The Oskaloosa High School Marching Indians compete at the Mid-Iowa Band Championships in Ankeny on Saturday October 16th. Osky placed 2nd in class 3A competition with a score of 80.6. Congratulations on a great season!! Join them on Facebook HERE. Thanks to YouTube user Overjoe for uploading this for us!
Last week, you overwhelmingly voted that you don’t believe that the jobs plans presented by Terry Branstad and Chet Culver will work. 28 residents (80%) voted no, 7 residents (20%) voted I don’t know, and 0 residents voted yes. The question of the week poll is unscientific and does not reflect the view of Osky […]
Judge Roy Moore’s event drew nearly 250 supporters to the William Penn PAC Center on Saturday October 16th 2010. Nearly all were there to hear him speak on his experience on being removed from the Alabama Supreme Court. The event started off with a prayer lead by Rev. Bill Tvedt of Jubilee Family Church of […]
Kaos Gold wrestling, in Oskaloosa, will be hosting a series of 5 wrestling camps over the next couple of months. Erik Akin, the Head Coach of the East Kansas Wrestling Club and 4 time NCAA All-American, 3 time Big 8 Champion, 2 time Olympic Alternate in 1996 2000, will be working with the club at […]
Statesmen Play Waldorf to Scoreless Draw Oskaloosa–Although it lacked scoring, the men’s soccer contest between William Penn and Waldorf was full of action and physical play as the teams tied 0-0 in Midwest Collegiate Conference action Saturday. The Statesmen (6-6-2, 2-4-1 MCC), who are undefeated in their last four games (3-0-1), overcame a 17-13 shot […]
Monroe Doctrine Shall we entangle ourselves at all, in European politicks, & wars, on the side of any power, against other…? On October 17, 1823, President James Monroe wrote a letter to his friend and Virginia neighbor Thomas Jefferson seeking advice on foreign policy. The issue at hand was whether to join forces with Britain […]
1998: Rain fell across parts of Iowa on October 14-17 with the heaviest rain recorded in southeastern Iowa on the 17th when Burlington measured 4.39 inches in 24 hours. Burlington would finish the month with a total of 8.62 inches and in terms of statewide average rainfall this was the wettest October in Iowa since […]
Delta. Dale W. Johnson, 101, of Delta, Iowa died Saturday, October 16, 2010, at the Mahaska Hospice Serenity House in Oskaloosa. He was born March 3, 1909, in Mahaska County, the son of Robert and Minnie Taylor Johnson. Following school he began farming until he was drafted into the United States Army in 1942, his […]
The Statesmen football team did just enough in all respects to beat a strong foe and remain perfect with a 41-35 win over St. Ambrose in Midwest League play Saturday. #12 nationally-ranked Penn (7-0, 4-0 MWL) put up big offensive numbers once again, but a talented Fighting Bee (3-4, 1-3 MWL) squad also found success […]
Late on the night of October 16, 1859, John Brown and twenty-one armed followers stole into the town of Harper’s Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia) as most of its residents slept. The men–among them three free blacks, one freed slave, and one fugitive slave–hoped to spark a rebellion of freed slaves and to lead an […]
