Obituaries

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News The City Development Board will pay a $384 special sewer assessment for the Community Building in unincorporated Mt. Union.Henry County Auditor Shelly Barber approached the Development Board a couple weeks ago requesting they pay the special assessment for the community building as the building still is legally owned by the city of Mt. Union, despite it being unincorporated. ...

A pavement patching project will close Henry County Road X-23 and Racine Ave. to truck traffic weather permitting on Thursday, June 14 and Friday, June 15.The road is near Mt. Union between Iowa 78 and Henry County Rd. H-28.The Iowa DOT reminds motorists to drive with caution, obey the posted speed limit and other signs in the work area, and be aware that traffic fines for moving violations are at least double ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News The city is hard at work this summer completing the numerous construction projects to better Mt. Pleasant's streets and sewers.The Mt. Pleasant City Council approved several change orders and projects including installing a new stormwater pipe across Mapleleaf Athletic Complex's parking lot and hiring LL Pelling Co. to do chip and seal on city streets during a meeting on ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News A two- to three-foot increase in elevation could be the difference between the flooded Water Works Campground and grounds that are able to be used well into the summer months.The Henry County Conservation Department campground, surveyed by French Reneker Associates Inc., will move from an elevation of 567 feet inland to an elevation of 569 to 570 feet cost dependent. This could ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News The Mt. Pleasant Community School District expelled two middle school students whose threatening remarks prompted investigations in May.The school board agreed to expel the students during two separate closed sessions to discuss what happened to prompt the conversation and the details of an expulsion consent agreement during the board meeting on Monday, June 11.The first ...

By Alma Gaul, Quad-City Times DAVENPORT ? As her father sat shackled in a courtroom chair, 2-year-old Frida played with a gold-colored rosary, climbing over the lap of her mother, who was quietly weeping.That was the scene Monday morning in Davenport's U.S. District Court, as Ricardo Macias Saucedo, one of 32 men arrested May 9 during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Mt. Pleasant, appeared before ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Henry County is proactively preparing in case of disaster.Emergencies start local and end local, Emergency Management Coordinator Walt Jackson counseled during a Board of Health meeting on Tuesday, June 12.?The state and FEMA may come in, but they're going home,? Jackson said. ?We're the ones who have to live with everything in the end.?Jackson was invited to the Public ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Henry County is on the map ? the flood plain map that is.Thanks to a grant from FEMA following the flood of 2008, Henry County was chosen to be mapped for flood risk by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (Iowa DNR). While the preliminary map can be viewed online, it does not go into effect until the fall of 2019.?It's a good planning tool for us to keep people out of the ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Just two weeks into summer, the Mt. Pleasant Community School District is focused on making improvements for the 2018-2019 school year.During the school board meeting on Monday, June 11, the board discussed progress on paving the Mapleleaf Athletic Complex parking lot, support for pickleball courts at the middle school and various improvement projects at the schools.If the ...

The Mt. Pleasant Rotary Club served over 1,600 people on Thursday, June 7, during their annual BBQ. The club has been doing cookouts every Thursday in June since the early 60's.