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Nearly thirty local non-profits recently received grants from the Foundation for the Future of Delaware County. Over $110,000 in grants have been give

Iowa’s oldest and largest bluegrass festival is in Strawberry Point Paula Reece © Special to the Register The 40th Annual Backbone Bluegrass Festival will be held July 23-25 at Backbone State Park (Iowa’s oldest state park) in Strawberry Point. If you close your eyes and listen closely (maybe with a favorite bluegrass tune playing in your head), you may be able to hear the mandolins, banjos and fiddles warming up all around the state — and country! — for the 40th An...