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A small-batch miso maker in Cedar Falls is crafting Japanese ingredients from Iowa farms (opens the original)
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When Tomie Sasaki-Hesselink moved to Cedar Falls from Japan nearly 25 years ago, she was amazed to see fields upon fields of soybeans. The crop is a staple of Japanese cooking, integrated into daily life. They appeared in the textbook Sasaki-Hesselink was using to teach her children Japanese. “We read about soybeans. How we enjoy soybeans in Japan, and how they produce miso, soy sauce, natto, tofu, so many things,” Sasaki-Hesselink recalled. “And then I learned that the Japanese buy a lot of soy
An endangered salamander faded from its historic habitat. A Cedar Valley effort aims to bring it back (opens the original)
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Before Black Hawk County purchased the land for a park in 1976, the Hartman Reserve Nature Center in Cedar Falls was a YMCA camp. Back then, it was crawling with blue-spotted salamanders. “There were salamanders all over. There used to be a swimming pool at the top of the parking lot, and they would find blue-spotted salamanders by the pool and in the shower houses,” said Nature Center Manager Amy Davison. But the creatures have disappeared from the reserve. Davison said development pressure and
This reissued short story collection captures Iowa life 100 years ago (opens the original)
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Cherie Dargan first encountered the work of Iowa author Ruth Suckow while bumping along a country road in the state’s northeast. She had accepted an invitation from her husband to attend the annual meeting of the Ruth Suckow Memorial Association in the tiny town of Earlville, and the organization’s president, Barbara Lounsberry, offered the couple a ride. “So, imagine, I am speeding along in the back of Barbara’s van, reading these short stories, and I fell in love. I thought, ‘This is the Iowa
Tap water study finds nitrate levels can vary widely across neighborhoods — even in the same city (opens the original)
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An independent study of five Cedar Valley cities found nitrate levels in drinking water can vary widely across neighborhoods, even in the same municipality. Cedar Falls-based environmental scientist Kamyar Enshayan conducted the study between February and June this year, delivering samples from 41 taps located in homes and businesses in Waverly, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Hudson and Cedar Rapids to the University of Iowa for analysis. No samples exceeded 10 milligrams per liter (mg/L), the maximum l
A historic preservation grant offers Dubuque's signature park a chance at new life (opens the original)
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Dubuque has a $750,000 opportunity with the Wisconsin-based Jeffris Family Foundation to revive a centerpiece of its park system. The foundation selected Dubuque for one of its Capital Campaign Challenge Grants, the city announced on Tuesday. The grant would restore structures in Eagle Point Park, which encompasses 164 acres of varied bluff terrain above the Mississippi River, north of the city’s downtown. Rob McDonald grew up in Dubuque and described Eagle Point as the “king” of the city’s park
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