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Comet dance team earns Division II ratings

The West Liberty Ignite Dance Team competed at the 2025 Iowa State Dance and Drill Team Association’s State Championships in Des Moines last Friday. The team received Division II ratings …

Kids and cop shoppers score big for families

A total of 23 local families will have a better Christmas this year thanks to the West Liberty Police Department’s seventh annual “Shop with a Cop” event, held Wednesday, Dec. 4. …

94 percent pass first term classes

Ninety-four percent of West Liberty High School students passed all their classes for the first trimester. That’s up from 87 percent in the first trimester of the 2023-24 school year. …

Eastern Iowa Auction donates $20,000 to fairgrounds

Eastern Iowa Auction Company, owned and operated by Donovan and Sara Yoder, of Atalissa, have donated $20,000 to the Event Center at the Muscatine County Fair. The Yoders live on a farm north of …

New Three B's brings family floral business back to West Liberty

Working in the former Jan’s Flower Shop in West Liberty as a student at West Liberty High School, it didn’t take long for Charles Brooke to realize he was destined to get into the floral …
Latino culture

West Liberty teens pen top Latino poetry

On October 23rd, Muscatine Community College hosted a “Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home” event. This spoken-word event celebrated the power and …
Fairs

2024 Cedar County Fair special section

West Liberty Comet RVC South conference records

West liberty Basketball

Comeback Comets strike first

The West Liberty boys’ basketball team kicked off its opening week splitting its two matchups. Against Beckman Catholic in the season opener, the Comets mounted an 11-point comeback down …
West liberty wrestling

No easing into boys' wrestling season

Making their debuts for the 2024 high school wrestling season, West Liberty’s boys hit the mats last week in a conference quadrangular and at the Cliff Keen Invitational at Independence High …
Opinion
Guest column

Community kindness spreads joy in our town

He was shy and seemed a little unsure as he entered the bus for the shopping trip. He could have taken two snack items, but he selected only one. He had an amount of Christmas money given to him by …

Support Phil Wiese

Phil Wiese deserves our support to be our Iowa House Representative. Phil knows that public dollars (your taxes, right?) should support our public schools instead of subsidizing private schools which …
Letter to the editor

Teamsters endorse Kim Schneider for supervisor

This is Teamsters Local 238 endorsement letter for Muscatine County supervisor candidate Kim Schneider. The executive board of Teamsters Local 238 has endorsed you in your race for the Muscatine …
Obituaries
Obituary

Barbara Stratton

Barbara Elaine Stratton, age 81, of Leesburg Fla., formerly of West Liberty, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024, at Cornerstone Hospice in Leesburg. There will be no funeral …
Obituary

Dick Cornick

Dick Thomas Cornick, 96, passed away Friday, Nov. 29, 2024, at the Simpson Memorial Home in West Liberty. Funeral services will be held 11:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 6, at the United Methodist Church …
Obituary

Jeffrey Webb

Jeffrey Joseph Webb, 54, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024, in the arms of his father and daughters at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City. Jeff was born on July 11, …
Special section

As if no time had passed

By Ross Shinberg Regional Sports Editor West Liberty’s girls’ wrestlers are picking up right where they left off in 2023 — lots of wins and lots of pins. At the …

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