The Forest City Public Library has received a literacy grant from Early Childhood North Central Iowa. The grant is to help young children learn their ABCs, numbers, colors, and shapes.

The city’s art scene stole the spotlight this week, revealing the force of a creative class intent on stitching together a more cohesive—and self-sustaining—local ecosystem.

At Hong Kong’s Art Basel, painter Chow Chun-fai’s new works transport viewers back to the night in 1997 when the former ...