The Bloomfield Democrat

In many respects, this hasn’t been a great year in Davis County and with the weather hampering the harvest, it hasn’t gotten a lot better lately either.
Let’s just forget all of that stuff for a couple of hours Friday night. Let’s band together in a show of community and school spirit and pride. Let’s overflow [...]

If you’ve been following the debate on this site about the new high school building, you have found there are people who say: “We shouldn’t build a new high school.”
Change the subject and there will be people who would say, “We shouldn’t finish the hospital.” There are people who also say, “We shouldn’t do streetscape [...]

If you listen to what some people say or read what they write, they seem to consider the school board as some sort of far off enemy or worse.

Davis County needs ideas as to how to increase the number of businesses of any kind and the jobs available. Give us your ideas by submitting a comment to this blog.

By Gary Spurgeon
Publisher

A comment added to the story on our online front page about the closing of American Welding and Tank wonders why we reported a few weeks ago that the plant and others in Bloomfield did not have employees laid off.
The commenter says there were people laid off at the time.
We reported there were [...]

By Gary Spurgeon
Publisher 

In covering the Davis County-Pella Christian Regional Tournament girls’ basketball game, I got my first look in several years at Evans Junior High Gym in Ottumwa.
The gym was once the indoor athletic envy of southeast Iowa. It’s showing its age, probably about 50 years. There have been a lot of basketball games, wrestling [...]

Those of us in the newspaper business don’t think or talk a lot about having our product stolen nor do we worry about it a lot. In more than 40 years of going to newspaper conventions and seminars, I don’t think I’ve ever been involved in a conversation that concerned shoplifting or petty theft losses.

Welcome to our first attempt at a blog. Hopefully, it will get better as time goes by and the subjects will be interesting to at least a few.