Bridgette Exman News Today

Mason City broke ground on the new Riverhawk Trail, part of the Prairie Rock Trail system featuring the Prairie Rock Bike Park on North Elm Drive.

Construction should be finished in August.

Singletrack will also allow for a loop near the river and will serve as the closest trail to several neighborhoods on the east side of Mason City.

From "Harriet the Spy" to "Little Red Riding Hood," these books have all fallen afoul of censors

The Cerro Gordo County Community Foundation held its 2023 grant awards celebration at Mason City High School’s FEMA Room on Oct. 11 announcing the distribution of $144,469 to 14 organizations

Grants going to 14 local organizations.

Readers react to a guest essay by a school official. Also: Nancy Pelosi; censorship by China; A.I.-generated college essays; easing anxiety.

Lillian Brierly just had a big birthday; she turned 5 on Monday.

Buzz Bissinger, "Friday Night Lights" author, was outraged after a school banned his book. So he joined forces with a school official to fight ban.

A school administrator in charge of complying with Iowa’s book ban argues in The New York Times that using ChatGPT has kept more books on the shelves than other school districts. Bridgette Exman, the administrator, told The Verge in August that using ChatGPT was a way to show “a good faith effort” to follow the law, which she calls “misguided” and “destructive” in the Times.