Mt. Pleasant News

Average retail gasoline prices in Iowa have fallen 4.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.52 per gallon July 15, according to GasBuddy?s daily survey of 2,036 gas outlets in Iowa.This compares with the national average that has fallen 3.7 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.61 per gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.Including the change in gas prices in Iowa during the past ...

Raeanna Crile, left, talks with Katelynn Gardner, right, prior to the Henry County Fair?s Bucket Bottle Calf Show Thursday night.

Henry County Soil and Water Conservation District commissioners will meet in regular session Tuesday, July 22, at 3:30 p.m. at the district office, 709 S. Iris St., Mt. Pleasant.The meeting is open to the public. If special accommodations are needed, please call the office at 385-2824, ext. 3.

For the first time since April, the paving crew was back this week pouring pavement south of the Walmart Distribution Center driveway. Crews had hoped to begin paving weeks ago. However, wet weather in late June and earlier this month caused the construction crews to miss considerable work.

By BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsComments were sometimes sharp and emotions ran high during parts of the Mt. Pleasant Community School District Board of Directors meeting Monday night at the Central Administration building.A crowd of over 100 residents forced the moving of the meeting from the board room to the meeting room.During the meeting, a no-confidence vote (97 percent in favor of the vote) and a ...

WINFIELD ? Field goals and touchdowns may still be six weeks in the future, but Winfield-Mt. Union took a page from the gridiron, racking up a 18-10 victory over Cardinal July 10 in the final tuneup before post-season tournament play.With the win, the Wolves move to 8-17 on the season and tangle with Danville tomorrow (Tues.) at 7 p.m. in Danville. WACO meets Burlington Notre Dame in the 5 p.m. opener tonight in ...

After learning earlier in the day the building was structurally unsound and in danger of collapse, yesterday Fairfield law enforcement closed off the streets around the Tribune Printing Company at 101 W. Briggs Ave. at approximately 3 p.m. Law enforcement set up a fence around the perimeter to prevent pedestrians from getting too close to the building.Just before 5 p.m., an excavator arrived on the scene and ...

By BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsSALEM ? An intersection in Salem will have to wait at least another month before repair is authorized.A motion by Councilman Bill Wixom Jr. to repair the Liberty/Main streets intersection died for a lack of second and the matter was later tabled. It was same song, second verse for the matter as a similar motion in June, also by Wixom, died for the lack of a second.Council ...

Even statues get excited for the Fourth of July celebration in Mt. Pleasant. The Belle Babb Mansfield statue on the Iowa Wesleyan College campus has been decorated to mark the patriotic holiday.

Mt. Pleasant?s Independence Day Parade will be at 5 p.m., Friday, July 4, at McMillan Park.Along with the parade, there will be other activities at McMillan Park beginning at 5 p.m. include train, trolley and carousel rides, tractor rides and the opportunity to drive a tractor, National Guard obstacle course and MedForce (Mt. Pleasant Fire Department, Henry County Health Center and EMS) at 4:30 p.m.Fireworks ...

Editor?s note: The following article on the only Revolutionary War veteran buried in Henry County (a monument to his service is displayed at Forest Home Cemetery) was submitted by Sylvia Ridinger. Information for the article was taken from the Iowa Historical Record of January 1897. There are old men now living who, when boys in Eastern states, remember that on the Fourth of July celebrations of those days, an ...

By TRISHA PHELPSMt. Pleasant NewsWAYLAND ? Wayland?s City Attorney Mike Vance had some advice for the city council on how to appropriately handle the tenants in the building at 211 West Main Street that was purchased on June 30 by the city.?I would strongly suggest you get some kind of simple written leases in place,? said Vance at Wednesday night?s council meeting. ?You could possibly get criticized in an ...