Andy Hallman

The Washington County Board of Adjustment approved a conditional use permit to allow C. L. ?Lee? Wilson to build a house in the 1800 block of 315th Street a few miles north of Brighton. Wilson had to get a conditional use permit because the property is in the open space overlay and in the 100-year flood plain. The county?s zoning ordinance states that conditional use permits are required in order to build a ...

RIVERSIDE ? The Riverside City Council hired a deputy city clerk at its special session Thursday. Teresa Sladek of Iowa City was chosen to fill the position, which has been vacant ever since former deputy clerk Donna Leyden retired in December. Sladek will be paid $13.50 an hour and will start Monday. The council voted 3-2 to hire Sladek. Councilors Kevin Kiene, Nate Kasdorf and Christine Kirkwood voted yes to ...

Dave Mitchell gave the Washington City Council an update on the planning for a wellness park. Mitchell and Greg Woller co-chair the Comprehensive Planning Committee, which has produced an estimated cost of the facility based on the amenities that residents sought according to a city survey. The proposals that Mitchell presented to the council Wednesday would be for a 46-acre park costing about $4.3 million and an ...

Steve and Sue Norman of Washington County presented the Washington County Fair Board with a check for $2,500 at its monthly meeting Wednesday. Monsanto representative Jeff Hedges and Rob Patterson of Stutsman Inc. in Hills were on hand to present the check, as well. Monsanto has a program called ?Grow Communities? whereby they select one farmer at random from each of the 1,200 participating counties. The farmer ...

A group of sixth-graders showed off the mechanical inventions they?ve been making over the past seven weeks at a science fair at Lincoln Elementary School Tuesday night. About 70 people attended the event at which eight teams of budding scientists took turns demonstrated their devices for the audience.The program is an after-school extracurricular activity known as ?Contraption Challenge.? It was started three ...

A Washington woman spent two weeks this winter volunteering in a mobile health clinic in Cambodia. Lou Ann Miller, who has lived in Washington for the past 30 years, went on a mission trip to the Southeast Asian nation with a group called Global Health Outreach from Jan. 27 to Feb. 13.Miller was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Illinois before moving to Washington in 1980. She has worked in the medical field ...

The Riverside Visioning Committee met Thursday at the Riverside City Hall where it received an update on the new marquee sign southwest of the intersection of Highways 218 and 22. Committee member Jim Leyden announced that the electronic sign had been turned on Tuesday and that it was now visible at night.The sign displays the time of day and the temperature in Fahrenheit. It is also capable of displaying ...

The Washington City Council approved a budget Wednesday which included an increase in property taxes of $1 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. That would bring the city?s tax rate to $15.98 per $1,000. A few Washington residents attended the council?s meeting and spoke against the proposed tax increase. They encouraged the council to solve its budget woes some other way.Resident Michael McFarland said he was ...

RIVERSIDE ? Riverside resident Larry Schluttenhofer informed the Riverside City Council Monday that he looked into the possibility of putting on a rodeo this summer and determined there was not enough time left to plan one. He said he?d like to bring a rodeo to town next year, and that it would take about $22,000 to put on a two-day rodeo. The council debated whether to hire temporary summer help or a fourth ...

More than 200 people turned out for Stewart Elementary School?s Reading Night Tuesday. The school had many stations throughout the building at which parents played reading-oriented games and activities with their children. One room had a karaoke machine in it. Kids sang into microphones while they watched the words to the song flash on the projector in front of them. One of the songs the kids sang was ?The Wheels ...

Several vehicular accidents were reported over the weekend after the county was hit with a couple of inches of snow. A few vehicles were reported off the road near Riverside on Highway 218 Sunday at about 4 p.m. One was in the median and the other was in the west ditch. There were no injuries reported.Two vehicles were involved in a collision in the 1200 block of Highway 1 in Kalona at about 4:40 p.m. Sunday. ...

The Knights of Columbus will hold its annual pancake and sausage meal today at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Washington. Lunch was served today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and supper will be served tonight from 4:30 to 7 p.m. The money raised at the event will go toward handicapped housing and to WCDC.Former Grand Knight David Schantz said this is the Knights? single largest fundraiser of the year. The Knights have ...

The United Methodist Church in Washington hosted a dinner and dance for mentally challenged adults Friday night. The church?s junior high and high school youth groups put on the event. Methodist Church minister Jim Stiles said he would like to turn the dinner and dance into a yearly tradition.The church served the guests chicken, rice, green beans, salad, brownies and sherbet.Ron Canny said the food was ...

A group of junior high students is learning the finer points of firearms from a teacher with over 30 years of experience. Jim Cuddeback of Washington is leading a class on hunter safety and ethics that began Monday at the Washington Junior High School and will continue every day through Saturday. Cuddeback is in his 33rd year of teaching the hunter safety class.Cuddeback brought about half a dozen guns to the ...

A Washington man got onto the roof of Stewart Elementary School Sunday afternoon at about 5:30 p.m. Police responded and requested that the fire department bring a ladder to the school so that he could climb down. Upon helping the man to the ground, the police discovered that he had an outstanding warrant and proceeded to place him, Justin Kyle Lough, 21, under arrest.Lough had an outstanding warrant in Keokuk ...