The Mt. Pleasant Historic Preservation Commission will meet Thursday, March 17.The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m., and will be held at Jerry?s Restaurant at 2105 E. Washington Street.Items up for discussion will be the long term plan for the Second Baptist Church, a memorial for Martha Hayes, the Forest Home Cemetery and the Porkhouse Marker and hog roast fundraiser.Members will also discuss the 2016-17 ...
BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsMonday night?s regular meeting of the Mt. Pleasant School Board went about as quickly and smoothly as one could imagine before heading into closed session for negotiation discussions.The big item on Monday?s agenda, the preliminary fiscal year 2017 budget, garnered little discussion, but will have a work session devoted to it tonight (Tues.).District Director of Business and ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsWINFIELD ? Property taxes will remain near the fiscal 2016 levy for the fiscal 2017 budget, according to a budget estimate passed by the Winfield City Council Monday night.The council hosted a budget hearing, and having received no written or oral comments, the budget was passed. The budget calls for $1,576,413 in expenditures during fiscal 2017. The budget will be supported by ...
BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsThe Conservation board may have some tough financial decisions to make in their upcoming regular board meetings as the department?s budget has officially been cut.Henry County Conservation Director, John Pullis, announced Monday night that Henry County Supervisors have moved to cut about $14,000 from the department?s budget. Among some of the major line items cut was money ...
The Mt. Pleasant Community School District Board of Education will be holding a work session on Tuesday, March 15.The work session will be held at the District Office and will begin at 5 p.m.Items on the work session agenda will be the Fiscal year 2017 budget, analysis of the district?s financials and the discussion of cost containing options.
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsMt. Pleasant?s Central Park will return to normalcy on Tuesday, March 15.That?s when the Edd King Memorial Fountain is being returned, according to city officials and Mary Hassenfritz, niece of King.The fountain wintered at Robinson Iron Corp., manufacturers of the fountain, in Alexander City, Ala., for repair and renovation. Employees from Robinson removed the fountain on ...
BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsIn the Girl Scouts, it?s not all about the cookies, which are on sale for only six to eight weeks out of the year. For local Girl Scouts, Zoe and Breeana Runyon, of the Hillsboro troop, and other Scouts like them, the organization is about friends, fun and finding yourself year after year.This week, the Runyon sisters, along with Girls Scouts across the nation, will celebrate the ...
BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsWINFIELD ? The Winfield-Mt. Union Community School District may be only half way through the spring semester, but the school board is already looking towards the 2016-17 school year.On Wednesday night, during the school board?s regularly scheduled meeting, the board approved several items in order to get the upcoming school year ready to go.With two options to choose from, the ...
A car/deer accident resulted in extensive damage to a vehicle being driven by Haley Wagner, of Burlington.The accident occurred March 9, east of New London on U.S. Highway 34, according to the Henry County Sheriff?s Office.Wagner was not injured in the collision.
Mt. Pleasant police officers were summoned to the parking lot south of Family Medicine on March 7, to investigate a two-vehicle accident.According to the accident report, a 2004 Ford Expedition, owned and operated by Kaitlin Denning, of New London, was pulling out of a parking stall and turning north. Denning turned too sharply and stuck a parked car on the front driver side bumper area.The parked car was a ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsOver the past several months, the Regional Utility Services System (RUSS) Board of Directors has been tightening the clamps on delinquent users.Directors, during their regular board meeting on March 9, took another step in that direction, unanimously approving a resolution providing terms for the discontinuance of sanitary sewer service to delinquent individual users.Under ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsIt didn?t take the Mt. Pleasant City Council long to sweep the table clean Tuesday.Just two items appeared on the agenda for the council?s regular meeting, which was moved up a day due to the Wednesday announcement of entertainment at the 2016 Midwest Old Threshers Reunion at an Alive After Five event at Main Street Cinemas.Topping the sparse agenda, council members approved ...
BY XIOMARA LEVSENGolden Triangle News ServiceWASHINGTON ? The Washington School Board approved a 28E agreement with WACO for sharing a superintendent at its meeting Wednesday evening.?They [the WACO Board of Education] will be making a recommendation to their board to enter into a sharing with Washington for superintendent at 70 [percent in Washington], 30 percent. So a day and a half there, three and a half ...
Area residents will be enjoying a taste of spring, according to meteorologists, the next couple of weeks as temperatures are forecasted to be above normal. A number of adults and children were at East Lake Park Monday, taking advantage of the 70-degree weather for some outside activity. Keelyn Franzen, 4, left, and her sister, Kinsley,2, right, daughters of Kim and Evan Franzen, of Mt. Pleasant, were taken to the ...
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