Little League is now in full swing for the season! Little League games have taken place all week at the Lacey Recreation Complex and many of the community have come out to watch! The average attendance has been 70 Spectators per game. Keeping that average a 10 game night brings near 700 visitors to the […]
The Oskaloosa YMCA Boys Gymnastics Team captured the first place team trophy at the AmeriKids State Meet on Saturday, April 30, 2011. The team, which is small but mighty, consists of only three boys. Jack Cummings-age 9 from Pella got 2nd place overall, Jack Dawson-age 9 from Oskaloosa got 1st place overall and Josh Skinner-age […]
Lusitania Lost! On May 7, 1915, the German U-20 (submarine) sank the British ocean liner Lusitania. Approximately 1,200 civilians died; more than 100 were U.S. citizens. In reply to President Woodrow Wilson’s protest, Germany justified the attack on grounds that the British government intended to arm merchant ships. Prior to the Lusitania’s departure, the German […]
University Park. (Betty) Francine DeBruin, 83, of University Park, died Friday, May 6, 2011, at the Mahaska Hospital in Oskaloosa. She was born on July 10, 1927, at Oskaloosa, the daughter of Lloyd and Jeanette Denburger Patrick. She graduated from the Oskaloosa High School. Following school she went to work at the Mahaska County Hospital […]
The Better Business Bureau serving Greater Iowa, QuadCities and Siouxland Region is warning local Chambers and small business owners of a company selling advertising space on magnetized city guides. The company, Communities Unlimited LLC located in Davenport, IA is charging businesses advertising space on local city guides that are purportedly distributed throughout the community. The […]
“Fasting and prayer are religious exercises; the enjoining them an act of discipline. Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the time for these exercises, and the objects proper for them, according to their own particular tenets; and right can never be safer than in their hands, where the Constitution has deposited […]
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Pfc. Robert B. Bayne, of Dundalk, Md., will be buried on May 7 in his hometown. […]
The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Iowa and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, tornadoes, and straight-line winds during the period of April 9-10, 2011. Federal funding is available to State and eligible local governments and certain private […]
Tuesday, May 3, the House and Senate Republicans and Governor Branstad agreed to the total amount of general fund spending for FY 2012. The general fund budget would be just less than $6 billion. This amount is 97 percent of ongoing revenue and over $200 million less than the adjusted FY 2011 budget. It leaves […]
DECORAH—First baseman Katie Tenboer (senior, Morrison, Ill.) reached base seven times. Freshman pitcher Brie Haycraft (freshman, Eldridge, North Scott HS) scrapped her way through more than 11 innings in the circle. And the No. 5-ranked Central College softball team staged yet another backs-to-the-wall comeback. But after nearly 3.5 hours and 14 innings, it wasn’t enough […]
