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BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsAction was scant at Tuesday?s Henry County Board of Supervisors meeting. County Engineer Jake Hotchkiss?s weekly report was the only discussion item.Hotchkiss updated the board on activities of the secondary roads crew and construction projects.He said the 220th Street project is progressing. The project includes the removal of six miles of existing pavement and repaving the ...

FORT MADISON ? Mitch Garrels won the 195-pound title at the Fort Madison Invitational Saturday, leading Van Buren to an eighth-place finish out of 10 teams. The Warriors tallied 65 points.Unity Daugherty (106), Jesse Fuller (145) and Dakota LaRue (182) all finished fifth for Van Buren.The Warriors are off until the Van Buren Invitational scheduled Jan. 5.

ELDON ? Pekin couldn?t miss from the field Thursday. Neither could Cardinal.In the end, though, it came down to who hit their free throws.Pekin junior Petie Clubb hit four straight free throws in the closing minutes Thursday, lifting the Panthers to a wild 97-90 double-overtime victory in front of a raucous crowd in Eldon.Clubb was 13 of 16 from the charity stripe with 21 points, and Pekin came back from ...

SULLY ? Cardinal?s Sam Schmidt rolled to the 220-pound championship match and a second-place finish at a wrestling tournament in Lynnville-Sully on Saturday.Schmidt was joined on the podium by teammates Ryan Cale (113) and Josh Ramos (170), both of whom finished third.The Comets wrap up 2012 with a double-dual at Eddyville-Blakesburg Tuesday.

IOWA CITY (AP) ? Freshman Mike Gesell was Iowa?s future point guard long before he even joined the Hawkeyes.But just seven games into what many thought would be a four-year stint, Gesell has ceded his position to an unlikely classmate.Coach Fran McCaffery hasn?t lost faith in Gesell ? not by a long shot. It?s just that fellow freshman Anthony Clemmons has been a revelation as the primary ball handler for the ...

The Fairfield youth basketball program is hosting a tournament for girls and boys in grades five through eight this weekend at Pence Elementary, Fairfield Middle School and Fairfield High School.The girls? tournament is on Saturday and the boys? tournament is scheduled Sunday. A total of 31 boys? teams and 33 girls? teams will be competing in the tournament.Admission is $4 for adults, $2 for students and free ...

A two-vehicle accident Saturday at the intersection of Walnut and Washington Streets in Mt. Pleasant resulted in a citation being issued to one of the motorists.According to the Mt. Pleasant Police Department?s accident report, Stephanie Ford, of Solon, was operating a 2008 Nissan westbound on Washington Street when a 2004 Mercury, driven by Daniel Donald, of Mt. Pleasant, attempted to make a left turn onto ...

PACKWOOD ? The Pekin girls? basketball team bounced back from its first loss in December with another win, a 41-40 nail-biter vs. IMS on Tuesday.Leslie Stone scored a team-high 10 points for the Panthers, who rallied back from a 22-19 halftime deficit. Pekin scored 13 points in the third quarter to take a 30-29 lead, then held on for the win with a nine-point fourth period.Also for Pekin, Beth Atwood scored ...