Organizers of the 10th anniversary Great Eastern Iowa Tractorcade said a record number of tractor owners brought their farm equipment to the joyride. The organizers said 509 tractors registered for this year's 50-mile trek from the Dubuque County Fairgrounds to Dyersville, Iowa, and back again, an increase from last year's record breaking 450 tractors, the Dubuque (Iowa) Telegraph Herald reported Wednesday. The parade, which began Monday and ends Wednesday, stretched for miles.

-- Laura Hawks, ASLA, has joined Durrant as a landscape architect. She has more than 20 years of landscape design and architecture experience. She is currently the vice president of the Landscape Architectural Examining Board.

By Brian Cooper Earlier this month, Google announced an exciting (and exhaustive) endeavor, and the Telegraph Herald is pleased to be part of it.The Internet giant plans to tap into the rich resource of newspaper archives, digitizing and posting online the microfilm of hundreds of U.S.

After a difficult year, Dubuque Community School Board members must feel like having the district placed "on watch" is the icing on the cake. But board members, parents and taxpayers shouldn't be overly dismayed by the federal designation based on No Child Left Behind achievement requirements.

NYCU Concerts, theater projects, an arts and antique show and a history project got the green light in the form of $35,000 in funding during the latest round of Dubuque City Arts and Culture Grants.