FARMINGTON ? The Van Buren volleyball team snapped a five-game losing streak Monday with a decisive 3-0 sweep of Harmony.The Warriorettes took wins by scores of 25-15, 25-23 and 25-21.Hanna Haynes had a team-high 13 kills, and Jordan Billups added 11 digs. Makenzie Zeitler, Haynes and Billups blasted three aces apiece.?The girls played solid tonight and never gave up,? said head coach Bonnie Watson. ?We ...
WAYLAND ? WACO School Board members will consider the approval of a superintendent to serve on a monthly basis during its regular school board meeting Monday at 5:30 p.m. in the media center at the high school.Other tentative agenda items include a public hearing on an Internet safety policy, approval of the audit report and approval of a locker quote for the secondary locker rooms.
With southerly breezes warming temperatures, Lindsey Moeller, left, and Emma Huckabone, right, of Mt. Pleasant couldn?t resist unpacking the kite. Continued moderate temperatures and southerly breezes no doubt will lead to more kite flying.
COLUMBUS JUNCTION ? It was business as usual for Cardinal?s Lindsay Albert at the Columbus Junction Invite Monday.Albert crossed the line in 18:15 to take sixth overall. Also for Cardinal, Emily Miller was 40th (21:42), followed by Jenny Gordy in 55th (26:42), Kelsey Waddle in 56th (31:21) and Elizabeth Denniston in 57th (31:23).For the Cardinal boys, Cody Waddle was the top Comet in 52nd with a clocking of ...
In order to beat Oskaloosa?s single-wing offense, Fairfield head coach Mike Schenck knew his defense would need to force turnovers, penetrate the offensive line and eliminate the big play.The Trojans were able to do two out of three well, recovering two fumbles and tallying several tackles for losses, but it was Oskaloosa running back Adam Rowley and the big play that broke the Trojans? backs Friday at Trojan ...
April is Military Awareness Month and yesterday (April 15), was ?Purple Up Day,? and people were asked to wear purple to show their awareness and support of the military. Dalton Krum, a MPCHS sophomore, was one of the organizers on the local level, urging students and instructors to wear purple. The photo shows the high school students and Todd Liechty, high-school principal, left in back row, and their purple ...
IOWA CITY ? The defending state champion Pekin girls? cross country team didn?t disappoint in its tuneup for the postseason at the Bud Williams Invitational Thursday.Pekin scored 55 points and finished second, only behind host school Iowa City High?s 20. Ottumwa was third with 72 points.Celsey Conger won the race, finishing 16 seconds ahead of the second-place runner with a clocking of 14:57. It was her ...
Henry County?s Habitat for Humanity Chapter will reach a milestone Sunday, April 18, breaking ground on its 25th house. The house is located at 506 S. Bittersweet St. at Heather Estates (behind FCOC) in Mt. Pleasant. The ceremony begins at 2:30 p.m.
Engineers for the Iris Street reconstruction project say they don?t anticipate closing the Monroe and Iris streets intersection until the week of April 27.However, starting next week, traffic on North Iris Street will be reduced to one lane and there will be flaggers to help direct traffic.The reason for traffic reduction to one lane is that Jones Contracting will begin setting up and pouring the recreational ...
Beginning April 28, all court filings in Henry, Jefferson and Louisa counties are required to be filed electronically.If you are a filer, please consider attending one of the following open houses:Tuesday, April 21 ? 1:30-4:30 p.m., Louisa County Courthouse.Wednesday, April 22 ? 9 a.m.-noon Henry County Courthouse; 1:30-4:30 p.m. ? Jefferson Country Courthouse.
FORT MADISON ? Tony Zapata gained more than 200 yards on the ground, and the Fairfield Middle School seventh-grade ?A? football team broke into the win column Tuesday.The Trojans beat the Bloodhounds in Fort Madison 22-8 to improve to 1-2 on the season.Zapata carried the ball 19 times for 222 yards, was a perfect 4-of-4 passing for 37 yards and scored all three touchdowns for the ?A? team, including one ...
A dry week has been unusual for the North Iris Street reconstruction project, and Shipley Construction took advantage of no rain this week to progress on the remainder of the project, which began last summer. Infrastructure, namely sanitary sewer pipe, can be seen in the foreground. In recent years, the city has been replacing infrastructure when needed while doing street projects. Reconstruction remaining on ...
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