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Note: All meals served with milk.Mt. Pleasant Community SchoolsMONDAY: May 20: Chicken tetrazzini, breadstick, tossed salad/romaine, baby carrots, strawberriesTUESDAY: May 21: Sausage egg biscuit, tritator, green pepper slices, kiwiWEDNESDAY: May 22: Pork rib patty/bun, garden spinach salad, baked beans, banana, chipsTHURSDAY: May 23: Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes/bread/jelly, fresh broccoli, peachesFRIDA...

DEAR ABBY: I am a divorcee with college-aged children. I love my children, and I thought I loved my ex. However, after my divorce I wonder if I?m capable of loving anyone other than my children again.Two years after the divorce I started a relationship with a man who is 10 years older. He had recently ended a long-term dating/living together relationship. I wasn?t particularly drawn to him, but he was very ...

The first pour of concrete on the Grand Avenue reconstruction project is planned today. Mike Nelson concrete placed steel reinforcing yesterday on the west side of Grand Avenue from Baker Street to just south of Ash Street.Concrete trucks will enter the project on the frontage road east of Grand Avenue. The trucks will travel south on the frontage road to the Baker Street/Grand Avenue intersection and travel ...

A Wayland man was killed in a two-vehicle accident at 8:15 a.m. Monday at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and old Highway 34.Bobby Ethan Mattocks, 41, Wayland, was southbound on Franklin Avenue in a 2001 Ford F150 when his vehicle was struck by a 2009 Kenworth, driven by Dale Eugene Loving, 68, New London, and registered to Fedler and Company.According to the Iowa State Patrol?s accident report, Loving?s ...

DEAR ABBY: My wife?s niece is marrying a wonderful man of Greek descent this summer. Her grandfather insists that his last name is too long and impossible to pronounce. He thinks they need to change the name when they marry. He went so far as to make them call him so he could tell them what he wanted. Then he gave them 10 days to ?think about it? and call him back with their answer.He told the mother of the ...

Janel Barnes, a Luther College senior from Mt. Pleasant, was inducted into the Luther chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa national academic honor society at a ceremony held Sunday, April 28 in the Noble Recital Hall on the Luther campus.Barnes is the daughter of Layne and Judy Barnes of Mt. Pleasant. She is a graduate of Mt. Pleasant Community High School and is majoring in statistics at Luther.

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach is bringing STEM Academy ?RoboTech? to the youth of Southeast Iowa this June. Youth who have completed sixth, seventh or eighth grade are welcome to register for this hands-on opportunity to build robots and learn about science, technology, math and engineering (STEM).There are two sessions to choose from, June 10-13 at the Louisa County Fairgrounds or June 17-20 at ...

Nate Allred and Heather Hughes, both of Mt. Pleasant, were members of a five-member team of culinary art students from Indian Hills Community College that received bronze medals for their third place finish in the Knowledge Bowl Competition at the recent American Culinary Federation Central Regional Conference in Little Rock, Ark.The day-long competition was done in a Jeopardy game-style format and consisted of ...