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BY KARYN SPORY Mt. Pleasant News *Editor?s note: Candidates? responses were given via a written questionnaire. WAYLAND ? Three of the five seats on the Wayland City Council are up for grabs on Tuesday.Incumbents Greg Rich and Scott Shumacher are looking to renew their terms while Kevin Fort has decided to end his tenure on the council, leaving his seat wide open.Also throwing their hats into the ring are ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Incoming Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says he is against stipends for student-athletes, pointing out that there are other places where they can play for money.Bowlsby also repeated the stance of acting commissioner Chuck Neinas, school presidents and athletic directors that the Big 12 supports a four-team playoff consisting of the highest-ranked teams to determine college football?s ...

PELLA ? Central College?s Tyler Crouse, a senior from Hedrick and former Pekin student, was named to the Capital One Academic All-District men?s track and field/cross country team by the College Sports Information Directors of America.Crouse, a biology major, carried a 3.42 grade point average. He was a first-team all-district pick and advances to the national ballot, to be voted on next week, for Academic ...

BY BROOKS TAYLORMt. Pleasant NewsMM Composite, Inc., Mt. Pleasant?s newest manufacturing plant, hopes to begin production in early November, Henry County Supervisor Gary See said during the supervisors? meeting Thursday. See was reporting on the latest board meeting of the Mt. Pleasant Area Development Corporation.The composite product firm, headquartered in Denmark, is moving its operation in the United ...

CHARITON ? Fairfield baseball surrendered just one run in two games ? 16 innings ? but had no wins to show for it following Wednesday?s doubleheader in Chariton.The host Chargers (6-0-1) prevailed 1-0 in the opening game, and the two teams tied 0-all after nine innings in the second game. The nightcap ended with the tie due to a poorly lit field.?We tried a lot of things to jumpstart the offense, but nothing ...

BY KARYN SPORY Mt. Pleasant News *Editor?s note: Candidates? responses were given via a written questionnaire. NEW LONDON ? The New London City Council has two open seats at the table and four candidates looking to fill them.Of the four candidates, two are incumbents ? Kirk Miller and Tom Davis.Miller is hoping to go for two consecutive terms on the council as fellow incumbent Davis, who entered the ...

Roughly 40 members of the First United Methodist Church, in Mt. Pleasant, gathered together to package over 6,000 meals for Kids Against Hunger on Wednesday night in the church?s Fellowship Hall. The packaged food will be dispersed to starving and malnourished children and their families in developing countries across the world. Meals packaged as part of Kids Against Hunger are specially formulated to provide a ...

Halloween is right around the corner and the Mt. Pleasant Interact Club, pictured above, will be hosting their annual Trick or Treat for Cans event. Any non-perishable foods will be collected from Linden Heights and other communities around town from 5 to 7 p.m., on Halloween. All of the food will then be donated to the Fellowship Cup.