Obituaries

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News WAYLAND ? With the amount of money the WACO Community School District is spending on mowing and snow removal, WACO superintendent Jeff Dicks believes it might be more cost effective to hire a groundskeeper.During a school board meeting Monday, Feb. 19, Dicks said the district is on track to spend close to $30,000 on mowing and snow removal.?We (paid) over $20,000 in 2017 for ...

By Andy Krutsinger, Mt. Pleasant News Mt. Pleasant businesses should be aware of an email scam hitting the area. A local business received an email this week asking to advertise for pocket-sized sports schedules for the Panther spring sports season.The full text of the email reads like this; ?Hi Panthers Fan :), Happy Valentines day!! I'm working on the upcoming spring sports schedule cards for Mt. Pleasant ...

A Mt. Pleasant man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for child pornography.On Feb. 14, 2018, U.S. District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Joel Allen Corder, 45, of Mt. Pleasant, to 180 months in prison for receiving and possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Marc Krickbaum.On Aug. 18, 2017, Corder pleaded guilty to the charges. The investigation began in Oct. 2016, when an ...

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 Dan Eberhardt, whom you may know from Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission.Are you originally from Mt. Pleasant/Henry County? If not, what brought you here? I have lived in Southeast Iowa my entire life. My dad lived near Winfield during ...

Iowa Wesleyan University contributes a $55.1 million annual economic impact in Southeast Iowa, according to a new study recently completed by Hanover Research of Arlington, Va.The new study details the immense impact IW makes on the region in many ways including: delivering educational programming that impacts the community and region as suppliers of a well-educated labor force, the direct university economic ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News WINFIELD ? Despite rumors that the city of Winfield was cutting their police department in favor of using county resources, the three part-time police officers are remaining.Winfield's City Council meeting drew a big crowd on Wednesday, Feb. 14, after the city council voiced concern during their budget meeting on Saturday, Feb. 10 that there was not adequate police coverage in ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News More improvements are coming to Mt. Pleasant. As residents long for summer months, improvements to the aquatic center, the tennis courts at East Lake Park, new housing renovations and various other construction projects are being planned.During the Mt. Pleasant City Council meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 14, the council voted to sign an engineering services agreement with Waters ...

DES MOINES ? A resolution to add victims' rights ? many of them already in Iowa law ? to the state Constitution was approved by the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. The Senate likely will follow suit later this week.House Joint Resolution 2003 would allow crime victims to choose to be notified about proceedings in the case, the right to be present, heard and respected throughout the process and to have the ...

DES MOINES ? Jobs related to solar energy are on the rise in Iowa, bucking a national trend.But those job gains and the burgeoning solar industry in Iowa could be undone by proposals under consideration in the state and federal governments, solar energy advocates say.There were more than 800 solar energy jobs in Iowa in 2017, a 45 percent increase over the previous year, according to the latest National Solar ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Members of the Noon Rotary flocked around the digital microscopes Mt. Pleasant Middle School students brought in to show off during their regular meeting last week.Eighth-graders Jackie Tansey and Andrew Rauenbuehler confidently explained how the digital microscopes take an image and upload it to the computer, saying that the images being shown that afternoon were the cells of ...