The Mt. Pleasant Community High School will be hosting a meeting for all current 10th grade students and their parents to discuss scheduling options for the 2016-2017 school year. The meeting will be held at the High School Commons on Feb. 16, 2016, at 7 p.m.All sophomore students and their parents should attend.
The Fellowship Cup, in conjunction with Healthy Henry County Communities, held a free community healthy cooking class at the Fellowship Cup on Tuesday. Above, Kelly Carr, left, and Jeremy Klopfenstein, right, slice peppers as part of a fajita recipe.As part of the class, participants were instructed in using a Crock Pot to cook healthy meals and desserts by Tasha Upton, of Miss K?s Homemade Delectables and Con ...
BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsNEW LONDON ? It was a busy night for the New London City Council on Tuesday, as the council held a joint meeting with the Utility Trustees before diving into the fiscal year 2017 budget.Before discussing the electricity rates and income generated from the windmill, the trustees approved hiring Brandon Lincoln as an apprentice lineman and the council authorized the dissolution of ...
BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsIt?s a conversation a long time in the making, but Mt. Pleasant is finally having an open discussion to assess the need for professional community childcare within city limits.With a list of panelists and a time for open discussion, Healthy Henry County Communities (HHCC), Community Partnerships for Protecting Children and the Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance will host a ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsSALEM ? Salem has moved one step closer in establishing a veteran?s memorial.Members of the memorial planning committee appeared at the council meeting, saying they could not proceed until they had a location. The committee has met once, about a month ago.The city council tentatively approved a location north of the bell in the community?s central park during its regular ...
BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsIf it oinks like a pig and roots like a pig, can the pig be considered a pet and not livestock?That?s one of the questions facing the New London City Council following the its regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday night. One of the actionable items on the agenda was deciding if a teacup/pot-bellied pig could reside within city limits.?My children have raised this piggy and they ...
Monie Hayes, of Mt. Pleasant, makes her pitch to fellow caucus goers to garner more support and delegates for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.
Henry County Sheriff?s deputies had a busy day Saturday, making four arrests and filing charges against another individual.A report was received at 4:31 a.m., Jan. 30, of a wrong-way driver driving eastbound in the westbound lanes of traffic on Highway 34 near mile marker 226. Deputies located the vehicle near mile marker 234, still going eastbound in the westbound lanes.Deputies attempted to stop the vehicle, ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsState Sen. Rich Taylor, D-Mt. Pleasant, told the Student Nurses? Association at Iowa Wesleyan University Monday, that he would attempt to reopen the Mt Pleasant Mental Health Institute (MHI).The legislator, however, said that he doesn?t expect to be successful.?I am going to try and put money in the budget this year to open the Mt. Pleasant Mental Health Institute, but money ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant News?It looks like we dodged a bullet,? assessed Henry County Engineer Jake Hotchkiss this morning.Much of Iowa was under either a blizzard or winter storm warning beginning last night. However, temperatures in southeast Iowa remained at or above freezing. Consequently, when northern Iowans woke up to inches of snow, residents in the southern part of the state saw sleet, but not ...
BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsMT. UNION ? Now, that the Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that city general fund monies garnished by the Regional Utility Service Systems (RUSS) must be returned to the City of Mt. Union, snow removal should not be a problem in the community.Until the garnished funds are returned, snow will be cleared in the community, according to Mayor John Marek Jr. said. ?I promised people ...
Wartburg College?s Castle Singers, under the direction of Dr. Nicki Toliver, presented a concert Saturday evening at the Swedesburg Evangelical Lutheran Church as part of the group?s 2016 regional tour.
An accident in the Walmart Supercenter parking lot in Mt. Pleasant on Thursday, Jan. 28, resulted in damages to both a truck and a concrete post.According to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department, a 2015 Dodge Ram, owned and operated by Ronald Overberg, of West Point, was driving into the Walmart parking lot from the north. The truck made a turn around a concrete post and turned too sharply.The truck struck the ...
A Wayland man, Colton Gallup, 22, was arrested Jan. 24, in the 400 block of West Front Street in Wayland.Gallup was arrested for having an outstanding warrant and also was charged with driving while his license was suspended, a simple misdemeanor.A criminal charge is merely an accusation and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
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