A northwest Iowa banker says there’s too much red tape in federal disaster recovery programs. “Disaster victims are in no position to complete that excessive paperwork,” Gus Barker, president and CEO of First Community Bank in Newell, said this afternoon during testimony at a U.S. Senate Small Business Committee hearing. Barker told senators about helping […]
Cedar Valley Nature Trail is now paved all the way
More than 30 bikers and residents recently came together to cut the ribbon on the completed paving of the final stretch