Mt. Pleasant High School knows how to bring the pep as they prepare for the big homecoming game on Friday. Monday, the high school held it?s annual pep rally, which included signs, games and even a faculty flash mob.
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsWAYLAND ? There?s no arguing with statistics. WACO School District students taking the ACT college readiness test last year were an intelligent group.During Monday night?s regular meeting of the WACO School Board, the district?s results on last year?s ACT were announced. WACO students scored a composite 26.1 on the test, compared to a state composite average of 22.1. Generally, ...
A two-vehicle and single-vehicle accidents were investigated recently by the Mt. Pleasant Police Department.Mt. Pleasant Police were called to the intersection of North Lincoln and East Taft streets Sept. 16 to investigate a two-vehicle collision.Police determined a 2006 Ford Taurus, owned and operated by Stephen Vitale of Mt. Pleasant, was stopped at the stop sign facing east of East Taft Street.A 2001 ...
Mt. Pleasant High School knows how to bring the pep as they prepare for the big homecoming game on Friday. Monday, the high school held it?s annual pep rally, which included handstands.
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsIs hot metal making a comeback? Perhaps, it never left.A couple hundred people attending a Printers? Fair and Ladies of Letterpress event at Printers? Hall last week on the Midwest Old Threshers grounds would tell you the latter.Hot metal is a type of technology for typesetting text in letterpress printing. This method injects molten type metal into a mold that has the shape ...
Mt. Pleasant City Hall will be closed Tuesday, Sept. 20, and Wednesday, Sept. 21, as staff moves to its new location at 307 E. Monroe St.City hall will observe regular hours of operation Thursday, Sept. 22, at its new location on the second floor of the civic center/library building.City staff asks for patience as the city?s email and phone system will be not operating during the move.For more information ...
BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsA man?s current health condition is still unknown after a motorcycle crash yesterday (Thursday) afternoon.Med Force airlifted Bruce Wesley Grove, 61, of Port Orange, Fla., to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, in Iowa City, after he crashed his motorcycle on Highway 218, near mile marker 38, at around 3 p.m., yesterday.Grove was northbound on Highway 218 in the left ...
BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsOn Wednesday, the Winfield-Mt. Union Community School District Board of Education held its annual organizational meeting.The first order of business was to elect a president and vice president of the board. This year, Klay Edwards and Dan Schurr switched positions as Schurr accepted the nomination for the presidency and Edwards took over as vice president.Following the oath, the ...
Bob Corlew, president of Lions Clubs International will be stopping in Mt. Pleasant Sunday as part of the Lions Centennial Bus Tour of North America.Corlew, who was elected at the Lions? 99th International Convention, June 24-28, in Fukuoka, Japan, will be at a reception in his honor Sunday, Sept. 18, from 2:30-4 p.m., in the International Room of the Chadwick Library on the campus of Iowa Wesleyan University. ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsWith the calendar saying that summer ends next week, Henry County Engineer Jake Hotchkiss and his crew are thinking autumn.Hotchkiss, in his weekly report to county supervisors Thursday, updated the board on summer construction projects. He said all summer projects are either finished or in their final stages.One of the upcoming fall projects is a shoulder-widening excursion ...
BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsAs the weather begins to cool down, most people?s thoughts won?t be revolving around air conditioning, but the Mt. Pleasant Community School District Board of Education sure is.The board spoke briefly Monday during its regular meeting about air conditioning the elementary schools. Superintendent John Henriksen said the site committee had met with engineering firms Shive Hattery, ...
BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsFor a man from a town of 45,000 people on the east coast, coming to small-town Mt. Pleasant was a bit of a culture shock, but in a good way, he says.Zakary A. Mayo, originally from Southington, Conn., moved with his family to Mt. Pleasant in August, to begin his new job at Iowa Wesleyan University as an instructor of sports management. Little did he know, however, he was also set ...
BY ANDY KRUTSINGERMt. Pleasant NewsNot much will change from last year during fall?s hunting season in 2016. Bag limits and possession limits are all staying the same, and for the most part, animal populations are just as they were last fall.The deer population, which has dropped in recent years, is on a steady rise. The timing may have been lucky for the state of Iowa, though, with the recent fear of a spread ...
BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsDespite receiving three separate bids from out of town roofing contractors for work to the Winfield Library and Fire Station roof, Winfield City Council is still on the hunt for the right business for the job.Dearborn Becker Roofing, of Ottumwa, submitted the lowest bid for the project at $39,600, which the council thought was still too high for what the city wanted to spend. ...
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