Community: Country music and robbery blocks from police department

Firefly Country Nights

By Clara Janzen, Staff Writer, Ames Tribune

Country singer Jana Kramer performed for a sold out crowd Friday night at Bandshell Park for the fourth-annual Firefly Country Nights. The next Firefly Country Nights concert will be on Sept. 8 and will feature country singer Canaan Smith. Those tickets are available at amesdowntown.org.

Read more via the Ames Tribune here. You can also watch some live footage from the event on the Firefly Country Nights Facebook page.

Man arrested blocks from police department

By Maggie Curry, [email protected]

At approximately 9:30 a.m. Friday, officers responded to a report of a robbery at the HyVee Drugstore located on Main Street. “This is one of the very, very infrequent cases we catch somebody red-handed,” Commander Geoff Huff of Ames Police said.

Read more via the Daily here.