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A view of the lock at lock and dam 2 showing the Hastings bridge in the distance.

Lock and Dam 2 installs four new tainter valves

Lock and Dam 2 between Lower Grey Cloud Island and Hastings on the Mississippi will soon four new tainter valves, replacing ones first installed in the 1940s. The new steel valves began the design …

Park High Theater brings comedy and mystery to the stage with Alibis

Looking for a good theater show? You might try Alibis, put on by Park High Theater Nov. 6 through the 8th. Park High Theater will bring a murder mystery told through a collection of wildly different …
Derrick Lee Pfeffer booking photo

Longtime Hastings sports figure charged with 13 felonies

Derrick Lee Pfeffer, a former Hastings athlete with decades of connections to the local baseball community, is facing 13 felony charges in Washington County involving allegations of sexual conduct …

Hastings police, county sheriff and state senator focus on e-bike safety

Hastings police, county sheriff and state senator focus on e-bike safety By Bruce Karnick and Nicole DePalma Electric bikes and other electric-powered transportation devices have become a familiar …
Prescott sisters Claire and Layla Salay hit the driving range at Troy Burne days before heading to State.

Prescott adding another chapter to historic girls golf program

You cannot write the history of WIAA girls golf without Prescott, and the history book is adding another chapter this year, as the team won the Stevens Point Sectional to make a triumphant return to …

Shots From the Hip: Girls golf has another outstanding season

If the Prescott girls golf team was looking for three seniors to carry the Cardinals through a wild WIAA Division 1 regional, Macy Reiter, Layla Salay and Lily Vesperman were happy to oblige. Reiter …

Work begins on installing new playground equipment

After recently removing the old playground equipment, Owen Public Works has begun work on the footings for the new playground equipment in Mill Pond Park, soon to be Prevail Park. 
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Self-Employed and Can’t Get a Mortgage? The Loan Type May Be the Problem

Many self-employed borrowers who are told they do not qualify for a mortgage are not actually unqualified. They are applying through a loan type that measures income in a way that works against them. …

Massachusetts Appraisal Rules Change in November. Buyers Who Wait to Prepare Will Lose Deals.

Most Massachusetts homebuyers will not think about new appraisal rules until those rules delay their closing. By then, according to Colleen Barry of Gibson Sotheby’s International Realty, the …

A Seller’s Strongest Negotiating Position in Fairfield County, CT Starts Before the First Showing

The Fairfield County, Connecticut housing market heading into fall 2026 doesn’t fit neatly into a single headline. Some homes are drawing multiple offers above asking. Others, in the same county …

Mortgage-Dependent Buyers Are Being Squeezed Out of the Florida Keys

There is a growing divide in the Florida Keys housing market, and it runs along a single fault line: whether a buyer needs a mortgage. Cash buyers – many of them retirees and business owners from …

Housing Is the Largest Asset Most Americans Own. It’s Also the Only One They Don’t Diversify.

Stock portfolios get diversified. Bond holdings get diversified. Even alternative investments get spread across categories and geographies. But the single largest asset on most American household …

Columbus, Ohio Has 2.23 Million Residents and Barely 6,000 Homes for Sale

A metropolitan area of 2.23 million people should have a deeper housing market than what Columbus, Ohio is showing right now. According to Central Ohio MLS data cited by Barbara Gale of the Gale …