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NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleOpinionUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals School officials meet with F&M Bank CEO and Black Leadership Council representatives The president of F&M Bank and Trust met Wednesday with school officials and representatives of the Burlington Black Leadership Council to discuss how to resolve damage done by a vice president's words. The Hawk Eye Burlington School Board members serving on a joint committee met Wednesday with the president of Farmers and Merchants Bank and Trust to learn what progress the bank has made in mending relations with minority communities. ...

Iowa city urged to cut ties with bank over racist comment December 24, 2020 GMT BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — A racial equity group is urging the city of Burlington to sever ties with a local bank because of an official’s racist comment on social media. The Black Leadership Council is outraged that the city is still doing business with Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust after one of the bank’s vice presidents, Lisa Walsh, used a racist slur against Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in a November Facebook post, the Hawk Eye reports. ADVERTISEMENT “Are you going to withdraw the money out of F...

The Hawk Eye The president of the Black Leadership Council on Monday called on the Burlington City Council to sever ties with a local bank over a racist Facebook post made in November by one of the bank's vice presidents. Addressing city council during its regular meeting, the Rev. Rob Brown, pastor of the Hope Temple Christian Church and president of the 16-member council that formed about two months ago in the hopes of making Burlington a better community for their children, expressed his frustration over the city's continued business with Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust after one of th...

The Burlington City Council has selected an outside hire as Burlington's new chief of police. Marc Denney will assume his position at the helm of the Burlington Police Department at a yet-to-be-announced date. Denney accepted the city's offer for the position ahead of a meeting Monday during which the council was set to approve his appointment. “This is just formalizing it,” mayor Jon Billups said of the meeting. Denney now is the police chief of La Center, Washington, a town with a population of 3,281 as of 2018. Prior to that, according to his LinkedIn profile, he was a deputy sheriff c...