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3 days ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Elizabeth Kelsey
EAST DUBUQUE, Ill. — The operators of an East Dubuque pool announced plans to open the facility next week after community donations led officials to reverse course on plans to keep it closed. Dunleith Aquatic Center, 221 Parklane Drive, aims to open Monday, June 9, according to Dunleith Park District Board President Tony Lutgen. In early May, park district officials announced that the pool would not open this summer due to ongoing financial constraints and resource limitations.
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4 days ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Elizabeth Kelsey
While federal poverty rates continue to decline locally, much work still remains to be done to address poverty in the Dubuque area, according to city officials. At a City Council work session Monday, representatives from the Office of Shared Prosperity and Neighborhood Support provided an update on the city’s Equitable Poverty Reduction and Prevention Plan.
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6 days ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Elizabeth Kelsey
Olivia Gennings started her career at Dubuque Senior High School feeling like an outsider. “I just couldn’t find my people,” recalled Olivia, 17. “Every place I went, I felt like I wasn’t good enough.”But by pursuing her passion for performance and getting involved in activities such as theatre, choir and dance at Senior, Olivia feels she gained confidence and a greater understanding of herself. “I definitely learned that not everyone’s going to like you, and that’s OK,” she said.
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6 days ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Elizabeth Kelsey
Across the tri-state area, residents are readying their rainbow flags. Today marks the first day of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, which takes place in June each year.
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1 week ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Elizabeth Kelsey
When Jim Collins became president of Loras College in 2004, he was the fourth president the school had seen in four years. Today, when Collins retires from Loras, he will do so as the longest-serving president in the college's 185-year history.
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1 week ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Elizabeth Kelsey
As St. Columbkille Elementary School students wound their way in a long line through the halls of their renovated and expanded Dubuque school Thursday, a chorus of oohs, ahs and gasps could be heard. “This is going to be your classroom next year,” school associate Abbey Drolema told a group of first-grade students. “What do you think?”Theo Beaves, 7, whistled in approval. “It’s so much cooler than last year,” he said.
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1 week ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Elizabeth Kelsey
EAST DUBUQUE, Ill. — Victoria Wall remembers a time when she wouldn’t have believed that she is graduating tonight from East Dubuque High School. “When I was 9 or 10, I never imagined myself getting a job or getting a (driver’s) license, and I didn’t really think about graduating when I was older,” said Wall, 18. “It’s been a journey.
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1 week ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Elizabeth Kelsey
Under a cloudy sky Wednesday, a colorful message written in chalk on the bricks of a Dubuque elementary school building stood out boldly. "We are Hoover," read the temporary mural, which included drawings of hearts, flowers and hornets - the Hoover Elementary School mascot.
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1 week ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Elizabeth Kelsey
As a group of about 40 people stood on the edge of the 16th Street Detention Basin in downtown Dubuque, the sounds of jackhammering could be heard while construction vehicles moved busily on the other side of the basin. Crews were already hard at work on the project whose kickoff the crowd had come to celebrate: a gate and pumping station project as part of the larger Bee Branch Watershed Flood Mitigation Project.
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1 week ago | 
telegraphherald.com | Elizabeth Kelsey
A planned children’s garden and pocket neighborhood in Dubuque both will benefit from grant funding provided by the nonprofit license holder for Dubuque’s casinos. Board members of the DRA voted unanimously to approve the funding for The Wanderwood Gardens, and Dubuque and Jackson Counties Habitat for Humanity during their monthly meeting Tuesday at Q Casino.
