Obituaries

The Henry County Treasurer?s Office will be closed all day Thursday, May 15, for staff training.The office will resume normal business hours on Friday, May 16.

PACKWOOD ? Paige Jensen stepped in to deliver ten assists and Pekin got back on track Thursday with a 25-23, 25-18, 25-19 sweep of Columbus.?I?m proud of the way the girls came out and played tonight,? said head coach Jina Heisdorffer, whose team improves to 10-12 on the seaosn. ?We came out and were in control most of the night. We covered the court well and attacked the ball.?Jessica Deutsch added eight more

AMES ? Iowa State University?s Department of Sociology will be compiling its third statewide survey in 2014.ISU also compiled surveys in 1994 and 2004 based on responses from almost 15,000 residents living in 99 Iowa rural communities.Called the Rural Development Initiative (RDI) Project in 1994, it was jointly supported by ISU?s Experiment Station and Extension Service to establish a baseline of living ...

AMES ? Many small towns in Iowa struggle to survive even though they offer quality of life features that are hard to find in big cities. Understanding these unique features is the goal of a new Iowa State University study. Researchers (Drs. Terry Besser, Stephen Sapp, Deborah Tootle, and Georgeanne Artz) have received a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to study the quality of life in ...

Bill Bare of Mt. Pleasant, a volunteer with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), has been honored by the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service (ICVS) for his volunteer service with RSVP.Bare was nominated by Carol Dustman, Henry County RSVP director, for the honor.He averages 25 hours per month in the medical transportation program, driving individuals to medical appointments. ?He is an unrelenting ...

By MEGAN COOPER Mt. Pleasant NewsThe first major project for the Henry County engineer was a success.During Tuesday?s Henry County Board of Supervisors meeting county engineer Jake Hotchkiss informed the board that his first major project since he?s been engineer went well.The project (project 86) took place on 195th Street and the engineer and his crew had to replace a culvert. It was a week-long project ...

Area vintage car enthusiasts hosted their first car show of the season Friday night on the Mt. Pleasant square. As usual the vehicles and engines glistened in the evening sunshine. Other ?cruise? nights are July 11, Aug. 18 and Sept. 12.

FAIRFIELD (GTNS) ? The Fairfield School Board will be interviewing five or six superintendent candidates this week, culled from 11 candidates narrowed from 60 applicants received by the search team, Ray and Associates, to replace superintendent Art Sathoff.The interviews will be in closed session as allowed by Iowa Code and as requested by the candidates.Based on results from this week?s interviews, two ...

There is a new business in town.Old World Victorian Treasures, on the southeast corner of the Mt. Pleasant square at 201 South Jefferson Street, offers customers the unique experience of shopping and a history lesson.?Every piece in the store that we have purchased ? from here to the East Coast ? has a story,? said Brenda Wambold, who owns the store along with her husband, Brian Wambold.?We have been collecting...

By MEGAN COOPER Mt. Pleasant NewsAll is not well with roads in the county according to some Henry County residents.During Tuesday?s Henry County Board of Supervisors meeting Rick, Dick and Linda Smith approached the board with a concern they had about the roads near their properties.?I want it on record that I?m not happy with what is going on with the roads out there,? said Rick Smith. ?We have 20 of our ...