Oskaloosa, Iowa – The Mahaska County Board of Supervisors met in regular session on Monday morning. Mahaska County Emergency Manager Jamey Robinson demonstrated the Lucas Device, which is used to provide hands-free CPR. The devices are a chest compression system, which would allow continuous mechanical CPR. The money would come from a grant to fund […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Inside the music shop G-Strings Guitars and More, located in the back, are boxes of vinyl records. It’s an almost automatic thought to wonder why anyone would be selling such relics of years gone by when the crystal clear sound of digital audio is available. Vinyl has a core audience that appreciates […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The echoes from the #18 William Penn Women’s game defeating #6 Mid-American Nazarene, the echo’s of victory had started to be drowned out in Penn Gymnasium as them men started to warm up. Those echoes were making their way into Heart of America conference gyms around the midwest. William Penn had just […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The people of Oskaloosa and Mahaska County struggled their way past days of some of the coldest temperatures to hit the area since the mid 1960’s. Lows in Oskaloosa dipped to a -23 degrees and the thermometer struggled to get past the break even point of 0 degrees. A wind chill warning […]
“Borrowing the anything-goes spirit of lunatic innocence from the musicals of the 1920s…. A wild and crazy sick joke set to music, it’s a funny show!” – Leo Seligsohn, New York Newsday by Lily Vernooy, Lucky Stiff Marketing Team member Lucky Stiff mixes “the zany antics of a Marx Brothers movie with a preposterous plot […]
by Jamie Brockman The Oskaloosa Boys basketball team suffered a big blow on Thursday when leading scorer Cole Henry suffered a broken hand in practice, possibly ending his Senior season. I spoke with Henry just hours after he suffered the injury and he said “We were working on offensive plays in practice. I was coming […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The center court of Penn Central Mall was filled with laughter, and kids of all ages enjoyed the inflatables and lazer tag from Lazer Alley, games from Mahaska Drug, and Tom Terrific making ballons. Central United Methodist Church in Oskaloosa was facilitating the Sunday afternoon of fun. Paster Bruce Wittern said that […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The joke on social media this past week is that someone has either made Elsa angry or she has moved to Oskaloosa, because winter has been on full blast for the past few weeks. Those not familiar with ‘Elsa’, she is a character from the Disney movie ‘Frozen’. On Tuesday morning, the […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Things in Iowa have been slow the past couple of weeks. People are moving slower through the snow, and cars are starting a little slower in the mornings. Inside of Smokey Row on Saturday morning, people braved the arctic weather to listen to Mahaska County’s three legislative representatives speak about the young […]
Getting Down to Business 1/25/2019 Hello Friends, With the start of the second week, we at the Capitol have been gearing up for both the work and weather ahead of us this session. Transitioning from the ceremony from last week, we have begun tackling the issues and defining our goals for the session. Early this […]
