Obituaries

Rep. Dave Heaton (R-Mt. Pleasant) listens to several members of MPOWER U, including Mt. Pleasant student, Sadie Carrasco, second from the left, during a legislative reception at the Embassy Suites Atrium during Southeast Iowa Days at the capitol.

The Iowa Wesleyan University Chadwick Library in partnership with The Mt. Pleasant Public Library will host a panel discussion on Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's Vietnam War screening on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 7 p.m. in the International Room of the Chadwick Library.Iowan and Former Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Dr. Kenneth M. Quinn, will be hosted at Iowa Wesleyan University (IW) and be a featured panelist. ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News The men and women walking out of the Henry County Corn Growers Banquet last night left with a challenge: Tell your story.As members of the Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) celebrated the progress of the last year and meditated on the goals set before them in the year to come, board president Ken Helt shared the power in a farmer's testimony.Introduced as a farmer to a ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News With four months left of the fiscal year, Henry County has reached its limit on indigent burials at a time when Supervisors were in discussion to change the ordinance to allow for more.At the Board of Supervisors meeting on Thursday, Feb. 22, funeral home directors were in attendance to voice their concern over the current ordinance, which has caused them to take on the extra ...

Practical Farmers of Iowa invites farmers who sell soybeans into the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) supply chain via its Des Moines plant to participate in a cover crop cost-share program through Unilever's Sustainable Soy program.Practical Farmers is a partner in the program, which provides cost-share funds for planting cover crops and gives participants access to a robust cover crop support system through PFI's ...

The Henry County Conservation Department's maple syrup program has been canceled.The event was scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 24, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Oakland Mills County Park, Top of the Hill area. With the area forecast calling for snow and ice, the program has been canceled. At this time the program has not been rescheduled.

?The Swedesburg Lutheran Church Luther League enjoyed a ski trip to Sundown Mountain in Dubuque on Sunday, Feb. 18.

DES MOINES ? Seeking to bypass what could be a protracted court battle, the Iowa House Tuesday voted 94-3 to require the contract to develop standardized tests for K-12 students to go to the University of Iowa testing services.After the Legislature sent out requests for proposals last year, the Iowa Department of Education awarded the contract to Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes of Research.The UI ...

Education will be at the forefront of discussion during a legislative forum on Saturday, Feb. 24.The legislative breakfast is the second of a four-part series hosted by the Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber Alliance to bring elected state officials, Sen. Rich Taylor (D-Mt. Pleasant) and Rep. Dave Heaton (R-Mt. Pleasant) together with the public to discuss important topics each month.The Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the creation of a task force to examine how his Justice Department can better combat a wide cross-section of global cyber threats, including efforts to interfere with elections or damage critical infrastructure.The announcement on Tuesday of the new task force came amid renewed concerns about how Russia and foreign adversaries may attempt to use cyber ...