Obituaries

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News Offenders at the Mt. Pleasant Correctional Facility soon will be employed at West Liberty Foods, Henry County supervisors learned during their meeting Thursday.Dan Clark, director of Iowa Prison Industries, told the board that West Liberty Foods approached him about employing offenders. ?West Liberty Foods has asked us about employing incarcerated offenders. They said they ...

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News A curious raccoon was the cause of a power outage during the early morning hours on Thursday, June 15, 2017.Jack Hedgecock, Mt. Pleasant Municipal Utilities general manager, said the high profile system outage occurred at 4 a.m. Thursday morning and impacted approximately 2,000 customers in the northern half of the city.?The cause was due to a raccoon that climbed on top of ...

Van Buren County will hold their second annual Bible Reading Marathon the last Sunday of June. It will be at the VB courthouse lawn, Sunday, June 25, from 1 to 5 p.m., when the Bible will be read out loud from Genesis through Revelation. Each reader will be assigned a few specific chapters to avoid duplication so that all 66 books will be read that afternoon. Please bring your own Bible, lawn chair and water. For ...

By Ed Tibbetts, Quad City Times Federal crop insurance payments have long been a target for budget cutters, but the proposed reductions in the Trump administration?s 2018 budget exceed what came previously.Midwest lawmakers say they don?t think the cuts have much, if any, chance of becoming law. But some groups say this will be a place to watch when a new farm bill is written next year.The Trump administration...

James Harlan Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution met Saturday morning, June 10, 2017, at the Presbyterian Church in Mt. Pleasant. Twenty-one attended, including guest Penny Cammack of Pipestone, Minnesota, formerly of Salem.Regent Barbara Welander led the opening rituals, followed by a short business meeting. Vice-Regent Gayle Olson and Sylvia Blaesing reported on their attendance at the Iowa State ...

By Christina Crippes, Waterloo Courier CEDAR FALLS -- Robert Donley said he never intended to stay in Iowa for nine years after taking the job as Iowa Board of Regents executive director and chief executive officer, in explaining why he is now resigning from that position.He planned to commit for about three years of his contract, maybe up to five years. But now as he?s moving on, he?s ready to be closer to ...

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News MT. UNION ? Henry County supervisors said they would be back, and they kept their promise by hosting a second community meeting Wednesday night at the Mt. Union Community Building.Supervisors met with Mt. Union residents in April at the United Methodist Church and said they would return to update the community on proceedings with the discontinuation process.The supervisors ...

By Bryce Kelly, Mt. Pleasant News It has been roughly two years since members of the Mt. Pleasant First United Methodist Church have been actively reading to local elementary school children, and volunteers say they aren?t going to stop something that is already working so well.Members of the Mt. Pleasant First United Methodist Church have been participating in the ?Change a Child?s Story? program, a statewide ...

The Mt. Pleasant Kiwanis Club hosted a Pancake and Sausage Breakfast March 26 and 27, at the Wright Family Pavilion during the Greater Iowa Swap Meet. All the proceeds from the breakfast will go to helping local children in the community.

By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News The 2017 legislative session was not as bad as Rep. Dave Heaton (R-Mt. Pleasant) had imagined it would be. The same can?t be said for Sen. Rich Taylor (D-Mt. Pleasant).Heaton and Taylor met with constituents in the International Room in Chadwick Library on the Iowa Wesleyan University campus Saturday morning for the final Legislative Breakfast of the season. The breakfast had ...