City Notes: An outside perspective
By Mark Wicks, Community Development Director Charles City had some visitors in early May who shared some interesting insights in a recent report d...
03 October 2019
City Notes: An outside perspective
By Mark Wicks, Community Development Director Charles City had some visitors in early May who shared some interesting insights in a recent report d...
30 September 2019
Take a Walk on the Wildwood Side
By John Burbridge sports@charlescitypress.com Ever take a wrong turn and suddenly find yourself in the wrong neighborhood? I somewhat had that ex...
26 September 2019
GROB: Carson King reporter wrote the wrong article
By James Grob, jgrob@charlescitypress.com Social media giveth, and social media taketh away. Carson King said it himself. “Social media … has ...
18 September 2019
Letter to the Editor: Please thank wonderful planter volunteers
By Nancy Clarke, Planter Committee Chairwoman One of the special aspects of our community are the beautiful planters decorating our parking lots down...
12 September 2019
City Notes: Whipple – Take time now to plan and practice home fire escape
By Eric Whipple, Charles City Fire Chief National Fire Prevention week is right around the corner, Oct. 6-12, and I would like to stress just how imp...
11 September 2019
TERPSTRA – Hawkeyes may need to ‘scratch where it itches’ to pull one out in Ames
By Kelly Terpstra, kterpstra@charlescitypress.com Somewhere and somehow Paul Rhoads and Dan McCarney will take a gander at the television set come Sa...
05 September 2019
City Notes: Unsung heroes
By Mark Wicks, Community Development Director The summer of 2019 is officially in the books with the Labor Day weekend behind us. Before it fades ...
Letter to the Editor: Please don’t steal from Community Garden
By Patricia Petersen, Charles City My husband and I sold our acreage and moved into Charles City two years ago. Our small lawn doesn’t have much ro...
GROB: One fine day, we’ll see women as equal
By James Grob, jgrob@charlescitypress.com One of the people I follow on Twitter raised a question this week, and I was dumb enough to Tweet an answer...
29 August 2019
City Notes: Charles City Public Transit provides rides for many people, many places
By Tammy Elthon, Transit Provider I am Tammy Elthon. I am running daily operations of the Charles City Public Transit Service. Circle K Communication...
