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By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News Although people may not have flown in to Tuesday night?s ?Wings in the Spring,? several hundred area residents flocked to Mt. Pleasant?s Central Park for the Main Street Mt. Pleasant-sponsored chicken-wing cooking event.Downtown was alive, many of those attending agreed.Lisa Oetken, director of Main Street Mt. Pleasant, was ecstatic with the turnout. ?There wasn?t much else ...

By Rod Boshart, Gazette Des Moines Bureau DES MOINES ? Gov. Kim Reynolds is planning a July reunion with her former boss, U.S. Ambassador Terry Branstad ? in China.Reynolds announced Tuesday she will be leading an all-Iowa agriculture trade mission to China that will begin July 19 and run until July 28. Traveling with her will be officials from commodity groups representing Iowa?s corn, soybean, pork, beef, ...

A Mt. Pleasant man faces 16 charges including two felonies following a high-speed chase on May 26.Derek Lankford was charged with possession with intent to deliver more than five grams of methamphetamine, a Class B felony, eluding, a Class D felony and 14 additional traffic charges, according to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department.At 5:54 p.m. on May 26, police attempted to stop a 1998 Mitsubishi Galant on ...

By James Q. Lynch, The Gazette Iowa Republicans, jealously protective of their first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses, are showing little concern about California?s plans to move up its presidential primary in order to be a factor in the presidential nomination process.?More and more people want to be more relevant,? Republican National Committee member Steve Scheffler said.Scheffler, who is from Iowa, doubts ...

The Rev. Mark Spring, who serves Catholic churches in Ft. Madison and Montrose, will be the keynote speaker at the Avenue of Flags and Henry County Veterans Memorial Committee-sponsored Memorial Day observance Monday, May 29, at 10:30 a.m. in the Mt. Pleasant Community High School gymnasium.The Rev. Spring is a retired chaplain (captain) from the United States Air Force.Memorial Day activities actually begin ...

Two recent traffic stops by Henry County Sheriff?s deputies resulted in three arrests on various charges.Deputies on May 16 conducted a traffic stop in the 2300 grid of U.S. Highway 218. Following the stop, Hollie Brake was arrested for driving under suspension and possession of drug paraphernalia.A passenger in the vehicle ? Robert Krieger ? was arrested for possession of a controlled substance-third or ...

By Erin Murphy, Lee Des Moines Bureau DES MOINES ? People with serious and chronic health conditions that require high-cost medical care could be placed in high-risk insurance pools under health care reforms under construction in Congress.Iowa has operated a high-risk insurance program for nearly three decades.But expert opinions as to whether a return to high-risk pools for those people with pre-existing ...

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News You don?t have to be an artist or a writer to know the two forms of expression are joined at the hip, Jennifer New, a published author from Iowa City told Mt. Pleasant Community High School students Monday in instructor Rebecca Bos?s art classes.New has authored three books and has been writing for 15 years. During that time, she has spoken to art and English classes in ...