Thursday, December 29, 2010 — The cold weather and winter conditions often bring an increase in home fires as many people use alternate heating sources such as space heaters, fireplaces, or coal or wood stoves to stay warm, and the Mid Iowa Region today offered a series of tips to help people stay safe and […]
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today awarded $206 million to 15 states for making significant progress in enrolling uninsured children in Medicaid. This year’s bonuses are more than double the $75 million awarded to ten states last year. “Today’s announcement highlights the ongoing and committed efforts by states to improve access to health coverage programs and […]
Visitation: Friday, December 31, 2010 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM Sinnott Pierschbacher Funeral Home 9 2nd Ave. East Albia, IA 52531 Service: Friday, December 31, 2010 11:00 AM Sinnott Pierschbacher Funeral Home 9 2nd Ave. East Albia, IA 52531 Irene Marie (Sytsma) Brown, age 83, of Fremont, passed away peacefully on December 28, 2010, at […]
CHARITON – Hunters have reported harvesting more than 108,000 deer so far through the DNR’s harvest reporting system, which is 6.4 percent behind the 2009 levels, or about 7,000 fewer deer. Harvest totals have been lower each of the past few years as the deer herd approaches targeted population goals in more counties. “We are […]
Robert Gosselink, 81 of Grinnell passed away Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will begin at 10:30 am Thursday, December 30, 2010 at the Grinnell United Methodist Church. Visitation will be held Wednesday, December 29, 2010 from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm at the Harden Funeral Home in New […]
Editors note: This is the first of a multi-part story on Mahaska Health Partnership and it’s construction project. I had an opportunity to sit down with MHP’s CEO Jay Christensen Monday morning and discuss some of the Hospitals steps and plans after the urban renewal vote. The Mahaska County Supervisors had voted down an urban […]
Des Moines, IOWA — On December 27, 2010, at approximately 10:45 p.m., a Trooper with the Iowa State Patrol stopped a vehicle for no front plate on East 4th Street, south of Des Moines Street in Des Moines. The driver was identified as Ermin Zornic, age 20, and the passenger as Adam Robinson, age 21. […]
MidAmerican Energy Company is No. 1 in the nation in ownership of wind-powered electric generation among rate-regulated utilities and has more than 1,393 megawatts of wind generating facilities in operation, under construction and under contract in Iowa. MidAmerican Energy began installing wind turbines in 2004 and has made the investment without raising customers’ electric rates. […]
“Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.” But what was Iowa, and for that matter Mahaska County and Oskaloosa before the time she was a State? Some of the first European’s to map and explore the area that contains Iowa was Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet. These men traveled the Mississippi River […]
According to the FBI’s Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report released today, the nation experienced a 6.2 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes and a 2.8 percent decline in the number of property crimes from January to June 2010, when compared with data from the same time period in the prior year. The report […]
