
April 17, 2025
Kohen Dietzenbach stepped out of his older brother’s shadow and had his moment in the spotlight. Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye After watching his older brother, Notre Dame High Scho...

April 9, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye/ Ryan Walrath - Photo Credit J Davis pondered long and hard about where he wanted to continue his wrestling career in college. Davis wasn’t takin...

April 9, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Photo Credit Cornell College MOUNT VERNON —Former West Burlington-Notre Dame high school softball standout Elise Oleson is on a roll. Oleson, a so...

April 4, 2025
Paul Lewis Welch, 81, of Burlington, Iowa, formerly of Toledo, Ohio, died Monday, March 17, 2025, at Genesis East Medical Center in Davenport, Iowa. Born August 8, 1943, in T...

April 3, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Submitted photos Cody Gabella is right where he wants to be in life. The 2010 Notre Dame High School graduate is married and has two sons. They li...

March 27, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Photos courtesy of the NJCAA Megan Harrell knew the end was near. Although her mind told her to keep playing the game she has loved since she was o...

March 24, 2025
Michael Eugene Hoschek, 79, of Burlington, died Sunday, March 9, 2025, at the Southeast Iowa Regional Hospice House in West Burlington. Mike was a fighter and battled hard again...

March 24, 2025
On March 8, 2025, Irene Elizabeth Hemerling (née Dansdill) peacefully joined her parents R.P. and Henrietta Dansdill, husband Tom Hemerling, sister Rita, and the Lord. Born in B...

March 6, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Photo Credit - John Gaines Photography Gabby Deery thought her days of playing volleyball in her hometown were over. That is until the 2023 Notre Da...

March 6, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Photo credits -John Gaines Photography Katy Stephens admittedly wasn’t feeling the greatest this past weekend. The University of Northern Iowa jun...

March 3, 2025
Michael Steven Zoeller, 68, of DeKalb, Illinois, died Feb. 1, 2025, of cardiac arrest. He was born March 4, 1956, in Arkansas City, Kansas, the son of Francis and Clara Zoeller o...

February 26, 2025
Matt Levins - MVP The Hawk Eye DES MOINES — Behind every good man stands a woman. Or so the old saying goes. Standing behind the state champion Notre Dame-West Burlington/Danvi...

February 26, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye / Photo Credit- Drayke Brenneman DONNELLSON -- Shay Stephens scored 17 points and the 10th-ranked Notre Dame High School boys basketball team overcame ...

February 25, 2025
Matt Levins The Hawk Eye / Rayn Walrath Photo Credit DES MOINES — Kaiden Dietzenbach has a flare for the dramatic. With time running out in the final match of his high school ca...

February 25, 2025
Matt Levins The Hawk Eye / Ryan Walrath Photo credit DES MOINES — CJ Davis was destined to do great things from a very young age. Davis used to tell his preschool teacher at Sun...

February 25, 2025
Matt Levins- The Hawk Eye / Photo Credit Ryan Walrath DES MOINES — CJ Davis and Kaiden Dietzenbach had been the leaders of the Notre Dame-West Burlington/Danville boys wrestling ...

February 18, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye Notre Dame-West Burlington/Danville high school wrestling coach Bill Plein has seen and done a lot of things in his Hall of Fame career. When the stat...

February 18, 2025
Annette Pollpeter Obituary Annette Mildred Pollpeter, 85, died Friday, February 14, 2025, at her home in Burlington, Iowa. Born April 10, 1939, in Fort Madison, Iowa, she was ...

February 18, 2025
Matt Levins - The Hawk Eye Three years ago, the Notre Dame-West Burlington/Danville high school boys wrestling team hoisted the Class 2A team championship at Wells Fargo Arena. ...

February 18, 2025
Robert Mansheim Obituary Robert William Mansheim, 93, of Burlington, died Friday, February 14, 2025, at his home in Burlington. Born February 12, 1932, in Fort Madison, IA, he...
