By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant News SALEM ? Carole McDowell says she won?t miss the ice and snow, but she will miss the people.During the 38 years she carried the U.S. mail on rural gravel roads in southeast Iowa, she was able to build friendships with people on her routes.McDowell, who retired May 29, ironically ended her career where her life began ? in Salem.Unlike many nearing retirement age, it was ...
The meeting site for tonight?s (Monday) Mt. Pleasant Community School District Board of Directors meeting has been changed.The meeting originally was to be in the district central office, but now will be in the high school media center.Tonight?s meeting begins at 7 p.m.
Mt. Pleasant Community School District directors will have a presentation on a bullying policy during their regular meeting Monday, June 8, at 7 p.m. at the Central Office.Directors also will consider approval of district bullying procedures.Other tentative agenda items include approval of a universal breakfast program; designating funds for the high school roof replacement; and approving the 2015-16 bread ...
The City of Mt. Pleasant has announced that it will be testing its warning sirens.The test is set for noon on Wednesday, June 10.
Mt. Pleasant legislators ? State Rep. Dave Heaton, left, and State Sen. Rich Taylor, right ? shake hands following the passage Wednesday of bipartisan legislation, which would keep the Mt. Pleasant Mental Health Institute (MHI) open. A bipartisan Senate-House committee had been working about a month on craftng the legislation, Taylor said.
A Ft. Madison man died in a two-vehicle accident June 4 at the intersection of Goodyear Road and 235th Street in Mt. Pleasant. The accident occurred at 5:56 a.m.According to the Henry County Sheriff?s Office, Donald Randall, 20, Ft. Madison, was pronounced dead at the scene.Randall was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Austin Burgess, 19, Keokuk.The Burgess? vehicle collided with a car driven by George ...
By BRYCE KELLY Mt. Pleasant NewsThe popularity of e-cigarettes continues to rise, according to new reports from Chris Kempker, Henry County?s tobacco prevention coordinator.The most recent nationwide studies are showing the percentage of U.S. high school students who said they had used an e-cigarette in the past 30 days rose to five percent in 2014, a more than 60 percent jump from 2012 and roughly triple the ...
By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant News SALEM ? City council members were briefed the county sheriff and county attorney, fielded a complaint, received updates on several projects and approved repairs to the city?s water system during their regular meeting Tuesday evening.It was one of those meetings ? nothing controversial and several business items swept off the docket ? that council members appreciate.Henry ...
Average retail gasoline prices in Iowa have risen 0.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.66 per gallon May 31, according to GasBuddy?s daily survey of 2,036 gas outlets in Iowa.This compares with the national average that has increased 0.4 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.75 a gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.Including the change in gas prices in Iowa during the past ...
SALEM ? The Lewelling Quaker Museum in Salem has recently received a Victorian-era dress to add to its collection of period clothing. The dress was donated by Elsie Pidgeon Craig, on behalf of descendants of Isaac and Phoebe Pidgeon who were among the first settlers to arrive in Salem in 1835.The dress was worn by Mary Pidgeon, daughter of William K. and Penina Trueblood Pidgeon. She was born August 26,1851, at ...
Cessford Construction will be doing some milling and resurfacing of Mt. Pleasant streets June 3-5.Work will be done in the blocks of 300 S. Adams St; 100 S. Van Buren St.; 100 N. Van Buren St.; and 300-400 W. Broad St.Cessford will be in each block on two different occasions.There will be limited access to these blocks at different times during the road project.If possible, please make other arrangements to ...
Jeremy Pohren and his son, A.J., will be taking a week-long trip beginning this weekend as they participate in the 2015 Hot Rod Power Tour. The Pohrens (A.J. is on the left in the top photo) will be driving the senior Pohren?s 1969 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 which they pose with in the photo.
Warner Engineering Associates, Inc., the engineering firm for the Iris Street project, is hoping that paving can begin on the final stretch of the project next week (week of June 8).The project began in the spring of 2014, but wet weather for most of the summer of 2014 prevented the project from being completed. The remaining portion of the project is basically from the railroad tracks near the Monroe Street ...
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, hosted a town-hall meeting Friday at Access Energy Cooperative in Mt. Pleasant. Grassley, who will be seeking his seventh term in the Senate in 2016, appears annually in each of Iowa?s 99 counties.
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