Oskaloosa, Iowa – The Mahaska County Board of Supervisors met on Monday, March 5th in their last Monday meeting of the year. The day of the meeting has been changed to allow Supervisor Mark Doland to attend. He explained that Monday’s are in conflict with his new employment. The board held their public hearing on […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The Oskaloosa City Council met in regular session on Monday, March 5th, 2018. The mayor, at the request of council-member Tom Walling, pulled item E and F from the consent agenda. The remainder of the consent agenda passed unanimously. Item E was a request to authorize and direct Ahlers & Cooney to […]
A college campus and community working towards healing. Oskaloosa, Iowa – An email from William Penn University President John Ottosson, on Friday morning, informed the student population that one of their own, Marquis Todd, of Woodridge, Illinois, had passed away overnight. Todd was also a member of the William Penn Men’s basketball team. The shock […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – William Penn University released a statement this morning to Facebook saying: “It is with a heavy heart that we mourn the loss of one of our William Penn students from an incident that occurred last night off campus. It is known at this time that the other individuals in this incident were […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – It was recently announced that long-time Oskaloosa Police Chief Jake McGee was going to retire at the end of May. The Civil Service Commission gathered this week to receive the proposed timeline and hiring process for the position of police chief. That process is being spearheaded by Stephen Niebur with Moulder & […]
Pella, Iowa – The South Central Regional Airport Agency (SCRAA) held their quarterly meeting on February 27th in the council chambers inside the Pella Public Safety Complex. During the public comment portion of the meeting, the agency heard from two interested individuals John Bandstra and Daniel Nugteren. A motion was made to accept the written […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – A small crowd was gathered in the parking lot at Mahaska Health Partnership this past week to watch the latest technology get unloaded and moved into the Mahaska Health Partnership building. Julie Hartke, Director of Radiology at MHP, was happy to see their new MRI scanner being craned into place this week. […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Area law enforcement and teachers with the Oskaloosa Elementry School took time on Monday to practice and train in the event of an active shooter. No students were in school that day, as teachers were finalizing grades for the end of the trimester. Oskaloosa Police Lieutenant Gary McClun said the opportunity for […]
Pleasant Hill, Iowa – The Oskaloosa Indians stepped into the Southeast Polk High School on Monday. They were looking to mark off one more goal they had set for themselves when the season started, and that was a trip to Wells Fargo Arena and the state basketball tournament. The opening tip-off went to Carlisle. Their […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – A fresh coating of ice impacted the attendance at Saturday morning’s Eggs & issues inside Smokey Row Coffee House. Rep. Guy Vander Linden and Sen. Ken Rozenboom were able to make it to the morning question and answer session. Missing was Rep. Larry Sheets, who would have had to travel from the […]
