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HomeGrown restaurant opens in Crescent building
HomeGrown, a Wichita, Kan.-based breakfast and lunch eatery, opened Monday in the Crescent Building, owned by the Krause Group, parent company of Krause+.
HomeGrown is the second tenant to open in the building, located at …
Read MoreValent BioSciences announces the acquisition of FBSciences
Valent BioSciences and Sumitomo Chemical have acquired FBSciences Holdings, a provider of naturally derived plant, soil and climate health products. The acquisition will expand Valent BioSciences’ presence in the global biostimulant market and offer a …
Read MoreDMACC hires academic dean of business and IT for Ankeny campus
Des Moines Area Community College announced that Anne Power has been hired as a new academic dean of business and information technology at the college’s Ankeny campus. Power comes to DMACC from Wayne …
Read MoreIowa Department of Education seeks local sponsors for summer food program
The Iowa Department of Education announced today it is looking for local sponsors to serve as sites where low-income children can receive nutritious meals or snacks during the summer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer …
Read MoreCatch Des Moines releases hype video as it prepares for banner sports year
This year is shaping up to be a “banner year” for sports in Central Iowa, with the return of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, RAGBRAI, the anticipated visit by the Savannah Bananas and the return …
Read MoreOn the Move: Week of January 27
Benjamin Wellendorf
F&G
Promoted to key accounts specialist I
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Shawna Shivers
F&G
Promoted to key accounts specialist I
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Troy Boelman
American Bank & Trust
Hired as senior vice president, Des Moines market president…
How can $96 million affect innovation, access to funding in Iowa?
Meet Linzi Murray, owner of Reading in Public Bookstore + Cafe
Shooting at nonprofit leaves two students dead, activist in serious condition
Two students died in a shooting at a Des Moines nonprofit Monday afternoon, and local activist and rapper William Holmes, known more commonly as Will Keeps, is hospitalized in serious condition. The nonprofit Starts Right Here, …
Read More‘What’s within you is stronger than what’s in your way’
I have never met Erik Weihenmayer, but even as a perfect stranger he has already helped me to break through barriers in my own thinking.
It all started when Jay Byers, the CEO of the …
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