Mt. Pleasant News

By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant NewsMt. Pleasant?s City Council entered the real-estate business for a couple of minutes during its regular meeting Wednesday, selling a pair of vacated alley tracts and a city-owned lot.Following a public hearing, the council agreed to vacate the east-west alley adjacent to property at 504 and 506 S. Jackson St. Two alley tracts were sold ? for $320 each to Ken Reschly and ...

BY KARYN SPORY Mt. Pleasant News WINFIELD ? The Winfield-Mt. Union School Board officially rejected an agreement to share a superintendent with Morning Sun Community School District Wednesday evening during its regularly scheduled meeting.The two school boards met Wednesday, June 3, for a special joint meeting to discuss the schools sharing superintendent Jeff Maeder, who recently took the helm at W-MU after ...

NEW LONDON ? Following a motion defeated Tuesday to approve the meeting agenda, the New London City Council will try it again at 5:30 p.m. today.Tentative agenda items include approving the Wellmark Blue Cross-Blue Shield health-insurance plan for city employees; approving a bid to replace the furnace and air conditioner at the library; and approval of re-investing sewer and sanitation funds.

By BRYCE KELLY Mt. Pleasant NewsThe Henry County Board of Supervisors had a long list of agenda items to cover during their latest board meeting on Tuesday, June 9. Major items included in that list were updates from county engineer, Jake Hotchkiss, an amendment of a current RUSS 28E Agreement and consent to rezone county property.First order of business was with Hotchkiss, as he briefed the board on current ...

Green and red with some orange mixed in were the dominant colors in the region Monday. That?s because the WMT-Radio Great Eastern Iowa Tractorcade is in the midst of a three-day tour of southeastern Iowa. On Monday, the tractors rolled through Danville, West Point and New London. Today?s route includes Salem, Keosauqua and Houghton. Wednesday?s final day of the tour is a trip to Wayland. In the photo, tractors ...

Mt. Pleasant City Council members will act on a resolution approving employee salaries for fiscal 2015-16 during the council?s regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in City Hall.The council will also host a public hearing on the proposed vacation and sale of an alley adjacent to property owned by Ken Reschly.A second public hearing will be on the sale of a lot at 308 N. Hamlin St.Other tentative agenda items ...

Healthy Henry County Communities (HHCC) held their annual S.O. Fun Day in Swedesburg and Olds on Saturday. Families were invited out to both communities for fun games and healthy activities. In the photo, HHCC board member Ron Archer blows bubbles for young kids to chase.

Henry County supervisors will consider rezoning county property south and west of the USDA office from R-1 to B3 during their meeting tomorrow at 9 a.m., in the Henry County Courthouse.Other agenda items include various updates and approval of an amendment to the current RUSS 28E agreement.

Seemingly, there is street work everywhere you drive this week in Mt. Pleasant.Shipley Contracting began pouring concrete on Iris Street to finish a project that began last spring and was constantly interrupted by inclement weather.Meanwhile, several other city streets are receiving a new overlay. Cessford Construction is putting a new surface on several streets in the community.

Mary Hoyer will give a presentation: James Van Allen, An Unassuming Giant, as part of the SCC continuing education program. The talk will be held Tuesday evening, June 9, at the Mt. Pleasant SCC Center, Room 201, from 7-8 pm.Dr. Van Allen, an Iowa Wesleyan graduate, and discoverer of the Van Allen radiation belts, is probably Mt. Pleasant?s most famous native son ? although probably better known internationally ...

Members of the Henry County Conservation Board will receive the 2013 FEMA final report during their monthly meeting at 6 p.m. today in the offices at Oakland Mills.Other tentative agenda items include project status, 2015-16 propane contract and the Naturalist?s report.The meeting is open and the public is welcome to attend

Iris Street?s reconstruction is nearing an end.Favorable weather last week allowed the mainline on the street from the north side of Monroe Street south to near the existing concrete to be pouredPlans for this week are to pave the remainder of the project this week, weather permitting.Shipley Contracting is scheduled to pour the south end of the Iris/Monroe streets intersection today and tomorrow and then work ...