OSKALOOSA – Do you or a loved one have congestive heart failure? Do you live with or care for someone with congestive heart failure? If so, you should attend Mahaska Health Partnership’s Free Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Workshop on Saturday, March 12. The workshop, being offered on MHP’s campus in Oskaloosa from 9 a.m. to […]
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Last week we asked you who you supported in the Wisconsin budget battle. 59 residents responded with 36 residents (61%) supporting Governor Walker, 20 residents (34%) supporting the Unions, and 3 residents (5%). The Question of the Week poll is unscientific and does not reflect the view of Osky News. As a follow up to […]
PELLA—Led by Iowa Conference Field Athlete of the Year Ethan Miller (junior, Seymour), the Central College men’s track and field squad captured their second straight Iowa Conference indoor title Saturday in front of a home crowd at H.S. Kuyper Fieldhouse. The women’s squad recorded their best indoor finish in school history, taking second after finishing […]
MOUNT VERNON—Unable to pull out victories in close matches, the Central College men’s tennis team suffered a 6-3 setback to Cornell College Saturday in Mount Vernon. Sophomore Bryn Boswell (Pella) picked up two wins for the Dutch, taking a 6-2, 6-3 victory in No. 3 singles before pairing up with senior Jacob Dreyer (Cedar Falls) […]
PELLA—It was once again a Central sweep of the Iowa Conference men’s and women’s pentathlon titles at the league indoor track and field championships at H.S. Kuyper Fieldhouse Friday. Senior Jill Ziskovsky (Dallas Center, Dallas Center-Grimes HS) set a new meet record with 3,354 points to take the women’s crown. Meanwhile, senior Kurtis Brondyke (Clinton) […]
I started last week showing some of Iowa’s namesake ships, and the efforts by one of two groups to save her as a museum. Unlike the USS Iowa, the USS Des Moines has little of the fame her bigger sister had. CA-134 USS Des Moines had it’s start on May 28th of 1945 just as […]
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine. During his lifetime, Longfellow’s poetry enjoyed extraordinary popularity at home and abroad. “The Village Blacksmith” originally appeared in Knickerbocker magazine in 1840 and served as a standard recitation piece in American schools well into the twentieth century. Longfellow’s longer […]
1998: The temperature remained above freezing at the Dubuque airport for the 14th consecutive day, a rare occurrence during the winter months. The month would finish as the warmest February on record in eastern Iowa. 1954: Virtually no snow fell in Iowa for the first 24 days of the month before a storm struck from […]
DES MOINES, IA – On February 24, 2011, United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced that William David Langford of Winterset, Iowa has pleaded guilty to charges pertaining to his utilization of the United States Mail to send threatening communications to individuals and organizations in Winterset, Iowa in February of 2010. In pleading guilty to […]
