Mt. Pleasant News

A follow-up on a cyber tip by the Mt. Pleasant Police Department led to the arrest of Joel Corder, 31, New London, on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor.According to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department, officers followed up on a tip Dec. 20 from the National Missing and Exploited Children regarding the dissemination of child pornography.The tip showed that Corder had downloaded child pornography. He was ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsAttorney and Henry County Magistrate Tim Liechty was at Thursday?s board of supervisors meeting for a real-estate matter but talked more about a recent experience he had with someone who was suffering from a mental illness.Liechty said he recently dealt with a case involving a woman who kicked in a door and obviously, according to him, needed mental-health treatment. He said he ...

Recently re-elected Henry County officials took the oath of office from Magistrate Tim Liechty Tuesday prior to the board of supervisors meeting. Officials re-elected on Nov. 8 taking the oath included, from left, Supervisor Greg Moeller, Auditor Shelly Barber, Sheriff Rich McNamee and Supervisor Gary See.

Mary Ann Messer, left, was the winner of the Mt. Pleasant News? ?Bear?y Merry Christmas drawing recently at Hy-Vee in Mt. Pleasant. She was presented her prizes by Brandi Harris, right, general manager of The News. Bears were hidden at participating businesses during the holiday season and those who found bears had their name entered into the grand-prize drawing. Messer won gift cards from Brown?s Shoe Fit of Mt. ...

A Mt. Pleasant woman was charged with failure to maintain control following a single vehicle accident Dec. 29 on Winfield Avenue, just east of the Pilot Travel Center.According to the Henry County Sheriff?s Office, Von Baccam, 51, Mt. Pleasant, was traveling eastbound in a 2005 Chevrolet pickup when she lost control and drove into the south ditch.Damage to Baccam?s vehicle was estimated at $3,500.

A vehicle/deer accident on Friday, Dec. 23, caused minor damage to a 2016 Ford SUV.According to the Henry County Sheriff?s Office accident report, Gloria Fear, rural Mt. Pleasant, was westbound in the 1600 grid of Oakland Mills Road when a deer ran out in front of her vehicle.The vehicle?s front right quarter panel struck the deer causing minor damage to the Ford. Fear was not injured.The sheriff?s office also ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsThe Henry County Sheriff?s Office is investigating an apparent burglary at Butch?s River Rock Café in Oakland Mills.Sheriff?s office officials said they were notified at approximately 8 a.m., Wednesday of an early morning burglary to the café. A small amount of cash was reported stolen.Henry County Chief Deputy Tracy Brooks would not say whether there was forced entry into the ...

BY ROD BOSHARTGazette Des Moines BureauDES MOINES ? Hull Sen. Randy Feenstra is living the dream as a Republican legislator tasked with reforming, rewriting and reducing Iowa?s income taxes.Feenstra, 47, enters his third term in the Iowa Senate next month as the newly named chairman of the Senate?s tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and part of a GOP majority that controls the Iowa Senate for the first time ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsHenry County?s secondary-roads department will welcome a new diesel Gradall hydraulic excavator in March.Henry County supervisors approved the purchase of the equipment during their regular meeting Tuesday. The Gradall XL 4100 IV hydraulic excavator will be purchased for $330,000 from Mid-Country Machinery of Waterloo. There will be no trade-in. County Engineer Jake Hotchkiss ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsIt wasn?t a very merry Christmas for one Mt. Pleasant family as an early morning fire Christmas day extensively damaged a home at 1007 W. Saunders St.Stewart Kinney, Mt. Pleasant fire chief, said a neighbor reported the fire shortly after 4 a.m. Dec. 25.Eighteen Mt. Pleasant firefighters responded to the blaze, and Kinney said the fire already was raging in the two-story ...

The Mt. Pleasant News will not be publishing a paper on Monday, Jan. 2, 2017.As New Years falls on a Sunday this year, the news office at the Mt. Pleasant News, as well as its sister papers ? The Washington Journal and Fairfield Ledger ? will be closed in observance of New Years.The News office will reopen Tuesday, Jan. 3. Subscribers will receive regular delivery on Tuesday as well.Offices for the City of Mt. ...

BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsPatricia Sallee is settling into her new digs at the Henry County Community Health Department at Henry County Health Center (HCHC) and is looking forward to furthering many of the practices of her predecessor as the county?s Community Health Director.Born in Mt. Pleasant, a former student of Southeastern Community College and Iowa Wesleyan, and a current resident of Louisa ...