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New Fareway store in works for LeClaire
LeClaire is a step closer to landing a new full-service grocery store.
Fareway Stores, a Boone, Iowa-based chain, appear ready to move into the former...
Free hams: ‘Phenomenal’ event helps area families
The free hams didn’t last long. Most were gone in an hour.
Hy-Vee workers joined by Davenport police officers and firefighters handed out 500 free...
Summit goal: Prepare St. Ambrose students for jobs of future
A group of more than 100 business and education leaders gathered Thursday, April 7, to tackle a massive goal: Help prepare students to take...
St. Ambrose names business college after VanBruwaene
A Quad Cities woman who had a “charge-any-mountain” spirit has given St. Ambrose University, in Davenport, the largest gift in school history.
The university, in...
2022 Bix 7 race will add new team competition
This summer’s seven-mile road race through Davenport will be returning stronger than ever, be a great family event for the community and feature a...
Augustana receives $40M gift – largest in school history
When Murry Gerber was a young man, he rode his bicycle 180 miles from his Chicago home to Augustana College, in Rock Island, because...
Mercado on Fifth boosts local minority-owned businesses with new grants
A food vendor will receive money to buy an electric griddle. A boxing academy will purchase new treadmills. And a business that sells balloon...