Mt. Pleasant News

A llama and a goat find a small pasture west of Mt. Pleasant to their liking as they grab lunch during a cold, winter day.

Mt. Pleasant Police officers made two arrests on Jan. 11 in connection with a burglary and another arrest shortly thereafter on forgery and theft charges.Steven Schinckel, 51, Mt. Pleasant, and Mario Rayos, 19, Mt. Pleasant, were arrested at the Iris Motel in connection with a Dec. 26, 2016 burglary. Items from the burglary were located and returned to the owner.Schinckel and Rayos were charged with third-degree...

BY BRYCE KELLY Mt. Pleasant NewsAaron Bodenham might only be a sophomore in high school, but his age certainly hasn?t stopped him from achieving the highest honor in the Boy Scouts of America.On Saturday, Bodenham was honored at the Swedesburg Lutheran Church, in Swedesburg, for achieving the Eagle Scout award. A member of Boy Scout Troop 24, Bodenham is now a part of only approximately four percent of all ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsMt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance members had their dinner date Friday at the Mt. Pleasant Golf and Country Club with State Sen. Rich Taylor, D-Mt. Pleasant, and State Rep. Dave Heaton, R. Mt. Pleasant, relaying their 2017 legislative agenda to the two legislators.Topics included on the agenda were economic development, workforce, transportation, education, health care, tax ...

BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsTax season. It?s not many people?s favorite time of the year. Despite the burdensome nature of prepping for tax filing, tax expert Mark Lehman has a few tips to hopefully make the process a little less stressful.Lehman, a CPA and tax expert with Green Tax Pros, of Burlington, says taxes shouldn?t have to be stressful if a few basic rules are followed and considered. In fact, ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsSome money is coming to the Regional Utility Service Systems (RUSS) from the City of Mt. Union.During Wednesday?s monthly RUSS board meeting, directors approved the release of liens on three lots in Mt. Union, owned by the city, once RUSS receives payment from sale proceeds of the lots.RUSS will receive just over $11,500 from the sale of the lots, but Bruce Hudson, executive ...

BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsWINFIELD ? It was a fairly light Winfield City Council meeting Wednesday evening, with the board having little to vote on.While not an agenda item, Winfield Mayor, Chris Finnell, did comment on the ongoing status of a telepharmacy during his mayoral comments Wednesday, saying the city is fully ready to welcome a telepharmacy when the Iowa Pharmacy Board allows for such plans to ...

Blair Lawton, a candidate for the Iowa Democratic Party Chair, stopped by for a meet-and-greet at the Community Hall, in New London, yesterday afternoon. Lawton spoke to a fairly small group of locals about his plans to better build and organize the Iowa Democratic party, spending a good deal of this speech focusing on building better relationships with rural Iowa Democrats. The event was organized by the Henry ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsIt?s budget season and that means the Henry County supervisors are greeting numerous visitors ? both county department heads and county organizations making their requests for funding during fiscal 2018.Two more department heads and a like number of organizations made their pitch during Thursday?s regular supervisor meeting. Henry County Attorney Darin Stater and Joe Buffington,...

A two-vehicle accident in the Mt. Pleasant Walmart parking lot on Jan. 10 resulted in $4,000 damage to the vehicles.According to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department, a 1999 Ford truck, owned and operated by Kelly Carver, New London, was driving west in the parking lot following proper traffic flow.A 2000 Mercury, owned and operated by Bill Leyda, Mt. Pleasant, was driving north in the parking lot, cutting across ...

Midwest Old Threshers has a new addition to its staff. Mt. Pleasant native Grant Davidson has been named as the public relations and marketing coordinator for the Midwest Old Threshers.Davidson, a 2015 graduate of Indian Hills Community College, had recently been working as part of an internship program at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla.?Old Threshers is excited to have Grant join our team,? said Midwest Old ...

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsAs the Winfield-Mt. Union Community School District?s Board of Education reviewed board policies, Superintendent Jeff Maeder brought classroom sizes to the table.The policy, 606.1, says it is at the sole discretion of the board to determine the size of classes and to determine whether class grouping will take place. It is also the role of the superintendent to make recommendations...