Oskaloosa. Lola Campbell, 79, of Oskaloosa and formerly of Delta, died Monday, February 21, 2011, at her home in Oskaloosa. She was born on April 11, 1931, at New Sharon, Iowa, the daughter of Isaac and Gussie Cleo Osborn DeWeese. She grew up in the Rose Hill area and attended school at Delta and Oskaloosa. […]
Pella. Donna Hostetler, 74, of rural Pella died on Monday, February 21, 2011, at her home in rural Pella. She was born December 17, 1936, at Waukegan, Illinois, the daughter of Gordon and Olive Hansen Martin. Donna grew up in Lake Villa, Illinois. She graduated from the Antioch Township High School with the class of […]
August 22, 1911 – February 21, 2011 As per her wishes, no services will be held and a private family burial will be held at Monroe Cemetery. Norma was born on August 22, 1911 in Monroe, Iowa and she was adopted and raised by Harvey and Bessie Farmer Churchill. She graduated from Monroe High School […]
University Park. Evadena DeBruin, 92, of University Park, died Monday, February 21, 2011, at the Hospice Serenity House in Oskaloosa. She was born on December 31, 1918, the daughter of Gysbert and Johanna Hol Roozeboom, in their farm home near Tracy. She was the oldest of seven children. Being the only daughter, she helped her […]
Food prices have gone up and are continuing to go up. There has been much devoted to this subject on news programs, newspapers and the internet. The World Bank reported that food prices are 29% higher than a year ago. Fuel is going up, not only gasoline, but diesel fuel. Since the majority of our […]
The Iowa General Assembly was in session today. In the afternoon session of the house, two new bills were introduced. HF 334, An Act expanding the definition of alternate energy production facility for purposes of compliance with electric utility rate regulation requirements, was introduced by Representative Wagner. HF 338, An Act relating to the criminal […]
I recently started looking into ways to share Iowa’s military history. I thought I would run the U.S.S. Iowa and maybe a few other stories the month before Memorial Day. I was then shocked as I dug into Naval history the amount of ships that have their namesakes rooted in Iowa. It became evident, this […]
Shawn Nautilus of CEW fame will be returning back to Oskaloosa on March 26th at 7p.m. to Bradbury Hall. Nautilus, who describes himself as a modern day Dusty Rhodes, has been wrestling for CEW the last 4 years. Some of his favorite matches in CEW have come in the series he had against Mic Mayhem. […]
Diaz Qualifies, Burgey Second at Central Qualifier Marshall, Mo.–Chris Diaz (Jr., Montrose, Colo., Olathe HS) took advantage of his final opportunity to qualify for nationals as Penn competed in the NAIA Central National Qualifier Saturday. According to the NAIA’s criteria, a wrestler can advance to nationals by placing in the top four in his weight […]
The United States is gravely concerned with disturbing reports and images coming out of Libya. We are working to ascertain the facts, but we have received multiple credible reports that hundreds of people have been killed and injured in several days of unrest – and the full extent of the death toll is unknown due […]
