Mt. Pleasant News

Faculty members, students and employees at Mt. Pleasant Community High School received a 90-minute break from classes this morning. According to ?scanner chatter,? a bomb-sniffing dog was brought in from another county to aid in the investigation. While students were shivering in the cold, top photo, the entrance and exit road to the high school was blocked by law enforcement vehicles. The building was evacuated ...

By BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsSALEM ? With the end of the year rapidly approaching, the Salem City Council is attempting to clear the desk.Paramount on the ?to do? list is completion of the city?s zoning ordinance. City leaders discovered last summer that neither a city zoning ordinance nor accompanying zoning map has ever been filed with the county, therefore making the existing city ordinance basically ...

Henry County supervisors will consider deputy appointments by Henry County Sheriff Dan Wesely during the board?s regular meeting tomorrow at 9 a.m. in the Henry County Courthouse.The board also will receive updates from departments heads and supervisor sub-committees.

DEAR ABBY: I?m engaged to someone I love very much. I am 36 and he is 44. We get along great, but he?s in a rush to get married. It will be my first and his second. We got engaged three months ago, and he wants the wedding to be in February. The date he picked is his father?s birthday.My other problem is, he is always pawing at me. He always needs to be touching me or calling me his ?beautiful angel.? It?s good ...

Many people recognized the MPHS Homecoming Court from the Class of 1958.From left are Joyce Keeley Thomas, Queen Sandi Ford Mills, Roberta Davis Virden. Those calling, emailing and commenting on Facebook included Sharon Goodard Gillis, Dean McPike, Queen Sandi Mills, John Strothman, Mary Smith, Connie Putney, Jan Roach, John Schroeder, Sherrie Pfeiffer, Francis Kephart, Linda Kaska, Karen Messer, Margaret ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband committed suicide 2 1/2 years ago. We had been married for 13 years and had two daughters who are now 15 and nine. The l5-year-old seems to be doing fine. The nine-year-old is not.But my biggest problem is my live-in boyfriend, ?Tim.? While I love him and mostly enjoy his company, he appears to dislike my nine-year-old. She needs male attention because her dad was an attentive, wonderful ...

INVESTIGATIONSKatrina Diane Meth, 46, Mediapolis, was arrested at 1700 block of East Washington Street and charged with operating while intoxicated, Nov. 24.Matthew Cody Thomas, 21, Mt. Pleasant, was arrested at 300 block of South Iris Street on a warrant for assault- simple and harassment, Nov. 24.Gregory Joseph Connolly, 28, Mt. Pleasant, was cited at 700 block of South Main for driving under suspension ...

A flashing yellow light has been installed and will be operational beginning Friday, Nov. 29, at the east entrance to New London alerting motorists on Des Moines Henry Avenue to use caution when approaching the intersection of U.S. 34/Iowa 163 and Des Moines Henry Avenue (Henry County Road X-30), according to the Iowa Department of Transportation?s Mt. Pleasant construction office.The Iowa DOT reminds motorists ...

Members of the state champion Mt. Pleasant Middle School?s eighth-grade Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl team include, from left, front, Rylee Amos, Genna Cristoforo, Betsy Bockting, Molly Hill, Kirsten Smith and Leah Johnson; back, Adam Bodenham, Ryan Hutchinson, Logan Murray, Thad Williams, Dalton Krum, Brock Wilson, Riley Kempker and Jacob Feldman.

Members of the state champion Mt. Pleasant Middle School seventh-grade Thinking Cap Quiz Bowl team include, from left, front, Stacey Agueta, Taylor Murray, Delaney McDowell, Elizabeth Herdt, Hanna Schinstock and Nicole Schlatter; back, Caleb Potts, Jonathan Ita, Cooper Huckabone, Liam Hood, Kieran Kohorst, Colby Potts and Paris Chounlamany.

The Mt. Pleasant Yard Waste Collection Area located southwest of Saunders Park will clost at 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, for the season, according to city officials.Anyone having questions should call the public works department at 385-1480.

The Henry County Pioneer Cemetery Commission will meet Monday, Dec 3, at 1 p.m. in the Henry County Board of Supervisors office in the Henry County Courthouse.Agenda items include discussion/action on a new budget and Williford, Scott and Warner cemeteries/burial grounds.