Ankeny News Archives

“The water used to be pretty and clear, and now it has a dirty look to it”

Armed with orange "Keep Iowa Beautiful" trash bags, Ankeny residents collected plastic bags, golf balls, aluminum cans and other garbage in a local stream to help clean up their water supply. via Http

Our buses give new meaning to the term DART. - East Village guy To the city of Des Moines: Thank you for the 1,200 pounds of free sand. via Indianola Record-Herald

“They've posted it for the world to see”

By GUNNAR OLSON * REGISTER STAFF WRITER * April 26, 2008 Two Ankeny boys fight on a couch as the online video starts. via Http

“It's ridiculous. Why try to cancel something that's about bullying?”

By TOM BARTON * REGISTER STAFF WRITER * April 24, 2008 Friday is Day of Silence, a nationwide event where middle school, high school and college students draw attention to the harassment experienced by lesbian, ... via Http

REGISTER STAFF REPORTS Posted at 08:20 on 04/24/2008 A Wal-Mart associate was arrested Wednesday night on a charge of second-degree theft for allegedly pilfering a cash register on a regular basis. via Indianola Record-Herald

“She's very fun-loving, high-spirited.”

Buddy is a sleeping beauty: Reddish brown, he's usually asleep on his back, snoring loudly with his large tongue lolling out. via Beep!

“By building an emphasis, not only on contrast and color but also bold, distinctive brushstrokes and multiple layers, it is possible to provide a different perception with each work”

Mary Rork-Watson * Reader Submitted * April 16, 2008 Ankeny Art Center presents the works of two emerging Iowa artists in May. via Http

Buddy is this year's "Beautiful Bulldog." The 3-year-old from Ankeny beat out 50 other canines at Monday's annual bulldog beauty contest, held in Des Moines as part of events leading up to the Drake Relays. via WHO-TV Des Moines

Kathleen Greenwood of Polk City was named to the dean's list at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids. via Des Moines Register

Four men - two of them from Iowa - will try to impress the City Council as it makes a second go-round in its city manager search. via The Gazette

“I knew the qualities of the other guys, and I asked them anyway”

Vince Yinger likes to joke that when he was putting together a barbershop quartet more than a decade ago, he scraped the bottom of the barrel before he came up with three other singers to join him. via Http

“We kind of think somebody's mad at us down here.”

By GRANT SCHULTE REGISTER STAFF WRITER Posted at 04:05 on 04/12/2008 Ankeny unveils emergency plan Ankeny city officials and volunteers on Friday presented the public with the city's plan to help residents ... via Indianola Record-Herald

“Not only the prom, but the limo on top of it -- just overly excited to say the least”

Saturday night was a special evening for a group of Ankeny students celebrating prom. via KFSM-TV Fort Smith

“I have a great affection for Hispanics because they're such warm individuals who are committed to family and generous in relationships”

By GUNNAR OLSON * REGISTER STAFF WRITER * April 11, 2008 Richard Pates, an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of St. via Http

The CIETC trial contines in Davenport with more testimony about an affair between the former CEO of the job-training agency and a former board member. via KCRG-TV Cedar Rapids

“We'd like to have (the support of) our own senator so the community understands the need”

Several Ankeny residents spoke at Monday's school board meeting to encourage district officials to create a two-high- school landscape as soon as possible after recent discussions have included 2011, 2013, 2014 ... via Des Moines Register

“It's a great tool to bring to the table”

By GUNNAR OLSON * REGISTER STAFF WRITER * April 8, 2008 Not all of the money coming into Ankeny's Prairie Trail civic trust fund - expected to reach $25 million - has been spoken for. via Http

“The pilot became spatially disoriented and as a result failed to maintain control of the airplane.”

By NIGEL DUARA * Register Staff Writer * April 2, 2008 The pilot of an airplane that crashed in an Indiana cornfield while carrying four employees of a Des Moines marketing company in 2006 was tired, misread ... via Des Moines Register

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“Just showing a firearm at that time”

A week later, James William Spiers III still stops in mid-sentence to compose himself. via Indianola Record-Herald

“The tax increase is large and it hurts, but we are staging it in and we really could have gone much higher”

By TODD ERZEN * REGISTER STAFF WRITER * April 1, 2008 A proposed increase of $1.68 per $1,000 of taxable property for Ankeny school district taxpayers has received the backing of the Ankeny committee of the ... via Http