The New London Middle School which has undergone extensive renovation work the past two years. The school is now handicap accessible with an elevator being installed. The student commons area, shown, is a place for quiet conversation and homework for New London Middle/High School students. The commons area also has three large-screen televisions.
DEAR ABBY: I am a twice-divorced woman who has never been good at choosing the men in my life. Two years ago, I met a man who is 12 years my senior. He is sweet, thoughtful and caring, and would do just about anything for me. What started as companionship has turned into a full-blown love affair. The problem is that he is married.His wife is not well. She has a chronic disease and other medical problems. The way ...
By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant NewsIowa Wesleyan College is in the process of applying to regain its accreditation with the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), according to a college official.The school had its nursing program accreditation revoked last spring, but college officials said they are unsure why the accreditation was revoked. ?I am not sure what happened. I was not here and ...
By MEGAN COOPER Mt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? Superintendent Stephen McAllister is eager and excited to start the 2013-2014 school year, because of all the changes that have taken place over the summer and the changes that will continue throughout the year. Everyone in the district is excited about these changes, and they are waiting to see what is to come. The enthusiasm for the new year and the new image ...
MISCELLANEOUSAnimal complaint ? 300 block of South Marion Street, Aug. 20.Burglary/breaking and entering ? 200 block of West Monroe Street, Aug. 20.Animal complaint ? 700 East Cedar Street, Aug. 20.Animal complaint ? 800 block of West Henry Street, Aug. 20.Theft ? 2000 block of 235th Street, Aug. 20.
Henry County unemployment bucked state trend ? slightly ? in July, according to official statistics released this week by Iowa Workforce Development.Unemployment decreased by one-tenth of a percent ? 5.6 to 5.5 percent ? in Henry County in July, the report showed. Meanwhile, statewide unemployment rose from 4.6 to 4.8 percent.Most of Henry County?s neighbors also saw a modest drop in the jobless rate. Following ...
By MEGAN COOPER Mt. Pleasant NewsDust on the gravel roads leads to frustration because it?s everywhere, but no one can do much about it because of this drought.Henry County Engineer Jacob Hotchkiss is trying to help.He told the Henry County Board of Supervisors yesterday that he has been taking bids for the quarry crushing letting that needs to be done, and this time, it will include the lime. ?Taking the ...
The Henry County Health Center and the Mt. Pleasant Rec Center will team together to offer a program on osteoporosis tomorrow (Thurs.) from 9-10:30 a.m. at the Rec Center in Mt. Pleasant.Laurie Parks, RN from the Henry County Health Center?s Infusion Therapy Department, will be the presenter.The public is invited to attend; you need not be a Rec Center member to attend.
INVESTIGATIONSJohnathan Lee Potter, 27, Oquawka, Ill., was arrested and charged with assault causing in jury without the intent to inflict serious injury and causes bodily injury, Aug. 18.Robert (AKA Mark) Mark Kelley, 35, Prattville, Ala., was arrested at 1000 block of North Grand Avenue and charged with public intoxication ? enhanced, two or more convictions, Aug. 19. MISCELLANEOUSAnimal complaint ? 400 ...
Mt. Pleasant seven-year-old Teyanna Lane performed a jazz dance in the Bill Riley Talent Show earlier this month at the Iowa State Fair.
When you combine dry weather with heat, river levels decrease rather quickly. Remember when the Skunk River was well out of its banks last spring and early summer? Well, now the river is down to one of its lowest levels in quite some times. This photo was taken over the weekend. However, low water levels aid the young girl, pictured in front, in her search for rocks.
DEAR ABBY: I recently declined a wedding invitation because my spouse and I will be out of town on the date of the wedding. A few days after I sent the RSVP, I got an email from the groom saying he had "suspicions" that I wasn't attending because I was bitter about not being in the wedding party.I was shocked by the email. Not only do I not care about who is in the wedding party, I don't think we're such close ...
This week my husband Joe and the boys have been busy in the evenings trimming the fence rows. We have the posts, gates, and fence wire here to fence in the hay field. The horses and ponies will be glad to be back on pasture again. We put our pasture field into beans this year. Eventually we will want to put it back into a hay-field. We were going to put corn in that field but the farmer has seed corn across the ...
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