The Oskaloosa High School Speech team finished the year strong with a performance by Sophomore Bob Leonard at the IHSSA All-State Festival. Leonard competed in the Public Address category giving a speech by Hubert H. Humphrey. Leonard was nominated as an Outstanding Performer at the IHSSA State Festival on March 12th. The Speech team started […]
Oskaloosa. Reed Lindahl, 84, of Oskaloosa, died Monday, March 28, 2011, at the Mahaska Hospital in Oskaloosa. For details regarding Reed’s illness, visit www.caringbridge.org/visit/reedlindahl. He was born September, 28, 1926, at Sparta, Wisconsin, the son of Gustave and Mabel Zietlow Lindahl. He graduated from the Wilton High School in Wilton, Wisconsin with the class of […]
Oskaloosa. Jim Lahue, 66, of Oskaloosa, died on Monday, March 28, 2011, at the Hospice Serenity House in Oskaloosa. He was born Tuesday, September 26, 1944, at Cherokee, Iowa, the son of Robert and Ann Bonar Lahue. He graduated from high school in Cedar Rapids in 1962. Following high school, he worked at D.C. Taylors […]
Friday March 25th, local leaders and state representative’s assembled at the Iowa Bioprocess Training Center of Indian Hills, located at the Cargill complex in Eddyville, Iowa. Attendees on hand included representatives from Wacker Chemical, Indian Hills, Alliant Energy, Cargill, Ajinomoto Food Ingredients, Ajinomoto Heartland, Mahaska County, Monroe County, Eddyville, Mahaska Community Development Group, Ottumwa Economic […]
Davenport–The Penn baseball team failed to secure the opener and then could not regain the momentum in the nightcap in losing a pair of Midwest Collegiate Conference games to St. Ambrose Sunday. In a doubleheader that was moved back one day due to poor weather conditions, the Statesmen (15-9, 2-5 MCC) fell 3-2 (11 innings) […]
GRINNELL, Iowa – Grinnell College’s Michael Brus ’14 and Imelda Wistey ’14 earned All-America honors Saturday at the 2011 NCAA Division III National Swimming and Diving Championships in Knoxville, Tenn. Brus was fourth in the men’s 200-yard backstroke with yet another record-breaking performance. After shattering his own school and Midwest Conference records in the preliminaries […]
High School soccer has begun practice for the soccer season. Mahaska County Youth soccer also began practice for their league division and will begin for the recreation division on Monday. Youth soccer has 220 recreation players this season and 123 league players. High School boys team has 34 players and 3 managers this season while […]
PELLA — The Central-College Community Orchestra will perform Sunday, April 3, in Douwstra Auditorium at 4 p.m. The concert will feature special performances by the winners of the 2011 Concerto Aria competition and is free and open to the public. Kelilah Brown of Newton, bassoonist, will perform “Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in F Major” […]
Thursday, Pella Corporation invited Michelle Moore, Obama Administration’s Federal Environmental Executive responsible for promoting sustainability and environmental stewardship throughout the federal government’s operations, to visit Pella. While on campus, she met with students who gave presentations about Central’s green initiatives and toured the Roe Center, Central’s platinum-rated Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) building. […]
Oskaloosa – Mahaska Health Partnership generates 350 jobs that add $25.4 million to Mahaska County’s economy, according to the latest study by the Iowa Hospital Association. In addition, MHP employees by themselves spend $5.8 million on retail sales and contribute $349,600 in state sales tax revenue. “We recognize our impact in the community as one […]
