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Local news, sports and community information for northeast Iowa, particularly Black Hawk, Bremer and Buchanan counties.
- Three of the four races were won by Black candidates, meaning along with current Ward 4 councilor Jerome Amos, the council is majority Black for the first time in history, as well as being lead by a Black mayor.
- For the past 23 years, Tim Moses has been the men’s track and field head coach at Waterloo East, where coaches often don’t stay as long as the students. He’s been a rare rock of stability in one of the state’s more challenging coaching environments. buff.ly/2VBVXQi
- The Northern Iowa wrestling program has moved to a temporary off-campus training facility after their current home, the West Gym, was deemed unsafe. Head coach Doug Schwab says he won't fall victim to negativity.
- "UAW John Deere members struck at midnight October 14, after the company failed to present an agreement that met our members’ demands and needs." wcfcourier.com/business/uaw-s…
- Cedar Falls head coach Chris Ortner is the Mississippi Division coach of the year in the Mississippi Valley Conference.
- UAW Local 838 members were officially on strike at midnight across Waterloo John Deere facilities on Thursday after contract negotiations failed to meet the 11:59 p.m. deadline on Wednesday.
- A longtime state legislator has endorsed the top-polling Democratic candidate for president.
- The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's literacy program to be based at the Masonic Temple, initially serving Waterloo Schools' fourth- and fifth-graders with low test scores.
- Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is coming back to Iowa starting on Friday, visiting seven cities, including Waverly.
- Michael Jensen was found alive in a ditch at the intersection of San Marnan Drive and Hammond Avenue by this man, Larry Lehman with BDC Group. wcfcourier.com/news/local/mis…
- College Wrestling: UNI receives major gift toward new training facility
- Decorah's Dennis Olejniczak, at 1,365-535, ranks 2nd in wins among U.S. HS baseball coaches wcfcourier.com/sports/high-sc…
- Fifteen local barbers and hairdressers provided services for braiding, dreadlocks, retwisting of dreadlocks, silk presses and general haircuts.
