Mt. Pleasant News

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News The former mayor and city clerk of Mt. Union won their defamation case against the unincorporated town.On Tuesday, Dec. 5, Dan Johnson, the former mayor of Mt. Union, and his sister Linda Johnson, who worked as the city clerk, appeared in the Henry County District Court to sue the unincorporated town for $250,000 in damages for harassment experienced over the last six years.Dur...

WEST BURLINGTON ? Teresa Krueger, Diabetes Education, and Cheryl Robben, Integrated Services, have been named EXCEL Service Heroes at Great River Health System. The health system recognizes employees who demonstrate actions that extend beyond routine, expected employee behavior.Criteria for the service hero award are based on the health systems' philosophy of care. EXCEL stands for Enthusiastically friendly, ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News From the time a person contracts chickenpox, a more sinister virus lies sleeping in the human body.Shingles rises to the surface when a person's immune system becomes stressed or weak, whether from getting older or other factors. While there is a vaccine to fight against shingles, there still is a 30 percent chance of developing the virus. However, with a new vaccine on the ...

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News The Mt. Pleasant News has been made aware there is a new scam targeting subscribers of the newspaper.According to subscribers they have received phone calls from scammers claiming to be from The News and notifying them their subscription is about to expire. The scammer then asks for a credit card number in order to renew the subscription.This is not how The News conducts ...

A rural Mt. Pleasant woman was arrested and charged with driving while barred after being pulled over for speeding.Tori Lynn McPherson, who was driving a 2002 white Ford Focus, was stopped at approximately 12:57 a.m., on Thursday, Nov. 30, by a Henry County Sheriff's Deputy near the intersection of Dakota Avenue and Salem Road for speeding.McPherson was found to be driving while barred. She was arrested and ...

Cookies were free to decorate during the New London Holiday Stroll at the fire department along Main Street.

No injuries were reported after a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of South Grand Ave. and East Linden Drive on Friday, Dec. 1.According to police reports, Jaxon Hoyle, of Mt. Pleasant, was operating a Pontiac Grand Am south bound on Grand Ave. and failed to stop his vehicle before running into the back of a Toyota RAV4, operated by Kurt Rosenberg, of Mt. Pleasant. Rosenberg was stopped, waiting to turn ...

A Mt. Pleasant man was arrested and charged with burglary and drug possession following a lengthy investigation by the Henry County Sheriff's Department.David Mertens, 39, was arrested on Nov. 28, after the Henry County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant at 701 W. Henry Street, in Mt. Pleasant. According to police reports, the search warrant was part of an ongoing, lengthy investigation of multiple ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News It was like their own personal Black Friday for elementary students in Mt. Pleasant. When the doors of Van Allen Elementary School opened at 8 a.m., children and their parents were lined up to the end of the block anxious to start shopping for Christmas presents.Parents waited in one room while their children went on to the school gymnasium where about 2,000 gift options ...

Every week, the Mt. Pleasant News will feature a Henry County resident in a profile snapshot. The questions will appear in bold.This week's 'Friend on the Front Page' is Delaney Van Ness, whom you may know from Shottenkirk-Mt. Pleasant.Are you originally from Mt. Pleasant/Henry County? If not, what brought you here? I am not, I'm originally from Des Moines County. I came to Mt. Pleasant to attend Iowa Wesleyan....

It's beginning to look a lot like ?Pleasantville.? Twinkle lights and multi-color lights in Central Park helped to welcome the month of December, and soon Santa Claus, to Mt. Pleasant. The square will be decked out in full Whoville style next week for Holiday on Main, which goes from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7.

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News Stop. Think. Call.That's the three things Al Perales, an investigator with the Consumer Protection Divison of the Iowa Attorney General's Office, wants Henry County residents to remember if they receive a suspicious phone call, text or email.Representatives from the Iowa Attorney General's Office will be in Mt. Pleasant on Tuesday, Dec. 5, to talk with Henry County residents ...