Mt. Pleasant News

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsNEW LONDON ? It?s all up to the voters now.The New London Community School District held its second of three informational meetings regarding the April 5 bond issue on Saturday. The final meeting will be held tonight (Monday) at the North Campus board room, with a tour following.The Saturday meeting, which began at 10 a.m., and lasted just about an hour, allowed for residents to ...

DAVENPORT ? On March 30, 2016, Thomas James McLaughlin, 48, of Mediapolis, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 84 months in prison for receiving child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Hansen was ordered to serve 10 years of supervised release following his prison term, comply with the sex offender registry requirement in the state ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. ? Great Western Bank is pleased to announce the promotion of Jim Olson to Market President of the Burlington and Mt. Pleasant markets.Olson is a graduate of Iowa State University, earning a degree in industrial administration in 1978. Olson spent the past 38 years in the financial services sector, including five years at the Iowa Division of Banking. He joined Great Western Bank in October 2014 ...

Results of a recent Special Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP), of which the Mt. Pleasant Police Department was a participant, revealed that the vast majority of drivers are buckling up.Some 95 percent of drivers were wearing seatbelts in a survey conducted prior to the program. A sample taken after the program had 93 percent of drivers in seatbelts.There were 71 contacts made during the program, which ran from ...

Henry County Health Center has signed agreements to participate with all three Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) that are administering Iowa?s new Medicaid managed care program. The MCOs include Amerigroup, AmeriHealth Caritas and United Healthcare. This means that HCHC Wayland and Winfield Community Clinics and HCHC Physicians and Clinics (orthopedics, women?s health and general surgery) have agreements with all ...

Mt. Pleasant?s Fire Department hosted its annual fundraising pancake breakfast March 26 at the fire station. Serving was from 6-10 a.m., and during most of the morning, a line formed waiting for the breakfast.

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsKatie Gavin will be joining the team at Mt. Pleasant Community School District come July as the new Director of Instruction.Gavin, who will be coming to the district with over 15 years of experience as a school leader, has a Masters of Education from the University of Northern Iowa and is currently the Administrator of Professional Services for the Great Prairie Area Education ...

Members of the New London Board of Education will be in attendance on Saturday, April 2, for a community meeting.The community meeting will be regarding the upcoming general obligation bond election. Architect, Bob Ormbsy, will give detailed descriptions of the proposed projects and Matthew Gillaspie, of Piper Jaffray, will explain the finances.The meeting will begin at 10 a.m, in the board room.

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsZach Duncan asked, and the Henry County Board of Supervisors answered.During their March 22 meeting, Duncan asked the supervisors if they would consider allowing travel of all-terrain vehicles on county gravel roads if he presented a petition in support of it.At their meeting Thursday, supervisors said, by consensus, that they were going to follow Iowa Code on the topic. That ...

BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsVan Allen fifth grader, Jesse Krabill may just be a great artist in the making, but for now, he?s more focused on being a kid with a wide variety of hobbies and interests.And although he prefers to speak of his budding artistic abilities with modest reservation, Jesse?s mother, Sarah Krabill, and his school art teacher, Jean Caboth, say they have seen Jesse?s artistic sensibility ...

BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsFor Don and Sandee Fields, leading the fight against world hunger is a life?s passion. In their time working together, the local couple has helped send millions of nutritious meals to hungry mouths all over the world, and insist that 2016 promises to be one of their most impactful years yet.Over the last 13 years, Don and Sandee have been fighting world hunger under the banner of ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsIt didn?t take Danny Graber, of rural Mt. Pleasant, long to decide to run for political office. The Republican announced last week that he would be seeking the GOP nomination for the Senate District 42 seat.Thus far, Graber is the only announced GOP candidate for the post, currently held by Democratic State Sen. Rich Taylor, of Mt. Pleasant. Taylor is seeking another term.Grabe...