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Fairfield Pizza Ranch Closes After Nearly Eight Years Under Current Ownership
The Pizza Ranch in Fairfield has closed, the restaurant announced on social media this week. The owners said the closure happened last month due to unexpected circumstances that left the restaurant with only one manager. Pizza Ranch has operated in Fairfield for more than eight years, with the current ownership group having run the location for approximately eight of those years since 2019.
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UAW workers express concern over leadership’s handling of John Deere Ottumwa plant closure
OTTUMWA, Iowa — A group of United Auto Workers union members employed at the John Deere Ottumwa Works facility that is set to close are speaking out, expressing growing concern about how international leadership is handling the current situation. John Deere announced the closure of the Ottumwa facility and...
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JW’s Foods owners seek buyer as they plan next chapter
KALONA, Iowa — JW’s Foods, Kalona’s only full-service grocery store, is looking for a buyer as its owners prepare to pursue ministry. The store has been in the family since 1973. The current co-owners, Curt and Dawn Wyse, bought it in 2009 from Dawn's parents. They have been looking for someone to take over for about four years, initially by word of mouth. After sharing the search more widely, Curt said several people have reached out, though it is too early to know how serious those inquiries are.
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Google data center near Palo would use 10.4M gallons of water per day
PALO — Google’s proposed data center campus near Palo could use up to 10.4 million gallons of water each day, drawn directly from the Cedar River. That figure — what it takes to fill 16 Olympic-sized swimming pools — is outlined in a water use memo Google sent to Palo as part of the company’s exploration into a roughly 550-acre site near the Duane Arnold Energy Center. It’s estimated the withdrawal would amount to roughly 0.3% of the Cedar River’s total annual flow. Those projections are for the facility at full scale, but construction of the site will be phased. That means initial water use demands would be smaller and grow over time. Google has stated the site could hold up to six buildings, with one building per phase. Based on those figures, Google technical program manager Kiran Udayakumar last month told Palo residents the Cedar River could safely handle that withdrawal under normal, dry and drought conditions without adverse impacts. “At every Google site, we conduct a rigorous, multifactor watershed health assessment,” he said. “That assessment confirmed that the (Cedar River) basin has healthy, long-term capacity and low overall physical water scarcity.” The proposed data center campus near Palo
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John Deere officials announced Friday the company will be hiring 400 new workers across its factories
John Deere officials announced Friday the company will be hiring 400 new workers across its factories. In addition, more than 275 employees will be called back to its Waterloo operations, bringing total callbacks to approximately 1,000 since 2024. Deere officials said with these callbacks, all employees previously on layoff in Waterloo, the Quad Cities, Ottumwa, and Dubuque have been asked to return to work. However, about 125 employees remain on layoff status in the Des Moines area. Deere officials said in a news release that hiring would take place at facilities in Moline, Milan, Davenport, Dubuque, and Ottumwa.