Oskaloosa, Iowa – Jay Remmers is a runner in the program 4K for Cancer, which is part of the Ulman Cancer Fund. Thirty young adults are on a cross-country run to raise awareness and funds for young adults who are impacted by cancer. The run is now in its fourth year, while a bicycle event […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Plans for a new environmental learning center can be traced back to 2008. Now, nearly a decade later, the vision will become a reality. The Mahaska County Board of Supervisors approved the expenditure of 3.675 million dollars. The funding will come from the sale of the old county farm, and local option […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – It may have been a fairly modern tractor, pulling a machine that was 100 years older, but the experience of cutting and shocking oats was passed along to another generation on Saturday. The new tractor was a bit of an exception, as the farm typically has an equipment cut-off date of 1958, […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The Mahaska County Board of Supervisors held the first regularly-scheduled meeting of the month on July 3. During the public comments section of the meeting, former Mahaska County case manager Laura Buch read a prepared statement to the board in regards to the closing of Mahaska County Case Management. In Mahaska County, […]
Pella, Iowa – At the final meeting in June, the Mahaska County Board of Supervisors voted 2-1 to leave the 28E agreement it had signed with the cities of Pella and Oskaloosa to build a regional airport. The vote to leave was spearheaded by Mahaska County Supervisor Mark Doland, whose political base is built upon […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Lieutenant Craig Alexander is well known for his kind and gentle manner of dealing with the students at the Oskaloosa School District, where he served as the Resource Officer for several years. Alexander’s last working day on the force was June 22nd, 2017, but he is officially on vacation until mid-July. He […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Where with a greeting, a smile, and the passing over of a signed copy of a book, history was handed down to yet another generation of Oskaloosa readers. The book – ‘As Good As Dead’ by Stephen L. Moore – describes the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The item appears on the Oskaloosa City Council Agenda for Thursday, July 6th as simply, “Invocation: Justin Scott, Director, Eastern Iowa Atheists”. Scott says that membership in Eastern Iowa Atheists is “about 500 members now” which covers eastern Iowa. The definition of an atheist is “a person who disbelieves or lacks belief […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – There has been plenty of discussion about the new regional airport with politicians around the county, but at the quarterly board meeting, it was business as usual. The Mahaska County Board of Supervisors voted last week to remove the county from a 28E agreement with the cities of Pella and Oskaloosa to […]
Leighton, Iowa – The Pella Fire Department was called to a house on fire located at 304 Reid Street in Leighton on Monday evening. According to Pella Fire Chief, Doug Van Gorkom, there were no injuries reported with the fire that did some structural damage to the residence. Pella sent four apparatus trucks to the […]
