Due to a lightning strike which hit the Henry County Sheriff?s Office in Mt. Pleasant Tuesday night, the office?s 911 emergency services are down. Until further notice, the county?s 911 emergency services will be temporarily routed to Lee County. Lee County?s non-emergency number is 319-372-1152.
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsJack Wyatt has long thought the world has looked best through a windshield. And that?s where Wyatt always preferred to view it.Wyatt became the 16th driver from the Mt. Pleasant Walmart Distribution Center to join the three-million mile, accident-free club in February and was feted at a July 15 ceremony at the distribution center.Only a Walmart distribution center in Texas has ...
WAYLAND ? July not only brought the start of a new fiscal year to the WACO Community School District, but a new leader.Superintendent Jeff Dicks, whom WACO is sharing with the Washington Community School District, and the school board faced a light agenda Monday night in Dicks? first official meeting.School board members handled routine business in preparation for the 2016-17 school year ? approving fees, the ...
BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsAn official investigation has been opened after an assault took place at the Mt. Pleasant Correctional Facility Monday evening.On Monday, July 18, at roughly 5 p.m., offender Randolph Ross, 45, of Waterloo, was charged with assaulting an officer in Living Unit 1A of the Mt. Pleasant facility. The assault resulted in the officer suffering multiple punches to the facial area.The ...
John Henriksen?s first school board meeting as superintendent of the Mt. Pleasant Community School District didn?t last long, as the board flew through the agenda.The bulk of Monday evening?s meeting was receiving updates. First off the bat was an update on the currently vacant principal position at Harlan and Salem. Henriksen said the preference was to find a one-year solution so that the district could conduct ...
BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsWINFIELD ? With the talk of construction buzzing around Winfield, the Winfield-Mt. Union School Board sat down to discuss how to finance any possible renovations or building projects.Matt Gillaspie, senior vice president at Piper Jaffray, met with the board to discuss their financial health and how the board might pay for any future projects. Gillaspie passed out a booklet that ...
BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsWINFIELD ? The Winfield City Council is set on moving forward with the construction of a new pool at the Twin Lakes Golf Course, in Winfield, and on Wednesday evening, city mayor Chris Finnell laid out a preliminary financial plan to make it happen.Detailing his financial plan to pay for the project, Finnell reiterated his desire to keep the new pool from increasing the city debt ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsHenry County supervisors had a slim agenda for their regular meeting Thursday.Just one action item appeared on the agenda and the remainder of the time was devoted to supervisor sub-committee reports on the monthly meeting of the Southeast Iowa Link (SEIL) and the Regional Utility Service Systems (RUSS).The board approved a one-lot subdivision in the section 16 (Ackles ...
Crowds flocked to the Midwest Old Threshers grounds for day two of the Henry County Fair. Thursday night featured showings of the bucket and bottle calves. Above, a little girl waits to show her calf as it does a little pre-show grazing.
Anna Anderson, left, with the help of her friend, Bradie Buffington, right, both 11, spray down Anderson?s cow, Bob.
A taekwondo class took advantage of the wonderful weather Thursday afternoon to hold their class outside in Central Park in Mt. Pleasant. The class usually meets in a building on West Washington Street near the Faith Christian Outreach Center. However, in the summer they practice outside a few times. The school is called the Family of Phoenix School and participants range in age from preschoolers to senior ...
Izabelle Zihlman, 7, says she is very excited to show her cow, Rosie. This is the first year Zihlman and her brother Izaac, 9, not pictured, have shown calves at the fair.
Payton Huling, 9, and Gracie Wagner, 9, got the crowd grooving with their routine to Megan Trainor?s ?Dear Future Husband.?
BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsLOWELL ? All?s well that ends well; and that?s exactly how Henry County Sheriff Rich McNamee feels about a call the Sheriff?s Department received Wednesday afternoon.Around 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, the Sheriff?s Office received a call about a boy falling into the river near Lowell. According to McNamee, a man and child had been in a boat that capsized. Luckily, McNamee said, both ...
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