Mt. Pleasant News

Henry County?s RSVP program is preparing for the open enrollment period (Oct. 15-Dec. 7) for Medicare supplement prescription coverage, according to Carol Dustman, RSVP director.Dustman said she will have three volunteers working to meet with people during that period.Just 13 percent of people with Medicare Part D plans change their drug plans each year on average, according to the Senior Health Insurance ...

Construction work on Mapleleaf could be finalized as early as this week, according to engineers from Warner Engineering.The remainder of the concrete on the Mapleleaf Drive project was poured Monday afternoon and Kinney?s has started finishing the final backfill and grading.Enright Seeding is slated to finish the seeding Wednesday afternoon, weather permitting.Jones Contracting, tentatively, is hoping to get ...

The month of October is fall clean up for Mt. Pleasant?s city cemeteries - Forest Home and Old City.City officials ask that all decorations that were placed in the cemetery during the spring and summer be removed by Monday, Oct. 31.All decorations, except permanent plantings or decorations affixed to monuments, shall be removed by the lot owner, according to city ordinance. The ordinance goes on to say shepherd ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsAlthough the camping season is grinding to a halt, there is still plenty happening in the county conservation department, John Pullis, director of the department, told the Henry County supervisors during the board?s regular meeting Tuesday.Pullis said a new membrane roof would be placed on the maintenance building this week, a project that is expected to take three to five ...

BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsStudent leaders at Mt. Pleasant High School are making strides to break the silence on mental illness and say they need parents and teachers alike to help them in their efforts.The Mt. Pleasant High School Leadership Group, a group of roughly eight students, has pulled together various community resources to host an upcoming forum to raise awareness on mental health and say they ...

The Mt. Pleasant Marching Panthers took to the field once more this weekend. The band performed during the 25th Annual Parade of Champions in Kahoka, Mo., on Saturday. The band took home first place in 4A, Caption Awards 4A for color guard and drum majors, Overall Caption Awards (among all bands) for color guard and drum majors and the Sweepstakes Award for best band overall.

In the past few weeks, the Mt. Pleasant Police Department has received several reports of bank accounts where debit/credit cards were compromised and cloned using a different card with someone else?s bank information. In all of the cases, the victims had physical possession of their cards but the fake ones were used out of state to purchase pre-paid bankcards.A press release from the police stated it is believed ...

No injuries were reported and $4,000 in collective damages were sustained by two vehicles in an Oct. 5 traffic accident in Mt. Pleasant.According to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department?s accident report, a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee, owned and operated by Kimberly Davis, of Mt. Pleasant, was attempting to leave the gravel parking lot just east of the middle school.A 2000 Saturn, owned and operated by Lacey ...

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsWINFIELD ? The Winfield-Mt. Union Community School District assembled its Facilitation Team Wednesday night in order to get a jump-start on convincing the public to approve a bond referendum that will likely be in the voter?s future.This spring, the district hired Estes Construction to perform a building assessment, a review that would help guide the school board as to what ...

Henry County Sheriff?s deputies arrested Christopher Young, of Scotch Grove, on Oct. 2, following a traffic stop.Young was stopped at 3:19 a.m., near Hillsboro and charged with operating while intoxicated-second offense and speeding.A criminal charge is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsAfter agreeing to open up skate park funds to all communities within Henry County, Healthy Henry County Communities board members decided it might be a good idea to formulate an application for those requests.?Travis (Johnson) and I talked more and in order to (open up the funds to each community), we need some sort of a process and an application so that we can be justifying our ...

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsWAYLAND ? The Wayland City Council is nearing completion on an ordinance for the use of a UTV (utility task vehicle) within city limits.The council narrowed down draft specifications Wednesday night with City Attorney Mike Vance.A bulk of the rules the council would like to see in place coincide with the ordinance for operating a golf cart in town, including limiting use from ...