Even though the freshman-sophomore team only earned one tie game and no victories, Coach Stephen Grace said they played with “no fear.” The West Branch Football Awards night also recognized the FS ...

The “no” vote on Nov. 18 may be the last time the West Branch City Council denies tax rebates to Nordex. That is, if the wind turbine manufacturer meets its goal of hiring more than 100 people to its ...

• 6:30 p.m. MS Jazz Band Concert, WB Performing Arts Ctr • 7 p.m. 5/6 General Music 7/8 Choir/CJU45 Concert, WB Performing Arts Ctr • 3 p.m. Bowling: Boys/Girls JV/Varsity v Dubuque Hempstead at ...

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Other than a few years after Dean Gibson passed away in 2001, the Gibson trains served as one of the mainstays and biggest attractions of A Christmas Past since 1990. However, on Saturday, the Gibson ...

Should the school district ban cell phones from campus? Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, click here to access the E-Edition. To subscribe to the print ...

With a bunch of Santa hats and gobs of ugly Christmas sweaters, some 50 people ran laps at Cubby Park on Saturday for the first Snowball Sprint. With a seasonably warm 32 degrees in the air, the ...

If a church wants to carve a tree stump, naturally it might choose a cross, or a depiction of Jesus Christ. Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, click here to ...

Some 1,350 Alliant Energy customers in the West Branch area lost power for nearly two hours after an ice storm struck on Saturday. And fog and ice led to West Branch Community Schools to delay the ...

West Branch likes audiobooks, more and more. According to the West Branch Public Library annual report, patrons checked out 18,876 physical items and about 10,000 digital items. Of those digital items ...

“We are very excited to have August joining our Maverick family!” Head Women’s Coach Emilee Thiesse announced last week. Full text is available only to subscribers. If you are currently a subscriber, ...

The West Branch Times staff will take its annual holiday break after Christmas, so there will be no paper published on Jan. 2. We will resume publication with the Jan. 9 edition.