The following article is from the Downtown Community Alliance about the new Healthy Chef Cooking Challenge, teaming up local chefs and Hoyt Middle School students. They will be shopping for ingredients at the Downtown Farmers Market and then preparing two …

Good luck to six students and three teachers from Des Moines Public Schools who are traveling to the Brave New Voices (BNV) spoken word poetry festival in San Francisco from July 17-21, courtesy of a grant from the …

2012-13 School Year Begins at Capitol View, Moulton and River Woods With the weather feeling autumnal after last week’s blistering heat wave, why not get back to school? Roughly 1,500 Des Moines kids did just that this morning …