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Council adopts new building and zoning department fees

N/A News Sep. 30, 2018 10:01 pm2563d ago

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News Routine items dominated Tuesday's meeting of the Mt. Pleasant City Council. Action items had the council approving a fiscal 2018 budget amendment, adopting an ordinance amending fees of the building and zoning, and parks and recreation departments, passing a proposed no-parking ordinance to a second reading and approving a change order on a bar screen improvement record.Upon ...

Your Friend on the Front Page

N/A News Sep. 30, 2018 10:01 pm2563d ago

Every week, the Mt. Pleasant News will feature a Henry County resident in a profile snapshot. The questions will appear in bold.This week's 'Friend on the Front Page' Steve Mendenhall, who you may know from Signs and Designs, Ltd.Are you originally from Mt. Pleasant or Henry County? If not, what brought you here? I was born and raised in Mt. Pleasant.What do you do in town?I have owned and operated Signs and ...

Black dirt is disappearing, expert says

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News Sep. 30, 2018 10:01 pm2563d ago

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News Remember those drives through the Iowa countywide several decades ago? Black dirt dominated what just a few months ago were fields of corn and soybeans.Turn the calendar to today and fields of plowed black dirt are disappearing.?If you go back 40 years ago, you are going to see a black surface on row-crop fields this time of the year,? recalled Virgil Schmitt, an agronomist ...

Fire training

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News Sep. 30, 2018 10:01 pm2563d ago

The Mt. Pleasant Fire Department honed their emergency response skills recently during a training day earlier this month. Crews battled a controlled blaze to help them prepare for future fires.

New London installing cameras on school buses, citing safety precaution

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News Sep. 30, 2018 10:01 pm2563d ago

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? As an extra safety precaution and to monitor behavior, the New London Community School District is installing cameras on all six of their school buses.One camera will be pointed at the speedometer, one will have a view of the ?Stop? arm on the side of the bus and another will have a better view of the bus as a whole, said Chad Wahls, District Superintendent for New ...

New London mulls 8-man football option

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News Sep. 30, 2018 10:01 pm2563d ago

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? The parents of New London middle and high school football players are unsure whether or not moving to 8-man from 11-man football is a good idea, but for now, they're more concerned whether or not this will help their athletes be the best they can be.In an open forum on Tuesday, Nov. 21, in the New London High School auditorium, parents and community members ...

WACO seeks additional allowable growth

N/A News Sep. 30, 2018 10:00 pm2563d ago

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News WAYLAND ? Small school districts always are on the lookout for additional financial resources.Count the WACO Community School District in the group. During Monday night's regular board meeting, directors approved submitting an application to the School Budget Review Committee for nearly a $110,000 in allowable growth.Allowable growth is synonymous with spending authority. ...

Area lawmaker says mental health needs to be priority in New London school district

N/A News Sep. 30, 2018 10:00 pm2563d ago

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? With the holidays around the corner and the New Year on the horizon, the New London School Board invited lawmaker Dave Heaton to discuss with them the legislative priorities for education in 2018 during their meeting on Monday, Nov. 20.Heaton, with Iowa House District 84, said that he doesn't yet have a feel for what this next legislative session is going to look ...

DHS appoints new Iowa Medicaid director

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News Sep. 30, 2018 10:00 pm2563d ago

Gazette Des Moines Bureau DES MOINES ? Michael Randol has been appointed to direct Iowa's Medicaid Enterprise, officials with the state Department of Human Services announced Friday.Randol is slated to begin his new duties on Dec. 4. He holds a master of business administration degree from William Woods University with an emphasis on finance, as well as a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the ...

Wayland?s Thanksgiving brings community together ?in a powerful way?

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Community Sep. 30, 2018 10:00 pm2563d ago

By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News As families plan Thanksgiving in their homes this year, Alicia Lemon was tasked to plan the now 14-year tradition of Wayland's Community Thanksgiving.It was back in 2004 when Greg Stacy was starting a church plant in his barn that he was ?inspired by God? to further the endeavor by hosting an all-community Thanksgiving. Looking for a neutral location, he approached the WACO ...

Input sought on Washington?s wellness park concept

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News Sep. 30, 2018 10:00 pm2563d ago

By David Hotle, The JOURNAL WASHINGTON ? While the basic design of the proposed Wellness Park to be constructed on 46 acres along Fifth Street and North D Avenue is complete, builders still want input from the people of Washington on the amenities to be constructed into the park.During a public meeting Monday evening in the Washington Public Library, MSA developers, who are working with the city to design the ...

Mt. Pleasant High School students learn more than just construction skills on site

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News Sep. 30, 2018 10:00 pm2563d ago

By Morrgan Bouler, Mt. Pleasant News Intern Mt. Pleasant High School seniors are currently building a house from the ground up, while gaining some valuable skills along the way.Dressed in sweatshirts, hats, and gloves to combat the winter cold, nine seniors are getting a bird's-eye view of a small suburban neighborhood as they work on the roof of 1812 S. Meadowview Ave. As they work, echoes from their tools ...