SIOUX CENTER—When 13-year-old Millie Brommer was given an assignment to write a letter to someone famous, she chose to write to award-winning author Daniel Nayeri, whose autobiographical novel, “Everything Sad
The Weekender chatted with Dordt University English professor and musician Luke Hawley about the new album by his band, The Ruralists," and their listening party at Sioux City s Vangarde Arts.
REGIONAL—Agustin Martinez was 4 years old when he came with his family to N’West Iowa from Aguascalientes, Mexico. A native Spanish speaker, he learned English when he started kindergarten.
ORANGE CITY—By June, the tulips in Orange City’s Windmill Park have dropped their petals and memories of Dutch street dances — a mainstay of the annual May Tulip Festival —