Trustees of the Mt. Pleasant Municipal Utilities will receive updates on the Grand Avenue LED street-lighting and Union Block upgrade projects during their regular monthly meeting Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the utilities office.Other tentative agenda items include a well #6 repair project upgrade.
City of Mt. Pleasant offices and City Hall will be closed Monday, Feb. 17, in observance of Presidents? Day.Garbage pickup will be one day later next week.
Students at Harlan Elementary School in Mt. Pleasant are being taught to follow their dreams.To aid in the process, the school district is inviting people from the community to share their expertise on what it takes to be what you want as an adult.Some Iowa Wesleyan College gridders, top photo, recently visited with the students. Pictured from left are Chase Tackett, Chase Taylor, Ronnis Kaesburg, Jory Simms ...
By BROOKS TAYLOR Mt. Pleasant NewsShipley Construction trucks and equipment will be dominate the eastern edge of Mt. Pleasant this summer as the Burlington construction firm was awarded the bid for the Iris Street reconstruction project.Shipley had a year hiatus last summer after spending the previous three summers in Mt. Pleasant reconstructing Washington Street?s passage through the community.There were ...
By TRISHA PHELPSMt. Pleasant News NEW LONDON ? The weather may have forced New London Community School District to let out early on Tuesday, but the New London City Council wasn?t afraid of a little snow. They held their regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday night.The council approved a quote from Electronic Engineering for $17,477.00 to replace the tornado siren in town.The quote includes a siren, motor ...
By TRISHA PHELPS Mt. Pleasant News WAYLAND ? Financial matters dominated most of Wednesday night?s Wayland city council meeting, including the fiscal year 2013 annual examination report, setting a public hearing date to approve a fiscal year 2014 budget amendment and passing a resolution establishing the Wayland Industrial Park East capital project funds for streets and infrastructure.In the annual examinatio...
NEW LONDON ? New London City Council members will discuss increasing sewer rates during their regular council meeting tonight at 6:30 p.m. at City Hall.Other tentative agenda items include discuss and taking action on using the Casey?s building on East Main Street for the public works shop; discussing the fiscal 2015 budget and approving a quote for replacing a tornado siren.
BURLINGTON ? A Mediapolis man was killed in a one-vehicle accident Feb. 1, according to the Des Moines County Sheriff?s Office.Michael Loyal Butler, 51, was a passenger in a vehicle driven by Dan Allen Miller, 46, Mediapolis, according to the press release.The accident happened at approximately 1 a.m. at the intersection of U.S. Highway 61 and Memorial Park Road.Butler was pronounced dead at the scene and ...
INVESTIGATIONSJessie Anthony Rios, 19, Mt. Pleasant, was cited at the 400 block of East Madison Street for drug equipment violation paraphernalia, Jan. 29. MISCELLANEOUSTheft ? 400 block of East Madison Street, Jan. 29.Theft ? 1700 block of East Washington Street, Jan. 29.Animal complaint ? 900 block of East Mapleleaf Drive, Jan. 29.Suspicious person, activity, vehicle ? 900 block of East Monroe Street, ...
Henry County unemployment increased by a half percentage point in December 2013 to 4.8 percent, according to statistics released this week by Iowa Workforce Development (IWD). The county?s unemployment in November 2013 was 4.3 percent.IWD lists the county?s workforce at 8,870 employees with 450 of that number classified as unemployed.Although statewide unemployment fell from 4.3 percent in November 20123 to 4.2 ...
As a result of an investigation of an alleged robbery at gunpoint in Winfield, two people were arrested and charged with delivery of a controlled substance (marijuana) and three people charged with second-degree robbery.On Friday, Jan. 24 at approximately 2:30 a.m., Shane Yetter, 27, New London, and Trevor French, 20, Burlington, alerted the Winfield Police Department that they had allegedly been robbed at ...
BRIGHTON (AP) ? A major renovation of Lake Darling in eastern Iowa is nearing an end and state officials say reopening is planned for this summer.The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says the lake will begin impounding water once again when gates are closed during a ceremony at 10 a.m. Feb. 12. That will mark the end of a more than $12 million project to renovate the lake and surrounding park.A grand ...
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