Andy Hallman

The Washington Cable Committee had further discussion of expanding the programming on the city?s public access channel at its meeting Thursday afternoon. The committee decided that its members would address the city council on March 3 to inform the council of the committee?s progress in the last month.    At the Feb. 2 cable committee meeting, the committee met with a representative from Mediacom who gave them a

The Washington City Council approved a motion to move forward with a development agreement with Jeremy Patterson to create a TIF district on North Iowa Avenue. The council voted 3-2 to provide Patterson $40,000 in an upfront grant, which would come out of future property taxes paid on the Mills Seed Building. Council members Fred Stark, Bob Shepherd and Merle Hagie voted for the motion while Mike Roth and Karen

The Mills Seed Building will have a new home on North Iowa Avenue next week if everything goes as planned. Superstructure mover Jeremy Patterson is planning to relocate the Mills Seed Building from North Seventh Avenue to the lot on North Iowa Avenue where the Chamber of Commerce building once stood.    Patterson has told city officials he plans to start moving the building Monday. He said he plans to spend three

The Washington City Council listened to a few audience members speak about the county ambulance services, but the council did not discuss the issue at its meeting Wednesday night. The $8,250 semiannual subsidy the ambulance requests of the city was an agenda item on the council?s Jan. 20 meeting and was tabled at that time, meaning the council took no action on it. At Wednesday?s meeting, none of the five council

The Washington Workforce Center held an open house Friday afternoon to show off its new location at 1201 Industrial Park Drive. The workforce center served coffee and cookies to the dozens of residents who came to tour the center?s new facilities.    Martin Frederickson, the chief financial officer of Iowa Workforce Development, was responsible for finding the Washington Workforce Center a new home. The workforce

The Washington City Council will discuss new developments in the proposed agreement with Jeremy Patterson at its regular meeting Wednesday. Patterson has made repairs to the Mills Seed Building on Seventh Avenue and plans to move it to a lot on North Iowa Avenue between Second and Third streets. Patterson?s construction crew is now digging up dirt at the lot on North Iowa to lay a foundation for the building to sit

The Washington County Engineer?s Office recently received an award for the quality of its work on Vine Avenue just east of Riverside that occurred last year. The county was given an award for having the ?best concrete overlay? greater than 6 inches deep. Assistant County Engineer Jacob Thorius, project engineer Jake Hotchkiss and engineer Jeremy McLaughlin received the award at the 46th annual Concrete Paving

According to Washington resident Barb Steele, her son William Steele recently chartered a plane full of goods from his home in Florida to the Dominican Republic to be distributed in Haiti. William Steele won a $189,000,000 Powerball drawing last November.        Barb Steele said that William Steele?s daughter Chelsea Steele, who is a senior in high school, was on a mission trip in Haiti at the time the 7.0 magnitude

The Washington Emergency Management Commission discussed budgetary matters at its meeting Thursday night at the Sheriff?s office. Larry Smith, the emergency management coordinator for Washington and Keokuk counties, told the commission that the budget would have to be altered because of unforeseen expenses in Keokuk County. Smith said that he was informed Monday that health insurance costs would rise approximately 29

Lois Gugel has led a program called ?Memories of Yesteryears? at Pleasantview Home in Kalona for nearly 20 years. Gugel visits Pleasantview once a month to share stories from her youth and get the home?s residents to share stories about their own. She normally ties each month?s stories into the season or a nearby holiday. Gugel was just at Pleasantview Thursday and led a story-time titled ?February Fun? that included

The Washington City Council was informed of some new developments in the proposed agreement with Jeremy Patterson at a special session held Wednesday night. Patterson, who is in the process of repairing the Mills Seed Building to move it to an empty lot on North Iowa Avenue, had previously requested $86,000 in an upfront grant from the city and offered to give the city ownership of the lot the building is on. At

The Parents as Teachers program will show off its new location Friday during an open house. The open house is from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the second floor of the former library building.    Karen Arbuckle, one of the six parent educators, said that the new office is much better than where Parents as Teachers used to work.    ?We moved out of a closet on the fifth floor of Federation Bank,? said Arbuckle. ?We?ve had

A building three miles southwest of Kalona caught fire late Monday night and burned for several hours before firefighters were finally able to extinguish the flames. Kalona Fire Chief Steve Yotty said the pole building, located at 1962 140th St., was a total loss and that no property was able to be salvaged from the structure. Yotty said there were no injuries reported.     The building is owned by Kevin and Judy

The Washington County Board of Supervisors agreed to support a 3 percent pay raise for the staff of County Attorney Barb Edmondson during its budget meeting Thursday afternoon. If approved, the staff members who would receive raises are Assistant County Attorney Wyatt Peterson, Office Manager Pat Sinn and Administrative Assistant Alicia Pacha. Edmondson would not receive a raise.    The pay raises are larger than

Washington County could be out $200,000 if the Iowa Legislature follows the governor?s proposal to use road use tax dollars to fund the Iowa State Patrol. Jacob Thorius, assistant county engineer, said that the maintenance of county roads would suffer if the proposal were made law.    The secondary roads budget is approximately $5 million for the current fiscal year, so a reduction of $200,000 is a 4 percent cut.