Obituaries

The Iowa Girls? Coaches Association named their 2015-16 All-District teams and three area players made the cut.On the Class 4A Southeast team, two Fairfield players received recognition in Nicole Buch and Sami Fritz.Buch, the Trojans? leading scorer this year, averaged 16 points per game, led the team with 82 assists and 74 steals and made 43.5 percent of her shots from the floor. The sophomore piloted head ...

New York Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman agreed to accept a 30-game suspension under Major League Baseball?s domestic violence policy, a penalty stemming from an incident with his girlfriend last October.Under the discipline announced Tuesday, the four-time All-Star will serve the penalty from the start of the Yankees? season on April 4. He will lose 30 days of pay ? $1,856,557 of his $11,325,000 salary. The ...

The Tampa Bay Rays? exhibition game against Cuba?s national team in Havana on March 22 has been finalized, Major League Baseball?s first trip to the communist island nation since the Baltimore Orioles played there in 1999.MLB and the players? association announced the game Tuesday. It will be televised by ESPN and ESPN Deportes.Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says ?during a time of historic change, we ...

Fairfield?s middle school and high school archery club members have participated in three tournaments this season up in Washington and come away with some pretty impressive scores.The archers shoot three scoring rounds at 10 meters apiece and three at 15 meters with a practice round before each flight. Each flight has five arrows shot and the score is tallied at the end of both.Gage Hook was Fairfield?s top ...

Mt. Pleasant?s Police Department received a report Sept. 5 of a scam.The victim said someone identifying himself as an employee with a utilities department advised the victim that service was going to be shut down.During the conversation, the victim provided his name, date of birth, Social Security number and a credit card number to the scammers. The victim?s credit card was then used soon after.Mt. Pleasant ...

Mt. Pleasant policemen responded to an accident Aug. 31 in the 100 block of North Jefferson Street.The accident report relates that a 2009 Chevrolet truck, operated by David Felton, was traveling northbound. Felton made an illegal U-turn and struck a legally parked 2004 Dodge truck owned by Joan Rowland.Total damage was estimated at $1,500. There were no injuries, and Felton was cited for failure to obey a ...

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News There hasn?t been a Midwest Old Threshers Reunion this century without the Wissman family providing some of the free ground entertainment.Loren and Gloria Wissman and their children marked their 17th year at Old Threshers, ranking as either one of the longest or the longest continuous entertainment group.Although when asked, Loren Wissman said the family keeps returning ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News When Leroy Van Dyke took the stage at Country Gold during Midwest Old Threshers on Thursday night, Lillian Starks was thinking about her mother.Ten years ago, Starks waited in line at Old Threshers to get signed sheet music of the song ?Auctioneer? for her mother. That much-anticipated and much-loved song by Starks means even more to her now as she listens to it in memory of ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Vernetta Zimmerline has been setting up a modest tent on the Old Threshers grounds since she was a teenager 40 years ago.This year, Zimmerline shares a tent with her daughter Alicia Baxter and granddaughter Dakota Harding, who don?t mind living ?rustically? once a year. The trio traveled from Des Moines on Friday afternoon, Aug. 25, and are spending a total of 10 days on the ...

It was a Yee Haw good time this past weekend, Aug. 25 - 27, during the 134th annual Old Settlers in Salem.