Obituaries

Jefferson County Relay for Life team captains met Tuesday at the Jefferson County Health Center to discuss plans for the May 14 relay.Team captains were asked to turn in team registration forms and T-shirt sizes by Thursday to Kortney Heald or Jean Keller in order to guarantee shirts for their members. Thirty-six teams are signed up to participate and hope to meet their $57,000 goal through donations, a quilt ...

?Laughter is the best medicine? is a common saying, but Fairfield?s new Laughter Yoga Club hopes to take that idea a step further.The club, which practices laughter yoga, will meet for the first time at 7:15-8 p.m. today in Morning Star Studio.Laughter yoga, a stress-reducing workshop, combines traditional yoga breathing with prolonged laughter. It has spread to more than 80 countries in 15 years.The ...

The Fairfield Senior Citizen Center has listed its menu for the coming week through Thursday.Meals are served at 11:30 a.m.Monday ? low sodium Salisbury steak and gravy, oven brown potato, broccoli Normandy, diced peaches, orange juice.Tuesday ? low sodium hearty beef and bean vegetable soup, saltine crackers, Orange Surprise Salad, homemade wheat roll, apricot half, crispy rice bar.Wednesday ? low ...

The Henry County Sheriff's Office responded to a car vs. deer crash in the 2100 grid of Hwy 218 Sunday, Sept. 9, at approximately 7:17 p.m.After an investigation, it was determined that Jason Hawk, of Donnellson, was traveling south on Hwy 218 and struck a deer in the roadway. No injuries were reported.Damage was estimated over $1,500 and a State Crash Report was completed.

A vehicle drove into a ditch near the intersection of 210th Street and Iowa Avenue north of Mt. Pleasant on Friday, Sept. 7. The Henry County Sheriff's Office received a report of the accident around 11 a.m. that day.After an investigation, it was found that Debra Gerkits, of Mt. Pleasant, had lost control of her vehicle and drove it into the east side ditch of Iowa Avenue. It was found that Gerkits had been ...

Easton Evans, Hayden and Grant Duffie and Isaac Johnson pose with their firemen hats at Burgers and Bikes on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Law enforcement and emergency responders were invited to the Main Street Mt. Pleasant event as a thank-you for their service.

Mt. Pleasant School Board member Jennifer Crull was unanimously approved by the board as the board's vice president during a regular meeting on Monday, Sept. 10. Previously, Karl Braun was vice president.

David McCoid took the oath of office and was reinstated as president of the Mt. Pleasant School Board on Monday, Sept. 10 during a regular school board meeting.

When Henry County naturalists step into classrooms across the county, students will learn about conservation through hands-on activities that align with the Next Generation Science Standards.The standards, implemented by the state for the 2019-2020 school year, inspired Henry County Conservation naturalist Cari Nicely to begin rolling out a new program last year in the classroom, which she has fine tuned for ...

The Mt. Pleasant Arts IMPACT will be restoring an outdoor advertising artifact on the east wall of the Taft-Wiley building.The artifact can be seen from the east end of the parking lot in front of The REC Center. The ad is faded but the outlines are still visible. At some point a window was cut into the advertisement, removed and the hole bricked back in. Another window remains and deletes letters of the word ...