Six Bettendorf Middle School students are among 98 Iowa students who earned top honors in the National History Day in Iowa Contest and will compete in the national contest in June. The 98 students emerged from a total of 500 competitors in last week’s state contest at the Iowa Event Center in Des Moines. In […]
Nicolina Pappas of Rock Island has certainly come out of her shell. The industrious 12-year-old, who’s a 7th grader at Bettendorf Middle School, has been busy the past few months criss-crossing the QC and nabbing proclamations from several cities in her quest to reduce the use of single-use plastic straws as well as other plastic […]