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Spectators gather to watch the annual homecoming parade pass through Main Street in Ames on Monday. The parade features various Ames High School sports and organizations, Ames Community School District faculty, and the Ames High School marching band.

Photos: Parade kicks off Ames High’s homecoming week

by Emma Lorang, Contributor
Published October 1, 2025
Students, residents and Little Cyclone fans crowded Main Street on Monday to kick off Ames High’s homecoming week with the annual parade. The parade featured various sports teams, school organizations and the marching band. The parade also included the students voted to the homecoming court.
Chloride lime is added as a softening agent to treat minerals like calcium and magnesium that contribute water hardness.

Ames residents don’t need to worry about their water as concerns arise in central Iowa

by Kyle Werner, Reporter
Published September 3, 2025
As concerns of water quality in central Iowa rise, Ames residents do not need to worry about the safety of their great-tasting water supply. High levels of nitrate were found in the water supply that comes from the Des Moines and Racoon rivers this summer. Ames was not included in communities affected by the ban, but questions regarding water safety in the city have been raised.
Iowa State engineers, left to right, Connor Thorpe and Shan Jiang helped invent the "Flow Guiding Barrel," which improves gene gun performance for the genetic modification of plants. Jiang is holding a Flow Guiding Barrel. A gene gun is on the left.

ISU research project in plant genome editing leads to a promising new startup

by Jack McClellan, Reporter
Published August 27, 2025
The new Ames start-up Hermes Biomaterials is offering a product with the potential to make new waves in the world of editing plant genetics. It sprouted from a research project at Iowa State University looking into ways to improve the delivery of genetic code into plant cells and is now offering products that promise to significantly boost the delivery and efficiency of genetic information into plants.
A group of about 15 children gather around a table at the Iowa State Fair exhibit to get waterless temporary Cyclone tattoos from an Iowa State staff member.

Iowa State brings big ideas to the Iowa State Fair

by ISU News Service
Published August 4, 2025
Iowa State University's 2025 State Fair exhibit, themed “Your Iowa. Your State. Your University,” showcases the university’s innovative research, community impact, student involvement, and Cyclone pride through interactive displays, veterinary care, 4-H activities, and historical engineering projects.
Thunderstorms have brought about several watches and warnings to Story County so far this summer. (Stock photo)

Why so stormy? Iowa’s rainy summer brings severe weather to Ames

by Kyle Werner, Reporter
Published July 30, 2025
Iowa is known to have mood swings when it comes to weather, but this summer it seems to have gotten angrier than normal. In Ames, there has been heavy rain, storms and severe weather warnings for most of the month. The city has received more than 11 inches of rain just in July — a deviation of over 7 inches from average rainfall this time of year.