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KEOSAUQUA ? The Van Buren track team was the winner of six different events at the Van Buren Invite Thursday evening and cruised to the team title on its home track.Ryne Smith was responsible for three of those wins and Spencer Watson claimed two more to lead the Warriors.Smith easily won the high jump (5? 10?) as well as the 110-high (16.56) and 400-low hurdle (1:02.77) events.Watson picked up gold in ...

Members of the Mt. Pleasant City Council?s Personnel and Finance Committee will meet Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 8:30 a.m. in City Hall.Tentative agenda items include discussion of electrical insepction and borrowing bond money.

As area track and field teams dive into their early-season schedules this week, Fairfield golf, soccer and tennis season openers are in sight.The Fairfield boys? soccer team will travel to Albia for a JV and varsity contest Friday night before hosting Centerville for a boy-girl doubleheader at Trojan Stadium Monday.The Trojan boys? golf team will also open things up Monday with a trip to the Keokuk Country ...

By KARYN SPORY Mt. Pleasant NewsOn Wednesday, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a statement saying influenza has reached an epidemic status. The same is true for here in Henry County.Travis Johnson, Community Health Director for Henry County Health Center, said the HCHC emergency room and the family medicine clinic, which is an independent operation, have both seen a high number of influenza cases ...

PELLA ? The Fairfield girls? track and field team continued its indoor preseason schedule at the Central Indoor in Pella Thursday night.Sydney Howard starred for the Trojans as she came up with a winning time of 7.2 seconds in the 55-meter dash. The sophomore also led off the second-place 4x200 relay before handing off to a trio of freshmen ? Huma Liptak, Whitney Engle and Hanna Greiner. The quartet finished in

Southeast Iowa was a hotbed for some of the best wrestlers in the state in 2011, and Golden Triangle wrestlers were up with the best piling up wins.New London?s Sawyer Farris and Fairfield?s Dakota Simmons lead the 2011 All-Golden Triangle News Service team after wrestling in front of 15,000 fans for a shot at a state title last month. Both happened to run into opponents who hadn?t lost all season and they were

WAVERLY ? Packwood native and current Wartburg star Jordan Sathoff was named to the all-Iowa Conference basketball first team released this week.Sathoff joined Warburg?s 1,000-point club this season as led the Knights with 424 points (17.2 per game), 173 rebounds (7.2 per game), 29 blocked shots and a 52.7 percent field goal percentage.The junior finished the season with 13-straight double-figure scoring games.Satho

DES MOINES ? IMS senior Ethan Gingerich got a shot to tie Monday?s Class 1A state quarterfinal in the closing seconds, but his 3-pointer clanked off the iron and unranked Guthrie Center held off No. 2 IMS for a 53-49 win.?Right when I shot it I could tell it wasn?t going in,? a dejected Gingerich said after the game. ?I just had a feeling.?IMS had clawed its way back from a 10-point deficit in the final four