Sports

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News Lock your doors, establish a rapport with your neighbors and be vigilant.Those were the three top tips from Henry County Sheriff Richard McNamee and Mt. Pleasant Police Chief Ron Archer during a ?Crime in Henry County ? How Your Business Can Avoid Becoming a Victim? seminar Thursday at Access Energy. The event was sponsored by the Mt. Pleasant Area Chamber of Commerce ...

By Brooks Taylor, Mt. Pleasant News Directors of the Regional Utility Service Systems (RUSS) were told Wednesday that a 28E agreement is being drafted between RUSS and Henry County concerning now-unincorporated Mt. Union.?We are working on the Henry County/Mt. Union 28E agreement,? informed RUSS Executive Director Bruce Hudson. ?It is 98 percent complete and may be done before the end of the week.?Initially, ...

The Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association has released its All-State teams for the 2014 baseball season.After leading the Trojans to the state tournament on the pitcher?s mound, Fairfield senior Joe Hietpas was given even more accolades for his efforts. Hietpas was given the Lanny Peterson All-Academic Award and was named to the All-State ?Super Team,? which takes the 16 best players in the state ...

Fairfield High School is upping its fundraising efforts prior to the start of the 2014 school year.Like always, the fall sports athletes will disperse around Fairfield for Canvass the Town. This event will take place Tuesday and consist of athletes going door-to-door to sell booster club memberships. There is a silver club, gold club, black club, orange club, Trojan pride club and platinum club, and becoming ...

Ide Gymnastics competed for the first time at the AAU Junior Olympic Nationals in Des Moines, which were held July 23 through Sunday.After four days of competition many of the 14 Ide Gymnastics athletes walked away with medals, including Andrew Twohill, who won three gold medals. Twohill competed in the tumbling, double-mini and trampoline categories.Each of these athletes competes against their own age group ...

Pekin narrowly gets by SigourneySigourney had to defeat Keota 9-8 Monday to have the chance to play Pekin Tuesday in the Class 1A District 11 quarterfinals.Maybe momentum from their first round victory had the Savages (7-20) playing at a high level, because they gave Pekin (19-4) everything it could handle. The Panthers squeaked by with a 1-0 victory.Pekin finished with two hits, which were both from senior ...

A trip to No. 13 Oskaloosa was all that stood in between the Fairfield softball team and a berth in the Class 4A state tournament.The Trojans, however, lost to the Indians 6-0 Tuesday. Fairfield amassed just one hit, and struggled to get into a rhythm.?We?d like to think on a different night we could have done better at the plate,? Fairfield coach Bob Bradfield said. ?But when you have as many popups and ...

DES MOINES (AP) ? Iowa senior Aaron White still can?t quite put his finger on why the Hawkeyes collapsed last season.What White has learned is that the Hawks will need to worry more about their intensity than their expectations in 2014-15.White will enter next season as the face of the program with Devyn Marble?s departure to the NBA. It?ll be a major challenge for White, the leading returning scorer from a ...