Sports

The Extreme Challenge Super Fight Series Heavyweight Tournament mixed martial arts finale will be at Memorial Auditorium in Burlington on Saturday, Aug. 11, with Mt. Pleasant?s Parnell Davis facing Jason Huebbe.?I am ready,? Davis said.The heavyweight fighter is currently spending some time training at the Alliance MMA gym in Chula Vista, Calif. ? the same gym that UFC fighters like Dominick Cruz, Phil Davis ...

FAIRFIELD (AP) ? Don?t tell Matt Stutzman he can?t do something. Because, chances are, you?re wrong.The 29-year-old Fairfield father of three was born without arms and rejected prosthetics at a very young age. Instead, he learned to do nearly everything with his feet. He eats, drives, brushes his teeth and even changes his sons? diapers with his toes.He also can hit a target dead center with a bow and arrow ...

WASHINGTON ? After WACO?s cross-country program was cut as part of an effort to slash the budget, the school will send its runners to Washington this fall.?Our board dropped our cross-country program, so we were looking for a program to take on our girls,? WACO athletic director Chad Edeker said. ?It gives our upperclassmen a chance to compete, and the younger kids can run JV or maybe step up and help the ...

Registration materials for the Mt. Pleasant fifth and sixth grade tackle football league this fall will be available to pick up registration at the Mt. Pleasant Middle School on Thursday, Aug. 2.

Each school month, Fairfield Elks Lodge sponsors the Fairfield Middle School ?Students of the Month? award to acknowledge positive contributions of the students, such as assisting teachers and peers in classroom activities to displaying characteristics as a role model in and out of the classroom.The Students of the Month certificates are awarded after a nomination and voting process is completed by each grade-lev...

WINFIELD ? Winfield-Mt. Union will be hosting a grand opening cookout in celebration of the school?s brand new patio addition on August 3.The community is welcome to attend the event from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the patio itself, located just south of W-MU's baseball field and west of Winfield?s Prairie Ag Coop. There will be a short presentation about the new patio and how it will serve the community as ...

Football camp will begin Wednesday, Aug. 1, at Mapleleaf Field and will end on Friday, Aug. 3.There is no fee to attend.Any boy in grades 7-12 in the Mt. Pleasant Community School District is welcome.Grades 9-12 will have camp from 8 to 11:30 a.m. and grades 7 and 8 will have camp from 1:30 to 3 p.m.All players must bring a completed physical form or have one on file to be able to participate.All participants...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently found zebra mussels on a sampler in Bluebill Lake. The sampler was placed in the lake specifically to monitor for zebra mussels because of the lake?s proximity to Clear Lake, which has had zebra mussels since 2005. Bluebill Lake is a 40-acre lake located four miles south of Clear Lake.Bluebill Lake is the state?s fourth interior lake confirmed to have zebra ...