Ottumwa, Iowa – On February 5th, Community 1st Credit Union, based in Ottumwa, Iowa received the Juntos Avanzamos (Together We Advance) designation in a national rollout. The Juntos Avanzamos program originated in November of 2005 at the Texas Credit Union League (which recently merged with other regional leagues to form the Cornerstone Credit Union League) […]
FREMONT – Give Virgil Sludge a few bucks and the chance to win thousands and something strange will occur. Mama Hooper would just as soon her daughter Margaret had married someone else. Then Virgil wins the lottery – sort of. That is just the beginning of the hilarity that can only be delivered by the […]
MAHASKA COUNTY – Family Nurse Practitioner Robyn Griffiths, ARNP-C, has joined Mahaska Health Partnership as a Hospitalist. “Hospitalists are solely dedicated to caring for patients in the hospital,” Hospitalist Medical Director Anne Whitis, MD, explained. “We act as a patient’s primary care provider during their inpatient stay, and then turn care back to their primary […]
Spring Sports are just around the corner and we are gearing up! Saturday, February 6th the Oskaloosa Babe Ruth organizations held registration for Osky Babe Ruth and Senior Babe Ruth. The Saturday before, January 30th, the Mahaska County Soccer Club held registration for youth soccer . The registrations were held in the MCRF meeting room […]
Oskaloosa–The William Penn University Athletics Booster Club has announced the recipients of January’s Player of the Month awards. Junior men’s indoor track and field athlete Derek Seddon (Knoxville, Iowa, Physical Education) claimed the Male award, while senior women’s indoor track and field athlete Tarah Alexander (Cedar, Iowa, Physical Education) took home the Female honor. The […]
Oskaloosa–The William Penn men’s basketball team has taken some hits over the last few weeks, but is still a top-10 team as the NAIA released its seventh Division I rating Tuesday. The Statesmen (19-5, 12-4 Heart), who have split their last six games, dropped into a tie for #9 with Biola (Calif.) at 182 points. […]
Dear friends in District 80. Representatives passed the education funding Bill out of the House increasing K-12 school funding $81 million. When combined with the money for Teacher Leadership, this represents 84% of the state’s newly available revenue going to education. Since 2011, the funding has increased by over $500 million. I love my children, […]
Keeping Offices Connected – Since 1986 WAUKEE, IA, February 9, 2016 – It all began as an idea in 1986 at Drake University, and today is one of the most experienced technology companies in the Midwest. While a student at Drake University, Greg Ryman and some other top programmers started Access Customer Programming. As the […]
by Jamie Brockman Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont (E-B-F) won their Class 1A Wrestling Sectional at English Valleys Saturday with 202 points, while Sigourney-Keota finished 2nd with 185 points. Finishing first and second earned both teams a trip to the Class 1A Regional Team Dual tournament this Tuesday night at Sigourney. Both teams will dual each other in the […]
Marshall, Mo.–Two Statesmen grapplers reached the finals and two more placed as William Penn competed at the Missouri Valley Open Sunday. 133-pounder Tommy Rios (Fr., Tucson, Ariz., Exercise Science) and heavyweight Matthew Cuthbert (Fr., Yucaipa, Calif., Sociology) both battled for individual crowns, but came up one win shy. Rios finished 2-1 with one fall, eventually […]
