A two-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 34 west of Mt. Pleasant near the Dakota Avenue exit left one vehicle waiting for the tow truck. The other vehicle was able to leave the scene under its own power. The accident occurred shortly before 8 a.m. No other information was available.
A rural Mt. Pleasant man was injured Oct. 22 when struck by a vehicle operated by his son.According to the accident report from the Henry County Sheriff?s Office, Todd Barton Sr., 52, rural Mt. Pleasant, was struck by a truck in a grass field near the intersection of 260th Street and Benton Avenue.The sheriff?s office said Todd Barton Jr., 25, of rural Mt. Pleasant, was driving a GMC pickup.Todd Barton Sr. was ...
JC Sitar, 10, gets his face painted during the HHCC Healthy Halloween Walk.
Mario shows his friends who is the fastest in the boat races during the Healthy Henry County Walk.
Abigail West, 12, thought the flyer said there would be extra fries not exercise at the fun run.
Amber Hixon, 11; Tori Hixon, 10; Steven Kimbrough, 11; and Spencer Hixon, 11, play an intense game of Operation.
Any Iowa sunset is beautiful, but an Autumn sunset at East Lake Park tends to be a bit more magical.
Citations were issued against both drivers in a two-vehicle accident Oct. 15 in Mt. Pleasant.According to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department?s accident report, the vehicles collided at the intersection of East Washington and South Walnut streets. An investigation into the collision revealed that a 2008 Toyota Camry, owned and operated by Matthew Calcango of Mt. Pleasant, was eastbound on Washington Street and ...
BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsFlickering lights marked the path over 300 area residents would take Thursday night as they kept their eyes peeled for ghosts, ghouls and pumpkins at every turn.The REC Center hosted its annual Glowing Pumpkin Fun Run at East Lake Park, which attracted its largest crowd yet.?We?re very excited,? said REC Center Program Director Jordyn Dingman. ?This is the biggest turn-out of ...
Penny Vacek, Sen. Chuck Grassley?s (R-Iowa) regional director based in Davenport, will be having open office hours in Henry and Lee counties on Monday, Oct. 24.Vacek will be in the second-floor meeting room in the Mt. Pleasant City Hall, 307 E. Monroe St., from 9-10 a.m.She will also be at the Ft. Madison Public Library?s meeting room, 1920 Ave. E, from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Open office hours provide an ...
Iowa Wesleyan University students and residents of Mt. Pleasant?s Ward 2 were able to vote early close to home Wednesday. A satellite voting site was set up in the IWU Social Hall from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. A total of 77 people cast ballots, 74 of whom were college students, at Iowa Wesleyan. Above, students are shown filling out the registration forms.The 2016 general election will be Tuesday, Nov. 8. Over 2,400 ...
BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsWAYLAND ? The Wayland City Council was met with only two items on their agenda Wednesday night.The first item of the night was approving either the repair or purchase of a new chop saw. Mayor Bradley Roth said the amount to rebuild the old chop saw, which would be roughly $600, compounded with how much the city has already spent on repairs for the machine, it just made more sense ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsWAYLAND ? WACO School Board members received some good news during their regular monthly meeting Monday night in the junior/senior high school media center.After years of declining enrollment at the rate of about 10 students per year, enrollment is up by 13.4 students for the 2016-17 term at the school. The enrollment figure is the school?s budgeted enrollment, which accounts ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsHenry County supervisors said Tuesday that they would prefer not to be in the sign installation business.The supervisors were responding to an inquiry from Henry County Engineer Jake Hotchkiss. Hotchkiss said he had been approached by the Henry County Preservation Committee about erecting more preservation signs (i.e. brown signs with white lettering announcing historic sites) ...
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