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Beth Dalbey, a longtime award-winning community journalist, is Patch’s national editor. She has been with Patch since 2011 when she launched sites in Iowa and provided national Iowa Caucus and swing-state general election coverage. She worked as a regional manager before moving to the national desk in 2017. Throughout her time at Patch, she has reported and written about local topics of national interest and is currently focusing on exclusive Patch content, including Block Talk, an only-on-Patch neighborhood etiquette column for which readers supply advice.
Dalbey and the newspapers she has edited have earned numerous awards for news, feature and government coverage, editorial and column writing, and overall general excellence from the Iowa Newspaper Association, the National Newspaper Association and the Associated Press Media Editors. In 1992 in Iowa, she led the weekly Dallas County News to win the INA's prestigious Newspaper of the Year award, competing against metro newspapers many times its size. She was the youngest recipient ever of the INA’s Distinguished Service Award in 1994. At Patch, she received the Todd Richissin Award for Excellence in Reporting and Writing for the “Menace of Bullies” project.
In Iowa, Dalbey’s byline has also appeared in the Fairfield Daily Ledger, where she was editor for five years; and in the Des Moines Business Record, Cityview, dsm magazine and other publications under the umbrella of Business Publications Corp., where she was the editorial director for several years. Dalbey also freelanced for the Des Moines Register and other print and digital publications
Dalbey grew up in Missouri and majored in journalism at Northwest Missouri State University. Except for a three-year stint as communications editor for a scientific institute doing ape language research, she has spent her entire career in community journalism. At the former Great Ape Trust of Iowa, she wrote about the world-famous resident bonobos Kanzi and Panbanisha.
Southern Texas and the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes have the best chances of low cloud cover; the Northeast could be in for a letdown.
House voyeurism: for when you don’t have the millions of dollars — or tens of millions of dollars — to buy these houses but want to gawk.
House voyeurism: for when you don’t have the millions of dollars — or tens of millions of dollars — to buy these houses but want to gawk.
House voyeurism: for when you don’t have the millions of dollars — or tens of millions of dollars — to buy these houses but want to gawk.
Naperville set the Guinness World Record for the most people wearing underwear on their heads at a 2012 “Captain Underpants” author event.
This weekend is a good time to poke your head in the sky and get a glimpse of the International Space Station.
During the 2017 eclipse, captive gorillas marched to their night houses, giraffes galloped and tortoises swooned over each other.
Experts expect March to be the busiest month for aurora borealis displays in two months, possibly in states as far south as Florida.
Better data could explain many UFOs, the Pentagon said in a report debunking a government cover up of evidence of life from another galaxy.
A guy eats two Big Macs a day for 50-plus years; his heart’s fine. Another guy stuck his head in a pickle bin. And “hay,” this is a mystery.
The discount grocery chain said its growth is fueled by stubbornly high grocery prices and Winn-Dixie, Harveys Supermarkets acquisition.
Leashes may be required, but some people give their dogs the freedom to romp — and jump and slobber on people, or worse, knock them down.
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These star players in the ecosystem slither out when daytime temperatures are consistently in the 60s. Most snakes are harmless.
Even northern tier states are reporting an early emergence of ticks, which can spread Lyme disease, babesiosis and other serious illnesses.
Both men and women started drinking more excessively during the pandemic, but women more so than men, the CDC said.
Built in 1695, the Reeves-Iszard-Godfrey House is listed on the national and New Jersey historic registers. It was expanded in 1800.
Now a single-family residence, a 1913 church echoes some of life’s most important milestones and celebrations from its cathedral ceilings.
A Queen Ann Spanish Victorian Revival home is one of several important Connecticut buildings designed by Dudley St. Clair Donnelly.
Since 1980, winters have warmed across 86 percent of the continental U.S., especially in the Northeast. The West is getting colder, though.
Guinness World Record holder Don Gorske has eaten as many as nine McDonald’s Big Macs a day, but now eats two a day, and little else.
