Beacon City Council was called to order on Thursday November 4 at their normal start time of 7 pm at the Beacon City Hall, with a slight delay caused by a heating issue to the building. Mayor Maxwell called the meeting to order, with council members Wayne Braden, Richard Thomas, and Aron Whitlatch. Ron Ferree […]
The Oskaloosa School board met Thursday in regular session with Board President Don Patterson calling the meeting to order at 7:30 pm. All members except for Don Patterson were present. In regular session, the board: Heard an update report on the District Leadership Team Heard a report on the Professional Learning Communities Heard a presentation […]
Kerrigan’s Perfect Ten Nets League Honor Oskaloosa—Marcus Kerrigan (Fr., Cary, Ill., Cary-Grove HS) did not miss on a single kick last weekend and for his efforts he was named Midwest League Special Teams Player of the Week announced by the league office yesterday. Kerrigan, now a four-time winner of the award, helped the #14 nationally-ranked […]
Statesmen Take Runner-Up Trophy at Warhawk Open Madison, Wis.–The Penn men’s bowling program nearly collected its first-ever team crown as it finished high at the Warhawk Open hosted by Wisconsin-Whitewater last Saturday and Sunday. As a team, Penn placed second out of 30 teams with 9,284 pins in six regular games and 16 Baker games. […]
July 06, 1944 – November 09, 2010 Visitation: 12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m. Sunday and with the family present from 2:00 to 6:00 November 14, 2010 at Smith Funeral Home, Grinnell Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m. Monday November 15, 2010 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Grinnell Interment: , at Maple Hill Cemetery, Osceola, Iowa Shirle J. […]
Dubuque. , 93, of Dubuque, formerly of University Park, Iowa, died Tuesday evening (November 9) in Dubuque at Ennoble Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, which had been her home for 1½ years. Margaret was born in Grinnell, Iowa, on June 19, 1917, to Homer and Mabel Hartzell McCaulley, the first of Homer and Mabel’s seven […]
The National Weather Service in conjunction with the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency has declared November 9, 2010 as Winter Weather Awareness Day in Iowa. Each year, winter returns to Iowa and produces winter storms, blizzards, ice storms and periods of extremely cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills. Extreme winter weather disrupts transportation, […]
There have been perilous times in our nation’s history that there was only one person who could provide the solution. In these perilous times, this person had to sacrifice and leave it all behind and count it but loss. It is this person who the ordinary citizen might take for granted. It is this person […]
Editors Note: The views and opinions expressed in this editorial are not necessarily the views or opinions of Osky News Some have said that voting out three high court justices has no effect on Iowa marriage law. They are correct. Here’s why. There was no marriage law before the vote and there is still no […]
Oskaloosa–The Statesmen football team is in about as good of a position nationally as it could hope for as the NAIA’s ninth poll was released today. Courtesy of its win and Missouri Valley’s loss, Penn (9-1, 5-1 MWL) moved up to #13 with 219 points. The Statesmen defeated Waldorf 58-10 last Saturday. The playoff picture […]
