Mt. Pleasant News

Winfield held its second annual MudWolf Mayhem Run on Saturday, Aug. 15. The 5K obstacle race began with participants attempting to ascend Mount Mayhem. Other obstacles, which were designed to challenge the runner?s athletic abilities, included climbing three cow panels before launching themselves into a mud pit, jaunting over a pile of pallet and dashing through the spray from a fire hydrant before running back ...

BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsNEW LONDON ? Voters in New London will soon be able to ask the tough questions of the school board candidates with a ?Meet the Candidates? night planned.The event will be held in the school?s auditorium on Thursday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m., and will be hosted by the New London Community School District and The New London Journal.?This is going to be a very informative event,? said ...

One of the first obstacles the kiddos encountered during the Hero's Run, held in Winfield on Saturday, Aug. 15, was to do their coolest jump onto a landing mat.

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsThe Mt. Pleasant Community School District has filled the director of instruction and technology position, at least for the coming year.Pat Shier was selected as the interim director of instruction and technology.?Pat comes to us from the AEA (Great Prairie Area Education Agency), having been there for many, many years and is highly qualified to help us and fill in this year as ...

By BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsWAYLAND ? WACO School District officials are considering charging admission to grade 7-12 concerts, musicals and plays.?I am thinking about charging the same as we do to varsity, junior varsity and junior high athletic contests,? Superintendent Fred Whipple told the WACO School Board during its regular meeting Monday night.?The receipts would go to the school activity fund,? ...

Des Moines ? This week?s approval of USDA Rural Development program applications from Henry, Jefferson and Washington Counties and the Mississippi and Des Moines Rivers confluence regions will help to strengthen rural economic development efforts in southeast Iowa.?USDA Rural Development?s Stronger Economies Together (SET) program helps establish a state resource team that will bring the talents and resources of ...

Incoming freshman at Iowa Wesylan University spend the morning and early afternoon Thursday getting to know one another and the campus as part of new student orientation.

AMES ? Tyler Raub, 13, of Mt. Pleasant will have one of his steers featured in the 2015 Governor?s Charity Steer Show.This will mark the 33 consecutive year the beef industry has raised funds to help families who utilize the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Iowa.This year, the show ring competition takes place Saturday, Aug. 15, at 4 p.m., in the Pioneer Livestock Pavilion at the Iowa State Fair when celebriti...

BY BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsThis fall will mark Mt. Pleasant Middle School?s first year of the 1:1 laptop initiative, giving students the world at their fingertips.However, before staff hand out new MacBook Air laptops to all its students, and MacBook Pro laptops to all its teachers, there are still some strategic planning meetings to be had and lingering questions to be answered. With this in mind, Mt. ...

BY KARYN SPORYMt. Pleasant NewsLauren Novak fell in love with pooch Macy as soon as she saw her online. But rescuing Macy wasn?t enough. Novak, age 7, wants to find a forever home for all of the animals at Ft. Madison?s P.A.W. pet shelter, and she?s doing so one glass of sweet lemonade at a time.?Hi, would you like some lemonade?? Novak asks; the excitement raising her voice an octave by the time she finishes ...

Hunters needing to satisfy the hunter education requirement can search for and sign up for a course at www.iowadnr.gov. To sign up, click on the hunter education online registration line in the popular pages box.Prospective students can see which courses or field days are near them; how many seats are available for the class or if the class is full; and a waiting list is available. There is also a map showing ...

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is conducting farmland leasing meetings in 11 different sites across Southeast Iowa during the month of August. The meeting will last approximately three hours and will be facilitated by Charles Brown, farm business management specialist with ISU Extension and Outreach.Topics include: cash rental rates, land values, writing and terminating a farm lease and determining ...