Obituaries

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News SALEM ? Salem city council members learned during their Tuesday meeting that financial help is on the way for the community's tree replacement program in the downtown park.A couple of meetings ago, council member Mary Hoyer suggested appealing to the Enhance Henry County program for a grant to aid in the tree program. Recently, the city learned it will receive a $2,000 grant ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News The former mayor and city clerk of Mt. Union won their defamation case against the unincorporated town.On Tuesday, Dec. 5, Dan Johnson, the former mayor of Mt. Union, and his sister Linda Johnson, who worked as the city clerk, appeared in the Henry County District Court to sue the unincorporated town for $250,000 in damages for harassment experienced over the last six years.Dur...

WEST BURLINGTON ? Teresa Krueger, Diabetes Education, and Cheryl Robben, Integrated Services, have been named EXCEL Service Heroes at Great River Health System. The health system recognizes employees who demonstrate actions that extend beyond routine, expected employee behavior.Criteria for the service hero award are based on the health systems' philosophy of care. EXCEL stands for Enthusiastically friendly, ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News From the time a person contracts chickenpox, a more sinister virus lies sleeping in the human body.Shingles rises to the surface when a person's immune system becomes stressed or weak, whether from getting older or other factors. While there is a vaccine to fight against shingles, there still is a 30 percent chance of developing the virus. However, with a new vaccine on the ...

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News The Mt. Pleasant News has been made aware there is a new scam targeting subscribers of the newspaper.According to subscribers they have received phone calls from scammers claiming to be from The News and notifying them their subscription is about to expire. The scammer then asks for a credit card number in order to renew the subscription.This is not how The News conducts ...

No injuries were reported after a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of South Grand Ave. and East Linden Drive on Friday, Dec. 1.According to police reports, Jaxon Hoyle, of Mt. Pleasant, was operating a Pontiac Grand Am south bound on Grand Ave. and failed to stop his vehicle before running into the back of a Toyota RAV4, operated by Kurt Rosenberg, of Mt. Pleasant. Rosenberg was stopped, waiting to turn ...

A Mt. Pleasant man was arrested and charged with burglary and drug possession following a lengthy investigation by the Henry County Sheriff's Department.David Mertens, 39, was arrested on Nov. 28, after the Henry County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant at 701 W. Henry Street, in Mt. Pleasant. According to police reports, the search warrant was part of an ongoing, lengthy investigation of multiple ...

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News It was like their own personal Black Friday for elementary students in Mt. Pleasant. When the doors of Van Allen Elementary School opened at 8 a.m., children and their parents were lined up to the end of the block anxious to start shopping for Christmas presents.Parents waited in one room while their children went on to the school gymnasium where about 2,000 gift options ...

Mason Porter, of New London, was named Most Valuable Player of the All-Golden Triangle News Service Small School Boys? Basketball Team. Others on the squad are Zack Lasek, Jacob Wickenkamp, Nick Yutzy, Ben Dentlinger and Bryce Robison.~Zack LasekLasek is a freshman from Highland and was the leader in scoring for the Huskies. He had 368 points, averaging 15.3 points per game. He connected on 68.7 percent from ...

Fairfield?s Hunter Drish leaped 19 feet, capturing fifth place in the Long Jump at the 30-team Central College Boys High School Track and Field Meet in Pella on Friday.?We found out the Long Jump will be a very good event for Hunter,? said Trojan head coach Brian Dunlap. ?That was one of our big highlights of the night.?And there were plenty of highlights.Trojan Leone Gichure-Marira leaped 18-7.5, finishing ...