By BRYCE KELLYMt. Pleasant NewsWalt Jackson, Emergency Management coordinator for Henry County, has issued a state of emergency notice for Henry County after severe thunderstorms and high winds ripped through the county on Saturday night and early Sunday morning. The notice was reviewed and approved by the county supervisors during their regular board meeting on Tuesday.?Henry County has sustained severe ...
An emergency management declaration for Henry County is on the tentative agenda of the Henry County Board of Supervisors for the board?s regular meeting Tuesday at 9 a.m. in the courthouse.Other tentative agenda items include the county engineer?s weekly update and a motion to set date for county fuel bids.
BY KARYN SPORY Mt. Pleasant NewsAs Dr. Mike Wells? tenure at Mt. Pleasant Community School District will draw to a close on July 1, the board of education has elected to find an interim replacement for the upcoming school year.The board met Monday evening at the community room at Central Office for a work session, especially to create a game plan to find a new superintendent.Dr. Jon Sheldahl, chief administra...
Saturday?s powerful thunderstorm, which spawned two tornadoes in the county, caused a lot of tree and limb damage. A locust tree, pictured, was uprooted at the corner of North Lincoln and East Harlan streets.
Due to the citywide storm damage, the Mt. Pleasant Public Works Department is offering curbside collection for tree limbs and debris this week only.Public works staff will need to determine how many garbage stickers your yard waste will require. Contact the public works department at 385-1480 to speak with someone or to leave a message.The city?s yard waste collection area located southwest of Sanders Park will ...
By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant NewsTwo people were injured Saturday evening during what Henry County Emergency Management Director Walt Jackson termed a bizarre night.?It was kind of a bizarre night because it isn?t often you have two tornadoes touch down within a half hour of each other in different parts of the county,? Jackson noted.The National Weather Service (NWS), according to Jackson, confirmed that ...
Utility Service Group of Rogers, Ark., is stripping and recoding the interior of the city water tower on Winfield Ave. The tower will be out of service between 40-45 days, utilities? officials said.
Do you have a plan for a new business? Are you an existing business owner and want assistance analyzing your profit and loss or expanding your business? Would you like assistance with customer acquisition, market or industry analysis?If so, Jamie Clover, regional director and certified business advisor for the Iowa Small Business Development, will be available at the Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance office ...
Directors of the Mt. Pleasant Community School District will meet in a work session Monday, June 22, at 6 p.m. in the community room at central office.The lone tentative agenda item is discussion on filling the superintendent vacancy.
By BRYCE KELLY Mt. Pleasant NewsHenry County Health Center?s Board of Trustees approved an agreement with University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC) that will expand the health center?s newborn care services during their monthly meeting on Tuesday.With the board?s approval, HCHC?s physicians and nurses will soon have the capability to partake in telemedicine consults with UIHC newborn care specialists ...
Editor?s note: The following article regards a misidentification of Thomas ?Tad? Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln and William Aaron Harlan, son of Senator James Harlan that was passed down through generations until recently cleared up.It began will a telephone call from Jane Gastineau, librarian for the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection, at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Ind. to ...
Lydia Jo Allen, who will be a senior at Mt. Pleasant Community High School in the fall, will participate in a program sponsored by the University of Iowa?s business school that introduces students from underrepresented groups to higher education and business education.The Gateway Project will be held June 22 to June 26 at UI?s Tippie College of Business, and will give 30 soon-to-be high school seniors a taste of ...
Favorable weather Tuesday allowed Jones Contracting to pour some of the driveways to businesses located on North Iris Street. The Iris Street project, which began last spring and was repeatedly interrupted by inclement weather last summer, is nearing its final stages. Continued dry weather would have possibly allowed the project to be completed by the end of this month. However, rain in the forecast the next ...
Rebekah Kimzey, daughter of Mark and Linda Kimzey, of Mt. Pleasant, was named to the President?s List at Simpson College in Indianola for the spring semester.To be named to the President?s List, a student must have a GPA of 4.0.Megan Myers, daughter of Michael and Tracy Myers, of Burlington; Madysinn Crull, daughter of Carrie Hobbs and Mark Crull, of Mt. Pleasant; and Brianne Potts, daughter of Michael and ...
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