Obituaries

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News The Mt. Pleasant Community School District now has someone at the helm of the upcoming phase two of the elementary air conditioning project, as the school board approved a contract with Woodruff Construction during Monday night's meeting.The contract with Woodruff Construction was approved for $136,900. The construction manager will be responsible for coordinating and schedulin...

As Public Health transitions to be a department under the county rather than Henry County Health Center, the Board of Health has landed on an organizational structure for who reports to whom under Board of Health.In the Board of Health meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 9, the board discussed the organizational structure, appointed a new chair as current chair Rose Lauer steps down, and further discussed their transition ...

By Xiomara Levsen, Golden Triangle News Service WASHINGTON ? A fatal car accident claimed the life of an Iowa City man Saturday morning.At 12:56 a.m., a caller reported a vehicle had left the roadway in the 2600 block of Highway 22 and struck the entrance of a residence near Riverside with someone possibly trapped in the vehicle, according to the accident report. The vehicle had also rolled several times.River...

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News Teachers in the Mt. Pleasant Community School District will have a little more time for parent/teacher conferences this spring as the Board of Education approved a schedule change Monday night.According to Superintendent John Henriksen, teaching staff had a hard time scheduling parent/teacher conferences with the limited time last fall. Last semester, parent/teacher conferences...

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News There was still plenty of debate surrounding the district's policy regarding registered sex offenders Monday night.Last month, the district approved a first reading of a policy that would allow district administrators to decide on a case-by-case basis if a registered sex offender would be permitted on school grounds, under supervision, in order to attend a child's school ...

WASHINGTON ? Washington County Conservation director Steve Anderson said that the ice on the lakes in Washington County is more than dense enough for people to ice fish on, but the excessive cold of the past few weeks has kept many people from ice fishing.Still, Anderson said that he has seen the tracks left by people who have been ice fishing on just about every Washington County lake, although he has not ...

Before any more snow can hit Mt. Pleasant, crews from the Public Works Department were out Thursday afternoon removing mounds of snow left over from clearing the streets.

WAYLAND ? Wayland's first city council meeting of the new year Wednesday night was a brief one and had the city leaders taking care of some beginning-of-the-year business.Topping the list was a public hearing on an amendment to the fiscal 2018 budget. Following the hearing, in which no written or oral comments were received, the council approved the amendment.City Clerk Bev Conrad said the amendment was needed ...

Henry County is guaranteed a bed at Montrose Iowa Juvenile Detention Center as needed, in addition to other benefits, after Henry County supervisors approved an amendment to the South Iowa Area Detention Services Agency Agreement.Supervisor Gary See presented the agreement to the board, saying that in conversations with employees at Montrose, everyone there thinks it is a very well-run facility. Henry County ...

The Mt. Pleasant News is looking to make a move.The Mt. Pleasant News' current building will be going on the market as the newspaper will begin looking for a new office space more suitable for its current needs.?The Mt. Pleasant News will continue to serve the Henry County community as a daily, Monday through Friday newspaper,? said Managing Editor Karyn Spory. ?We're excited to move into a building that will ...