BURLINGTON – This Saturday will bring the fifth annual Brewfest, and organizer David Kroll said this is the largest event yet, featuring libations from over 20 breweries and distilleries, some of which are local to Burlington and southeast Iowa.

Fish and shrimp will be served 4:30-7 p.m. Friday, April 19 at the Fort Madison Eagles Club. For carryouts, call 319-372-6928.

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This is in reference to the letter to the editor from R, L. Diewold, published in the April 12 edition of The Daily Democrat.

I was pleased to learn an Australian company has received approval to sell cultivated quail meat in Singapore. For those who don’t know, cultivated meat is grown from animal cells, without sla…

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It’s been over a year now since a shooter made her way into a private Nashville school on Monday, March 27, 2023, and six victims lost their lives in an unthinkable tragedy.

I don’t know if your other senior readers will agree with us or not, but of the many benefits my wife and I have found in being senior citizens — merely taking an aspirin, ibuprofen, or Tyleno…

An adjudicated rapist, who was recently held liable by a jury for physically invading a woman’s bodily autonomy, has now taken it upon himself to opine about how government can control women’s…

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