Des Moines County · Iowa

Des Moines County has stories. Be the one to tell them.

Across the country, 213 counties have no local news outlet left, and 1,524 more are down to one (Medill, 2025). Whether Des Moines County's paper is thriving, thinning, or long gone — the games are still won, the meetings still happen, and somebody should be writing it down.

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OurWeek already publishes weekly in Grant County, Indiana — every inbox, the community's social page, and a printed page at the diner counter. Des Moines County could be next.

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If you're the one who already knows everything going on here — the group admin, the connector, the neighbor people ask — this was built for you.