Nasty Campaigns, Price Lab, Honorable Students, Charged Teacher and Peng Tang: Pick of the Patches

The Patch community includes nine sites in Iowa. Here are some of what was shared on our Patches around the state over the past week.

When a student from South Carolina suffered a seizure while visiting Ames, a group of Summit Middle School students from Johnston hopped into action. As Johnston Local Editor Ashlee Kieler reported, .

In Marion, Local Editor Scott Raynor reported that a Wisconsin school teacher charged with having sex with an Iowa teenager and former student .

The past few months have been difficult for the parents, students, teachers and community of Malcolm Price Laboratory School in Cedar Falls. Local Editor Alison Gowans gave them a chance to post their memories -- .

More school news out of Ankeny, where Local Editor Megan Verhelst has been all over the resignation of superintendent Matthew Wendt. , then teamed with Andre Salles, a Patch local editor in Illinois, to produce on Wendt's hiring there.

The primary election between Rep. Pat Ward and Pastor Jeff Mullen hasn't been exactly saintly. -- and beyond -- to report on that race, the only way she could get some face time with Mullen, who has dodged all interviews. Associate Regional Editor Deb Belt followed with a story on . 

The primary elections aren't even here yet, but the general election between Ames Democrat Christie Vilsack and Rep. Steve King is going fast and furious. Local Editor Jessica Miller reported that Vilsack .

Good news out of Urbandale . The award-winning Making a Connection summer camp for needy Urbandale children will be expanded this summer to Jensen Elementary School. An increase in donations for the third annual summer camp means that 80 children will be able to participate this summer.

In Waukee, schools out, so  Themed "Dream Big, Read!", the Waukee Public Library's Summer Reading Program is an eight-week program targeting children, teens and adults that encourages reading for pleasure, reported Local Editor Jody Gifford.

Finally, from Iowa City, Local Editor Stephen Schmidt has been following , a Chinese national accused of sexually assaulting a woman who had been showing her apartment for rent. Tang's trial has been delayed.