Mt. Pleasant News

Mt. Pleasant City Council?s Sanitation and Ordinance committees will meet next week.The sanitation committee will discuss facility plan progress during its meeting Wednesday, May 21, at 8:30 a.m. in City Hall.Garbage clippings, issues from the building and zoning administrator and ongoing nuisances will be discussed by the ordinance committee Thursday, May 22, at 8:30 a.m. in City Hall.

By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant NewsMt. Pleasant Community School District?s base teaching salary will rise by $675 to $32,190, according to the terms of the master contract between the school district and Mt. Pleasant Education Association (MPEA).Terms of the pact were announced and ratified during Wednesday night?s school board meeting. Settlements for personnel covered by Association of Federal, State, ...

By MEGAN COOPER Mt. Pleasant NewsMost of the minor flood damage projects are completed at Oakland Mills now, and the major project will be completed this fall.?The 2013 flood damage repairs have been mostly completed,? said Executive Director of Henry County Conservation John Pullis during the Henry County Conservation board meeting Monday night. ?We had done seeding at Water Works and South Shore, the grass ...

LOCKRIDGE (GTNS) ? Dale Ralph Stutzman, 81, of Lockridge, died Wednesday due to an accident in the 2100 block of Watercress Boulevard near Lockridge.The Jefferson County Sheriff?s Office reports that Stutzman, a resident on Watercress Boulevard, was driving a 2010 Yamaha Grizzly 700FI four-wheeler coming out of a farm drive onto Watercress. He began backing up and went into the east ditch. The vehicle flipped ...

The Henry County Treasurer?s Office will be closed all day Thursday, May 15, for staff training.The office will resume normal business hours on Friday, May 16.

By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant NewsAs it nears its fund-raising goal of $3.4 million to renovate the Union Block Building, Main Street Mt. Pleasant received a $100,000 boost from the Mt. Pleasant City Council.City leaders, during their regular meeting Wednesday night, approved giving a $100,000 from tax increment financing funds (TIF) from the district to Main Street to be used to make exterior improvements to ...

Dale Schultz?s physics class at Mt. Pleasant Community High School had its annual boat races Monday. Students participating are Jessica Holtkamp, Hannah Wickham, Tommy Pham, Megan Woodward, Ann Steffensmeier and Ben Canby.

AMES ? Iowa State University?s Department of Sociology will be compiling its third statewide survey in 2014.ISU also compiled surveys in 1994 and 2004 based on responses from almost 15,000 residents living in 99 Iowa rural communities.Called the Rural Development Initiative (RDI) Project in 1994, it was jointly supported by ISU?s Experiment Station and Extension Service to establish a baseline of living ...

AMES ? Many small towns in Iowa struggle to survive even though they offer quality of life features that are hard to find in big cities. Understanding these unique features is the goal of a new Iowa State University study. Researchers (Drs. Terry Besser, Stephen Sapp, Deborah Tootle, and Georgeanne Artz) have received a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to study the quality of life in ...

Bill Bare of Mt. Pleasant, a volunteer with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), has been honored by the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service (ICVS) for his volunteer service with RSVP.Bare was nominated by Carol Dustman, Henry County RSVP director, for the honor.He averages 25 hours per month in the medical transportation program, driving individuals to medical appointments. ?He is an unrelenting ...

By MEGAN COOPER Mt. Pleasant NewsThe first major project for the Henry County engineer was a success.During Tuesday?s Henry County Board of Supervisors meeting county engineer Jake Hotchkiss informed the board that his first major project since he?s been engineer went well.The project (project 86) took place on 195th Street and the engineer and his crew had to replace a culvert. It was a week-long project ...

Area vintage car enthusiasts hosted their first car show of the season Friday night on the Mt. Pleasant square. As usual the vehicles and engines glistened in the evening sunshine. Other ?cruise? nights are July 11, Aug. 18 and Sept. 12.