Oskaloosa–For the third year in a row, the William Penn men’s basketball found themselves on top of the Heart of America Athletic Conference, defeating the Evangel Valor in the championship match on Monday by a score of 99-91. The game opened closely contested as the two played to a 10-10 tie. Kevion Blaylock (Sr., Houston, […]
February 27th, 2022 Oskaloosa, Iowa – Education and teacher morale were hot topics at Saturday’s Eggs and Issues at Smokey Row. The hotly contested conversation around Iowa involved the material being taught and those who teach that material. Saturday’s Eggs and Issues wasn’t much different from many conversations around Iowa after Iowa Republican Jake Chapman’s […]
by Angela Hanson The District is the First in Iowa to Provide Free, Unlimited Tutoring to Students OSKALOOSA, IA, Feb 28, 2022 – Oskaloosa Community School District has partnered with Paper, a tutoring company on a mission to empower all students to achieve success with equitable access to academic support. This partnership provides unlimited, 24/7 […]
February 25th, 2022 Oskaloosa, Iowa – As Oskaloosa Little League organizers Tina Schaffner and Shawn Maxwell sat down with us to talk about the upcoming Little League season, snow was falling, and an unseasonably cold chill was prevalent. Schaffner says they want to help increase the number of youth participating in the Little League program, […]
by Senator Ken Rozenboom As I write this newsletter on Thursday evening the world is watching what appears to be a full-scale invasion of a sovereign nation by a Russian tyrant. I hope and pray that we are not witnessing anything like Adolph Hitler’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 that began the world-wide […]
by Pat Kinney / IowaWatch A handful of Iowa communities and a group of Iowa State University researchers are trying to demonstrate that less can, in fact, be more, and small can, in fact, be vibrant. If you’re smart about it. In an outgrowth of community surveys begun a quarter century ago, ISU researchers have […]
by Holly Brink Week 7 Update Hello Friends, This week at the Iowa House of Representatives, floor debate was in full swing. We debated numerous bills to help Iowans and further the progress of the great state of Iowa as a whole. The Iowa House of Representatives passed a bill to cut taxes for every […]
by Dustin Hite This week is the first post-funnel week, and we spent most of the week busy in debate on the House floor. Many of the bills passed unanimously or near unanimously. We passed bills ensuring that worker’s compensation pays for prosthetics which are necessary due to a work related injury; strengthening laws and […]
February 23rd, 2022 Oskaloosa, Iowa – Oskaloosa Mayor Dave Krutzfeldt swore in Oskaloosa’s newest police officer at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Officer Gage VanGorp began his police career with the Oskaloosa Police Department on February 7th, 2022. Officer VanGorp is from New Sharon, where he attended North Mahaska schools and competed in football and track. […]
February 23rd, 2022 Oskaloosa, Iowa – The Mahaska County Board of Supervisors met on Tuesday, February 22nd, at 9 am in the 3rd-floor conference room of the courthouse. Mahaska County Chair Mark Groenendyk was absent from the meeting, so Vice-Chair Steve Wanders then presided. The first motion was to go into a public hearing for […]
