Mt. Pleasant News

By BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsWAYLAND ? WACO Community School District will submit a waiver to the Iowa Department of Education for continuation of the innovative school year (4 + 1 calendar) for the 2014-2015 school year.School directors, during last night?s regular board meeting, hosting a public hearing on continuation of the four-day school week (there were no comments by the public during the hearing) ...

Members of the Mt. Pleasant City Council?s Street Committee will receive updates on ongoing street projects and the North Iris Street project during their meeting Wednesday, Oct. 23, at 5:45 p.m. in the City Administrator?s office at City Hall.Other tentative agenda items include discussion of a request from Van Allen School and the Jefferson Street STP application for fiscal year ending 2018.

By MEGAN COOPERMt. Pleasant News?Local fire departments received training that was pretty neat,? said vice-chairman Marc Lindeen during Thursday?s Henry County Board of Supervisors meeting.?Pioneer and Farm Bureau partnered together to provide grain-bin training to the fire departments. It was for extraction exercises and the training included a portable grain bin with corn in it,? Lindeen informed the board. ...

And the beat goes on.Mt. Pleasant?s Panther High School Marching Band gained its 27th consecutive Division I rating Saturday in Muscatine. The Iowa High School Music Association-sanctioned contest was hosted at Muscatine High School.The 195-member band, directed by Jim DePriest, featured songs from the Broadway hit ?Miss Saigon? in its performance.The band will perform its show one final time Tuesday night ...

Construction is progressing rather rapidly on the new Advance Auto Parts store in Mt. Pleasant. Plans are to have the store open before the end of the year. The store is located just north of McDonald?s and Super Wash car wash.

It is natural to expect to find grass and trees in a park. While the trees still can be found in Mt. Pleasant?s Central Park, grass is at a minimum. Instead, the grass is replaced by piles of dirt, machinery and workers finishing up the project. Because most of the infrastrucutre was installed underground, it necessitated digging up the park. But it will all be forgotten along about next June when residents ...

WAYLAND ? WACO School Board members will host a public hearing concerning a request for the innovative calendar (four-day school week) for the 2014-15 school year during the board?s regular meeting Monday, Oct. 21.Some other tentative agenda items include approval of the media specialist assistant job description; approval of elementary and secondary student handbooks; and approval of archiving electronic ...

By TRISHA PHELPSMt. Pleasant NewsWINFIELD ? The Winfield City Council approved the use of fireworks at next year?s Crooked Creek Days? celebration, though, not approving as much of a donation as the Crooked Creek Days Committee had hoped for.?Last year I asked the council to back us to $3,000 and the committee and myself raised all $3,000,? stated Scott Jennings, speaking on behalf of the committee.?Well good ...

Just in case motorists don?t know which direction to go as they approach the intersection of Jefferson and Monroe streets, the signage, top photo, provides the information. Crews are in the midst of the process of evening the pavement between the new and old concrete on the streets. Once that is accomplished, Main, Monroe and Jefferson streets will be opened to the travel. According to information from Warner ...

By TRISHA PHELPSMt. Pleasant NewsWAYLAND ? The Wayland City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance that would create a snowmobile route for citizens to use.?Next time we could have the second reading and waive the third,? said Mayor Brad Roth. The next city council meeting will be Nov. 6.According to the ordinance, operators of snowmobiles shall comply with the following restrictions in the ...

By MEGAN COOPERMt. Pleasant News?The new health care marketplace isn?t as easy as it looks,? said Robb Gardener, CEO of Henry County Health Center, during Tuesday?s Henry County Board of Trustees meeting.?It launched two weeks ago and people find it very confusing,? Gardener continued. ?The infrastructure on the IT side of things wasn?t as robust as it needed to be. Very few people have actually signed up for ...

MISCELLANEOUSSuspicious person, activity, vehicle ? 600 block of North Adams Street, Oct. 15.Counterfeiting/forgery ? 1000 block of North Grand Avenue, Oct. 15.Suspicious person, activity, vehicle ? Trailways, Oct. 15.Animal complaint ? 800 block of East Washington Street, Oct. 15.Burglary ? 900 block of South Main Street, Oct. 15.Suspicious person, activity, vehicle ? Saunder?s Park, Oct. 15.Animal ...