Mt. Pleasant News

Henry County?s Habitat for Humanity Chapter broke ground Sunday for its 25th house. The house will be built in this lot at 506 South Bittersweet in the Heather Estates. The area is located southeast of the Faith Christian Outreach Center.

WAYLAND ? WACO School Board members will consider the approval of a superintendent to serve on a monthly basis during its regular school board meeting Monday at 5:30 p.m. in the media center at the high school.Other tentative agenda items include a public hearing on an Internet safety policy, approval of the audit report and approval of a locker quote for the secondary locker rooms.

With southerly breezes warming temperatures, Lindsey Moeller, left, and Emma Huckabone, right, of Mt. Pleasant couldn?t resist unpacking the kite. Continued moderate temperatures and southerly breezes no doubt will lead to more kite flying.

A former employee at Mt. Pleasant High School has been arrested and charged with a Class B felony and serious misdemeanor following the execution of a search warrant on March 5.Lonnie Jones, 43, of 808 E. Washington St., was arrested and charged with conspiracy to deliver methamphetamine (Class B felony) and possession of marijuana (serious misdemeanor) following a search of his residence.Intelligence informatio...

April is Military Awareness Month and yesterday (April 15), was ?Purple Up Day,? and people were asked to wear purple to show their awareness and support of the military. Dalton Krum, a MPCHS sophomore, was one of the organizers on the local level, urging students and instructors to wear purple. The photo shows the high school students and Todd Liechty, high-school principal, left in back row, and their purple ...

Henry County?s Habitat for Humanity Chapter will reach a milestone Sunday, April 18, breaking ground on its 25th house. The house is located at 506 S. Bittersweet St. at Heather Estates (behind FCOC) in Mt. Pleasant. The ceremony begins at 2:30 p.m.

Engineers for the Iris Street reconstruction project say they don?t anticipate closing the Monroe and Iris streets intersection until the week of April 27.However, starting next week, traffic on North Iris Street will be reduced to one lane and there will be flaggers to help direct traffic.The reason for traffic reduction to one lane is that Jones Contracting will begin setting up and pouring the recreational ...

Beginning April 28, all court filings in Henry, Jefferson and Louisa counties are required to be filed electronically.If you are a filer, please consider attending one of the following open houses:Tuesday, April 21 ? 1:30-4:30 p.m., Louisa County Courthouse.Wednesday, April 22 ? 9 a.m.-noon Henry County Courthouse; 1:30-4:30 p.m. ? Jefferson Country Courthouse.

A dry week has been unusual for the North Iris Street reconstruction project, and Shipley Construction took advantage of no rain this week to progress on the remainder of the project, which began last summer. Infrastructure, namely sanitary sewer pipe, can be seen in the foreground. In recent years, the city has been replacing infrastructure when needed while doing street projects. Reconstruction remaining on ...

SALEM ? With the identification of the Emerald Ash Borer in southeast Iowa, there are a growing number of questions about managing and caring for trees in our public and private spaces.That will be the subject of a presentation Saturday, April 18, given by Lisa Louck, District 5 forester for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR). The presentation begins at 9:30 a.m., and will be held at the activity ...

The Ft. Madison chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be hosting the Rachel Albright Day from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 18, in Ft. Madison.Rachel Wilson Albright was the granddaughter of Betsy Ross, who is credited with making the first American flag for George Washington. Albright was a resident of Ft. Madison from 1841 until her death on April 15, 1905.Festivities will include ...

By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant NewsFollowing a nearly 60-minute closed session conference with legal counsel during its April monthly meeting, the Regional Utility Service Systems (RUSS) Board of Directors unanimously passed a motion to move forward with litigation against the City of Mt. Union.RUSS and Mt. Union have been at odds for several years over some Mt. Union residents refusal to pay their monthly ...