The Oskaloosa High School Drama Thespian Troupe # 228 will be presenting their play ‘Blithe Spirit’ on Friday and Saturday evenings beginning at 7:30. The March 4-5 performances began with auditions that began when students arrived back from their break in January. Cast for the play includes Amber Ringgenberg, Angela Hyland, Grant Carriker, Lyrie Morris, […]
The Oskaloosa Girl Scouts will have the following Cookie Booth sales going on in the community this Saturday March 5th. Please come out and support our Girl Scouts as money earned will help support the troop for the year and allow them to do several activities. Hy-Vee – Daisy troop 286 Fareway – Brownie troop […]
I hope everyone is enjoying this round of ‘Where in Mahaska County’. Today’s I am guessing will be figured out rather quickly. If you have suggestions or pictures you would like to share please email them to info@oskynews.org. After I post the picture, I will make a post on our Facebook Page where people can […]
Vicki Wright got yesterdays Where in Mahaska County, with Mark Tennison right there as well. Good luck with today’s picture, will we have an “Anonymous” winner? All puns aside, have fun and good luck. If you have suggestions or pictures you would like to share please email them to info@oskynews.org. After I post the picture, […]
AMES, Iowa — Iowa State University has scheduled a series of certification workshops in April for people who want to sell morel mushrooms. “The aim of the workshops is to help assure that misidentified mushrooms are not sold as morels. People can be poisoned by eating mushrooms that are misidentified as morels,” said plant pathology […]
PELLA — Central College’s second Notes @ Noon concert of the semester will feature three music faculty, with trombonist Matt Driscoll, adjunct instructor of music; Dennis Pedde, adjunct instructor of music, on trumpet; and Patrice Ewoldt, visiting assistant professor of music, accompanying on piano. The concert is Friday, March 4, in Cox-Snow Recital Hall starting […]
Most people consider professional wrestling a man’s sport, Angelus Layne would beg to differ. Originally from Raytown, Missouri, Layne and her family then moved to Fowlerville, Michigan where her family now resides. During the week, Layne is a full time college student. When she’s not wrestling or at school, she’s hanging out with her husband […]
Rocking blues band “Pete Neuman and the Real Deal” will be visiting the Oskaloosa Elementary School on Friday, March 4. Front man Pete Neuman will be speaking to a class of nearly 50 fourth grade students. Neuman will also visit a Pella Middle School guitar class. Neuman says that his mission is to share his […]
PELLA — Central College will co-host the 23nd annual Bald Eagle Days Saturday, March 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. There will be a live eagle show hourly in Douwstra Auditorium from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. with the final show beginning at 3 p.m. In Graham Conference Center, there will be an environmental fair featuring raptor shows throughout […]
PELLA — Author Alexandra Fuller is third in Central College’s spring 2011 Writers Reading series Thursday, March 10. Fuller will read selections from her work in Cox-Snow Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. Fuller’s debut novel, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, was […]
