By Buddy Jackson It is that time of year for all things that go bump in the night to reveal their hideous evil throughout Des Moines and Ankeny. The places to be are The Ankeny Haunted Barn and Sleepy Hollow’s Haunted Scream Park in Des Moines. The Ankeny Haunted BarnRead More

By Megan Miras Dean of Arts and Sciences Jim Stick never thought he would be at a community college, but he is glad he is. Stick went to school in Northeast Iowa. He graduated from the University of Iowa. He lived in Iowa City for 10-11 years.  Next, he movedRead More

By Mike Kelsey The government shut down has begun and Obamacare has officially started. It is one of the biggest bills to be passed in the last decade. The bill has created an abundance of ruckus over the last four years. This has helped create a federal government shut downRead More

By Megan Miras. Two DMACC grounds men employees were injured Friday, Sept. 27 due to a boom truck tipping over. “One guy had a pretty bummed up lip” grounds employee and DMACC student Justin Free, 19, from Glitten said. “The other guy had a hurt shoulder [because] he was pinnedRead More

By Ann Voight As the saying goes, one should never judge a book by its cover.  However a shiny new cover certainly doesn’t hurt, and with the DMACC book sale, there should be plenty of new books to go around. On 10/8 and 10/9, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.,Read More

By Megan Miras.  Hatch is a room set aside in the Kirkendall Public Library in Ankeny full of twenty-first century software and equipment to educate the public about technology used to communicate and design.  The official ribbon cutting was Monday, Sept. 16. It has since been open to the publicRead More

Voters approved two levies that will generate an estimated $112 million dollars between 2016 and 2025. Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, voters passed both a 20¼ Mill Levy and a Six Cent Levy that will bring remodels and additions to all DMACC campuses. These levies help keep tuition the second lowestRead More

By Alex Roth. The Prairie Trail Hy-Vee located at 2510 SW State Street, less than a four-minute drive from DMACC Ankeny campus, opened on Sept. 24, 2013. Store Director Kevin Hudachek shared his excitement about the opening of the new Hy-Vee. After seven months of building, the enormous 92,000 squareRead More