Archive for: July, 2012

NASCAR Nationwide Action Returns To The Iowa Speedway

Kurt Bush (54) and Austin Dillion race for position at the May NASCAR Nationwide race at the Iowa Speedway in front of 34,000 fans.

Newton, Iowa – The NASCAR Nationwide Series makes its return to the Iowa Speedway on Saturday August 4th. If your not familiar with the Iowa Speedway, it’s a 7/8 mile short track that drives like a super speedway. It was also the first track built with safer barriers in place at the time of construction. […]

Osky Rebels Make Their Mark At USSSA World Series

  Oskaloosa, Iowa – The Osky Rebels 12U softball team traveled to Kansas City July 11-14 to take on 68 of the best teams in the 12U bracket at the USSSA World Series. There, the Rebels were placed in the top bracket of the American Division. That bracket is known to carry many of the […]

Mahaska County Community Asks Residents To Conserve Water

Oskaloosa, Iowa – The thunder and lightning filled the sky over Mahaska County recently, but finding out how much your rain gauge was filled depended upon your location. Anything from trace amounts to the north, to nearly half an inch in some sections of western Mahaska County. Water conservation measures are being put into place in the […]

Northern State coaches join Central track and field staff

PELLA — Veteran Northern State University (S.D.) track and field coaches Jim Fuller and Brenda Fuller are joining the Central College staff. Jim Fuller, Northern State’s head men’s and women’s track and field coach for the past 24 years, becomes Central’s associate head coach. His wife, Brenda Fuller, the program’s throwing events coach during that […]

Central earns academic team honor

PELLA— For the sixth straight year, the Central College women’s track and field team has received Division III All-Academic Team honors from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Teams that compile a 3.10 or better cumulative grade point average (4.0 scale) are given the distinction. The Dutch carried a 3.26 mark. […]

Central to induct four in hall of honor

PELLA — Three NCAA Division III national champions and the college’s winningest men’s basketball coach are set to become the newest members of the Central College Athletics Hall of Honor. Long-time men’s basketball coach Jack Walvoord ‘54, softball pitching all-American Emily Grimes Rottinghaus ’94 and wrestling champs Tim Hackel ’87 and Jon McGovern ’92 will […]

Boswell Rep to Hold Office Hours in Montezuma and Oskaloosa

Des Moines, IA- Rep. Leonard Boswell will have a member of his staff in Montezuma and Oskaloosa, Tuesday, August 7th, 2012, for open office hours. Greg Johnson, Boswell’s District Representative, will be at: Montezuma City Hall from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Oskaloosa Public Library from 11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon Johnson will be on […]

Jerrald “Jerry” Van Englehoven

Jerrald “Jerry” Van Englehoven, 74, of Reeds Spring, Missouri and formerly of Oskaloosa died on Saturday, July 28, 2012 at his home in Reeds Spring. He was born on Wednesday, September 15, 1937 in the Scott Township of Mahaska County, the son of John and Ethel Houser Van Englehoven. He graduated from Oskaloosa High School […]

William J. Wilson

William J. Wilson, 83, of Montezuma and formerly of Harvey died Friday, July 27, 2012 at the Grinnell Regional Health Center in Grinnell. He was born Thursday, January 17, 1929 in Harvey, the son of William A. and Elizabeth Leighty Wilson. Following school he worked with his father on the family farm. He served in […]

Margaret McKee

Margaret McKee February 26, 1936 – July 26, 2012 University Park, Iowa Visitation: will begin at 10 a.m., Monday morning, July 30, 2012 at Garland-Van Arkel-Langkamp Funeral Chapel. The family will be present from 5 – 7 p.m. to greet visitors. Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m., Tuesday morning, July 31, 2012 at The Gateway Church of […]

         

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