So, you are wondering where the mountains are in Mt. Pleasant? Currently, they are on Grand Avenue. The former pavement is being ground to gravel to form the base for new pavement. If you are traveling that direction, you will see a lot of mountains between Mapleaf Drive and Baker Street.
By BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsMt. Pleasant Community High School was evacuated Monday for the second time this school year due to a bomb threat.Superintendent of Schools Dr. John Roederer said students spent about 75 minutes (1:15-2:30 p.m.) outside the building while school personnel, law enforcement and conservation department officials scoured the building. No bomb was found.Roederer said that writing ...
WINFIELD ? In their regular meeting Wednesday night, Winfield-Mt. Union School directors will conduct the evaluation of the superintendent, consider administrative positions for 2013-14 and consider staff salaries for the next school year.Also on the board?s agenda is the budget guarantee resolution and consideration of the shared wrestling agreement with the New London Community School District.The meeting ...
DEAR ABBY: I am writing in response to your answer to ?Bi in the Deep South? (Jan. 2), the woman who is happily married to a man, but who now realizes she is bisexual and wants to come out.My wife is an out bisexual woman. You were correct that it is possible to be bisexual without having acted on it, as people are not defined solely by the partner they have. Precisely for that reason, some individuals feel that ...
Iowa Wesleyan College held their annual ?Word Up Wesleyan? event in the Howe Student Union on Tuesday, in which the students explore poetry and the different forms of expression using words. In the photo, from left, Nef Mendoza, a senior at Mt. Pleasant High School, tries to read a poem as Garry Sievers, Iowa Wesleyan freshman, and Nate Daniels, Iowa Wesleyan freshman, cut onions in an attempt to make Mendoza cry.
Three Henry County department heads were recognized by the Iowa State Association of Counties (ISAC) for their years of service in Henry County government and were presented with certificates at the Henry County Board of Supervisors meeting on Thursday morning. Pictured are, from left, Sheriff Rich McNamee, 15 years, Recorder Shirley Wandling, 40 years, and Assessor Gary Dustman, 35 years.
The Mt. Pleasant Public Works Department will be installing two solar stop signs Monday, April 8.Both will be installed on Mapleleaf Drive at its intersection with North Cherry Street.The stop signs will make the intersection a four-way stop until the Grand Avenue reconstruction is completed.
By STEPH TAHTINENMt. Pleasant NewsThe mental health region being formed in Southeast Iowa now has a tentative name ? Six Keys Regional Access.Sarah Kaufman, Henry County CPC (central point of coordination), told the board of supervisors during the monthly department head meeting on Thursday morning that this name has been emailed around the six counties forming the region and has been met with approval.Those ...
The Mt. Pleasant Zone of the Lutheran Women?s Missionary League (LWML) will hold its annual spring rally Saturday, April 13, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 226 Washington, Wapello.Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. The meeting adjourns after lunch is served.The theme of the rally is ?Oh taste and see that the Lord is good,? Psalm 34:8. The speaker will be Rev. Randolph McHone, senior pastor of Grace Lutheran ...
Monday, March 4, 10 a.m.: 1st, Dave Hutchcroft and Jim McClure; 2nd, Betty Kilbourn and Lea Bradley.Thursday, March 7, 1 p.m. 7 1/2 Mitchell Movement: North-south: 1st, Mary Higgins and Karen Land, Keokuk; 2nd, G.A. Elliot and Terry Kilbourn. East-west: 1st, Anita Kohl, Burlington, and Gloria Troute, Dallas City, Ill.; 2nd, George Lord and Don Schantz, Ainsworth.Monday, March 11, 10 a.m.: 1st, Della Appel and ...
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, left, is in the midst of his annual tour of all 99 Iowa counties and took a tour of Mackay-Mitchell Envelope Corporation in Mt. Pleasant Wednesday. Here, Grassley is talking with Duane Blint, right, plant manager, who conducted the tour.
By STEPH TAHTINENMt. Pleasant NewsThe Burge Cemetery Association is once again requesting that Henry County pave the road by Burge Cemetery, west of New London.?This is our third meeting with you gentlemen,? Paul McPheron told the Henry County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday morning. ?Frankly, we?ll be back.?The association first approached the supervisors about paving the gravel road by the cemetery in March ...
By STEPH TAHTINENMt. Pleasant NewsNEW LONDON ? Trains passing through New London may be prohibited from blowing their whistle if the city decides to pursue establishing a quiet zone within the city limits.The idea of a quiet zone was brought to the city council by a resident who wanted to know if something could be done about the disruptive train whistles that occur frequently throughout the day and night.The ...
Caitlyn Flanagan of Mt. Pleasant, right, and fellow student Brianna Levandowski of Des Moines, left, take advantage of free fish and chips as part of a United Kingdom Year activity at the Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) Ankey campus. Every year, the faculty, staff and students of all six DMACC campuses take a country and focus on the economic, political, cultural and social aspects of that country ...
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