Obituaries

Numerous federal, state and local government offices will be closed Friday for the July 4th weekend.The City of Mt. Pleasant offices will be closed Friday, July 3.Mt. Pleasant?s compost site, located behind Saunders Park, will be closed Saturday, July 4th.In observance of the July 4th holiday, area recyclers will be closed on Friday, July 3.The Des Moines County Regional Landfill and the HazChem Center will ...

By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant NewsNow a college, soon a university.Steve Titus, president of Iowa Wesleyan College, announced in a letter this week to college alumni that IWC will become IWU, effective Aug. 10.In essence, the college is taking a step back in time ? name-wise, that is ? as it was a university from 1855-1912 before returning to its college status.Titus said the college?s board of trustees ...

People thronged to Central Park in Mt. Pleasant on Friday, June 19, for the first ?Rock Around the Block? event of the summer. The event included live music, food, games galore and the widely anticipated kids? pedal pull.Peninah Pidgeon, 2, smiles at her family in the photo after she finishes the pedal pull.

Saturday?s powerful thunderstorm, which spawned two tornadoes in the county, caused a lot of tree and limb damage. A locust tree, pictured, was uprooted at the corner of North Lincoln and East Harlan streets.

By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant NewsTwo people were injured Saturday evening during what Henry County Emergency Management Director Walt Jackson termed a bizarre night.?It was kind of a bizarre night because it isn?t often you have two tornadoes touch down within a half hour of each other in different parts of the county,? Jackson noted.The National Weather Service (NWS), according to Jackson, confirmed that ...

Lydia Jo Allen, who will be a senior at Mt. Pleasant Community High School in the fall, will participate in a program sponsored by the University of Iowa?s business school that introduces students from underrepresented groups to higher education and business education.The Gateway Project will be held June 22 to June 26 at UI?s Tippie College of Business, and will give 30 soon-to-be high school seniors a taste of ...

Rebekah Kimzey, daughter of Mark and Linda Kimzey, of Mt. Pleasant, was named to the President?s List at Simpson College in Indianola for the spring semester.To be named to the President?s List, a student must have a GPA of 4.0.Megan Myers, daughter of Michael and Tracy Myers, of Burlington; Madysinn Crull, daughter of Carrie Hobbs and Mark Crull, of Mt. Pleasant; and Brianne Potts, daughter of Michael and ...

Green and red with some orange mixed in were the dominant colors in the region Monday. That?s because the WMT-Radio Great Eastern Iowa Tractorcade is in the midst of a three-day tour of southeastern Iowa. On Monday, the tractors rolled through Danville, West Point and New London. Today?s route includes Salem, Keosauqua and Houghton. Wednesday?s final day of the tour is a trip to Wayland. In the photo, tractors ...

Mt. Pleasant City Council members will act on a resolution approving employee salaries for fiscal 2015-16 during the council?s regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in City Hall.The council will also host a public hearing on the proposed vacation and sale of an alley adjacent to property owned by Ken Reschly.A second public hearing will be on the sale of a lot at 308 N. Hamlin St.Other tentative agenda items ...

The Milestones Area Agency on Aging Advisory Board will meet at 10 a.m. June 16 in the ICN room of the Columbus Junction Library.Residents of Henry, Appanoose, Clinton, Davis, Des Moines, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Lucas, Mahaska, Monroe, Muscatine, Scott, Van Buren, Wapello and Wayne counties are encouraged to attend.