News & Events

(Republished from DiscoverAdel.com) In June, Adel’s Mayor, Jim Peters spoke with Mediacom Newsleaders host, Elizabeth Klinge about the city of Adel. They cover some of the history of Adel, the downtown district, the Court House, the brick streets, the Adel Tax incentive and the Adel Sweet Corn festival, which is August 8th ...

(An open letter to retiring Adel Police Chief, Jim McNeil ) On behalf of the city council, staff, and the citizens of Adel I would like to express my sincere appreciation and deepest sense of gratitude for your 29 years of dedicated service to the City of Adel. Although you ...

(Republished from the July 2011 Newsletter) Jim Peters Mayor of Adel A significant part of any community is it’s leadership. For over twenty years, Jim Peters has served Adel as councilman and Mayor. We got a chance to visit with him and hear about his love for the community and ...

January 21, 2008 Dear Editor, We have heard unofficially that the City of Waukee plans to contact property owners with the intention of annexing land West to R16 and two and one-half miles North and two miles South of Highway 6.  This is an aggressive plan as the proposed annexation ...

September 19, 2006 This letter is going to bounce around a bit, but I wanted to cover a variety of topics. When people ask me how things are going in the city, my reply generally is, “It depends on who you ask.”  There are certainly a lot of things happening ...

January 31, 2006 Adel is a great place to live right now, but actually, being my home town, I have always thought Adel was a great place to live.  Even during my time in the military and after college residing in Los Angeles and Chicago, I always knew I would ...