Many shoppers decided to stay local this past weekend when opening their wallets. Above, a group of shoppers from Keokuk decided to stop by Lillian Grace during Small Business Saturday.
By Karyn Spory, Mt. Pleasant News Deb Gorham flitted around the displays in Lillian Grace on Saturday, picking up items and motioning to her family members, asking if they liked the color or cut. This was how Gorham, a Keokuk native, believes Christmas shopping should be done.Gorham was traveling with three family members, hitting all of the unique boutiques in Southeast Iowa on Saturday, which during the long ...
By Grace King, Mt. Pleasant News Cars slowly but steadily crept into Orscheln Farm and Home and Peebles parking lot 10 minutes before 6 a.m. on Black Friday. Peebles, expecting customers lined up at the door for their limited scratch-off deals, saw only about a dozen customers in their first hour of opening.The real action was Thursday afternoon, where both Peebles and Wal-Mart were constantly busy the first ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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