After a four-year absence, New London is returning to the Class 1A State Volleyball Tournament. The Tigers advanced to state with a four-set victory over Iowa Valley of Marengo Wednesday night in Washington.Ranked fifth in the state, Maureen Heath?s Tigers meetfourth-ranked Tripoli (26-13) in the opening round of the eight-team tournament Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 6 p.m. at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar ...
Henry County?s Conservation Board meets Monday, Nov. 10, to hear an update on footbridge repairs.Other tentative agenda items include Nature Center siding, donated material for hunting blinds and the naturalist?s report.The meeting is at 6 p.m. in the board meeting room in the conservation office at Oakland Mills.The meeting is open to the public.
Lightning hung around Southeast Iowa again Monday night, and once again didn?t leave before causing problems for area football teams.Fairfield?s game vs. Mount Pleasant, rescheduled from last Friday, has been moved to tonight at 7 p.m. ? weather permitting. Players were able to take the field, and the national anthem was sung Monday before lightning in the south became too much to ignore. The game was officially
HENRY COUNTY SUPERVISOR Marc Lindeen, R* 4,096Mary Hoyer, D 2,508 STATE REPRESENTATIVE ? DISTRICT 84 Dave Heaton, R* 4,979Lee Harder, IND 1,106 UNITED STATES SENATE Jody Ernst, R 4,011Bruce Braley, D 2,317Bob Quast, BTL 42Rick Steward, IND 173Douglas Butzier, LIB 48Ruth Smith, NP 40 GOVERNOR-LT. GOVERNOR Terry Branstad-Kim Reynolds, R* 4,464Jack Hatch-Monica Vernon, D 2,060Jonathan Narcisse-...
Incumbent Republicans Marc Lindeen (county supervisor) and Dave Heaton (state representative) triumphed in the county contested races on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.Lindeen, Mt. Pleasant, defeated Salem's Mary Hoyer, 4,096-2,508 while Heaton, Mt. Pleasant, cruised to a 4,979-1,106 victory over Lee Harder of Hillsboro in the State Representative District 84 voting.County results from some of the major ...
By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant NewsWhen it comes to the ballot box, it greatly helps to be a Republican if running for public office in Henry County.Incumbent county Supervisor Marc Lindeen of Mt. Pleasant is well aware of that.?You never know what to expect,? Lindeen said after watching the tally that showed him with a 4,096-2,508 (62-38 percent) victory over Democrat challenger Mary Hoyer of Salem. ?I don?t ...
For the record, there was no point aside from the final minutes Friday night that I considered the game to be even close to over.I?ve watched enough sports in my day, and, in particular, an adequate amount of high school events the last few years, that I can count on things changing with so much time left on the clock. The bad news was that Central Clinton scored so quick to start the game, and at the same time, the
OSKALOOSA ? The Pekin girls? cross-country team showed exactly why it is the top-ranked team in all of Class 1A while the boys? team showed why hopes are high for 2010 with its heap of returning runners.The Panthers won the girls? division of the Lake Keomah Invite with an impressive score of 25, and the boys came up just two points short of doing the same with a final tally of 47. The Panthers were second behind
KEOSAUQUA ? At long last, area cross country teams heard the sound of a starting gun Tuesday night.Following last Thursday?s rain-out in Ottumwa, runners finally ran their first race of 2010 at the Van Buren Invite at Riverview Country Club in Keosauqua.The Fairfield boys and girls? teams both picked up second-place team finishes in the AA division. The Trojan girls fought off its top Southeast Conference
MUSCATINE ? The Fairfield swim team finished third out of six teams at the Muscatine Invite Saturday.The Trojans scored 243 points while the host Muskies won the event with 429 and Williamsburg scored 287.Jaci Bell won the first of three events on the day for Fairfield with a first-place finish in diving. To edge out her Tipton opponent, Bell completed a back sommersault with a 1.5 twist for a difficulty score of
NEW LONDON ? For the second year in a row, it took a deficit for the Cardinal football team to find its way against Winfield-Mount Union.Last year, the Comets fell behind 14-0 before rallying to a 21-14 win, but Friday night, a 22-0 halftime deficit was too much to overcome and Cardinal fell 29-14 to drop to 0-2 on the season. Trailing by three scores entering the third quarter, Cardinal marched right down the field
PACKWOOD ? Pekin fumbled on its first possession, and things didn?t get any better from there.Eight Panther turnovers during Friday?s game vs. Mediapolis turned into a 33-6 loss for Pekin in its home opener.One week removed from playing a smash-mouth Sigourney-Keota squad, Pekin faced the Mediapolis spread attack and once again didn?t offer much resistance. Bulldog quarterback Jesse Ertz hit 14 of his 19 pass
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