attire and hymns.

The Rev. Tom DeCarlo has his pick of fish fries to attend during Lent, but he chose to attend St.