1938: Unseasonably cool weather settled across Iowa on September 18-19, with temperatures dropping into the 30s at many locations on each day. Flurries were observed on the 18th at Orleans near the Appanoose/Davis county border and on the 19th at Maquoketa, making this one of the earliest fall snow events on record in Iowa. 1926: […]
Join Nelson Pioneer Farm for their annual Pioneer Fall Festival. An event for the entire family, the Nelson Pioneer Farm Fall Festival has over 30 exhibits and demonstrations of pioneer living skills, antiques, hands-on activities like butter churning and rope making, old-fashioned children’s games, a country dinner, a parade, demonstrations of old-fashioned farm equipment, a […]
Tonight’s scores as they are called in and or posted. Oskaloosa 0 Pella 35 Knoxville 20 Norwalk 35 Pella Christian 49 Clarinda 0 Eddyville-Blakesburg 0 Mid-Prarie 42 Grinnell 7 Williamsburg 42 Ottumwa 55 DSM North 36 Lynnville-Sully 2 Montezuma 6 North Mahaska 7 B-G-M 43 Twin Cedars 60 Melcher Dallas 30 Sigourney-Keota 34 Central Lee […]
The Oskaloosa Community Theater will be performing “You Can’t Beat the House” at their playhouse, 406 High Avenue East, Oskaloosa. Performances will be the 16th, 17th and 18th at 8 pm at the playhouse. Auditions were held July 19 and 20. Visit the OCT web site or talk to any OCT board member for additional […]
Beacon. Doris Bushey, 63, of Beacon, died Thursday, September 16, 2010, at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center, in Des Moines. She was born December 20, 1946, at Oskaloosa the daughter of (Leo) Melvin and Betty J. Knox Clark. On October 15, 1970, she was united in marriage to Robert Bushey at San Diego, California. Robert […]
Jungle Safari came to town with their wide assortment of animals. Tigers, llamas, monkey’s,ring-tailed lemurs, a red kangaroo, a baby tiger, a baby lion, and various other animals. A camel and ponies for a ride. Penn Central Mall is the place to catch up with them. When we arrived to the petting zoo, one of […]
Lt Governor Patty Judge made a lunchtime stop at Oskaloosa’s Smokey Row to help drum up support and encourage supporters. Governor Culver and Patty Judge are running for their second term together. They covered some of the highlights from the debate between incumbent Chet Culver (D) and challenger Terry Branstad (R). They feel good and […]
This is just a reminder to vote in the question of the week poll. The poll will be open until Sunday at 9 pm when we will close the poll and release the final vote tally.
The Oskaloosa School board has just sold its house from last year ending speculation on what would happen to the house. At Tuesday’s school board meeting, the board accepted and awarded a bid to an Oskaloosa couple pursuant to proper closing procedures. The new house is located at the Webster subdivision where more houses are […]
From the Eddyville-Blakesburg Cross Country website: The Runnin’ Rockets competed at the Oskaloosa Invitational on Tuesday. The boys finished 6th of 14 teams while the girls finished 11th out of 11. Coach Comfort had this to say “I really felt the team competed hard today. The kids are learning to push themselves to their limits. […]
