A LARGE NUMBER OF AREA RESIDENTS ARE ENJOYING THE USE OF THE MUTI-USE RECREATION TRAIL. WITH WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN EARLY SPRING, THE USE AND ENJOYMENT OF THE TRAIL ARE ONLY GOING TO INCREASE. THE OSKALOOSA POLICE DEPARTMENT WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE OF SOME OF THE CITY ORDINANCES REGULATING THE TRAIL’S USE: SOME […]
Team Musco Lighting was the victor of Tuesday night’s YMCA season-ending adult dodgeball tournament. Musco Lighting competed against six other area teams during the regular season, and edged out team ICI for the win in the championship game. The team consists of players Wil Bauer, Kiley Broadway, Dustin DeHaan, T.J. Nelson, Josh Newell, Kayla Owen, […]
DUBUQUE—More dominant pitching let the first-place Central College baseball team hang around long enough to pull out a split of its Iowa Conference doubleheader at the University of Dubuque Saturday and win its third straight series. Joel Pulliam (senior, Des Moines, Lincoln HS) suffered a 1-0 defeat, his first of the year, but Central ended […]
DUBUQUE — The method was different but the result was the same for the first-place Central College baseball team Friday, rallying for another dramatic victory, a 7-4, 10-inning win over the University of Dubuque, despite managing just three hits. Now a surprising 18-4 overall and 8-1 in Iowa Conference play, the Dutch trailed 4-3 entering […]
PELLA — Battling breezy conditions, the Central College men’s golf team is tied for first after the opening round of the Central Spring Invitational Friday. The Dutch shot a 309 in the 14-team field at Bos Landen Golf Club and shares the lead with the University of Dubuque. Wartburg College is third with 315 and […]
PELLA — Sophomore Jordan Overland (Madrid, Boone HS) entered the game as a pinch-runner but delivered they key blow at the plate as the No. 8 Central College softball team pulled off a significant sweep of Washington-St. Louis University Thursday, 3-0 and 4-1. After pounding out 21 hits in a surprising sweep at No. 3 […]
Iowa’s Unemployment Rate Drops To 5.3% Iowa Workforce Development announced this week that Iowa’s unemployment rate had dropped to 5.3% in the month of February as it continues to retain the 6th lowest unemployment rate in the nation. While the national average stayed the same as the previous month: 8.3% for the month of February, […]
1:1 Laptop Program Best Practices Oskaloosa Community School District has always strived to offer a variety of technology resources for staff, student, and parent use. This year with the advent of the 1:1 Laptop program at the high school, a new MacBook laptop has been placed in nearly every student’s hands in order to expand […]
Oskaloosa. Claude J. Brandtner, 93, of Oskaloosa, died Saturday morning, April 7, 2012, at the MHP Hospice Serenity House. He was born April 5, 1919 at Albany, Minnesota, the youngest child of Alex and Katherine Nies Brandtner. He graduated from the Ellsworth, Wisconsin High School with the class of 1937. He then attended River Falls […]
Jeannetta M. Bycroft July 27, 1933 – April 07, 2012 Des Moines, Iowa Visitation: 10:00 A.M. until the time of service at 11:00 A.M. April 14, 2012 at Fremont Funeral Chapel Funeral Service: 11:00 A.M. April 14, 2012 at Fremont Funeral Chapel Interment: Memorial Lawn Cemetery near Ottumwa, Iowa. West Des Moines, Iowa-Jeannetta M. Bycroft, […]
