The Prime Time Band performing on opening day at the restored Band Shell in Plaza Del Mar Park. (Courtesy photo) Credit: Sydnie Bierma / Noozhawk photo After being closed to the public for years, the ...

MASON CITY — The East Park band shell, subject of much discussion and public debate over the past several years, wouldn’t have even been in East Park except for a fluke, according to a retired Mason ...

For more than 150 years, Elmhurst’s Wilder Mansion on Cottage Hill Road has been a community hub — a home, a meeting space and “a center of progress,” according to Lydia Wilder, whose family once ...