Montezuma, Iowa – Nearly 400 people joined authorities today, Sunday, May 30th, to look for missing Xavior Harrelson. Sunday, May 30th, is Xavior’s 11th birthday. He is described as having brown hair and blue eyes. He’s approximately 4 feet 9 inches tall, and weighs 100 pounds. The public search parties helped investigators push out the […]
Montezuma, Iowa – Concerned citizens, off-duty first responders, and more gathered Sunday at 9 am in the north parking lot of the Montezuma High School. They set out in search of missing 10-year-old Xavior Harrelson, who was last seen on the afternoon of Thursday, May 27th, possibly wearing blue pajama bottoms and a red T-shirt […]
Fremont Lions Club members placed flags throughout the community Memorial weekend. The effort is part of project that will place flags in the public right-of-way on five holidays including Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, Labor Day and Veteran’s Day. Lions members placed more than 50 flags and continue to take orders.
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The Oskaloosa Vendor and Farmers Market has found its way back onto the square in downtown Oskaloosa in front of the Mahaska County Courthouse. For the past few years, it had been located under the marquee sign of Penn Central Mall. Gene Davis was on hand Saturday, selling honey and beeswax products […]
(Oskaloosa, Iowa) – Oskaloosa Main Street has been designated as an accredited Main Street™ program for meeting rigorous performance standards. Each year, Main Street America and its partners announce the list of accredited programs to recognize their exceptional commitment to preservation-based economic development and community revitalization through the Main Street Approach™. “We are proud to […]
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa –Bates Funeral Chapel of Oskaloosareceived the Iowa Award of Funeral Service Excellence at the 141st Annual Iowa Funeral Directors Association (IFDA) Convention held May 18-20, 2021at the Iowa Event Center & Hilton Downtown Des Moines Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa Award of Funeral Service Excellence recognizes a funeral home’s […]
by Ken Rozenboom The legislature has officially finished the 2021 legislative session. Republicans in the legislature set out this session with ambitious goals as the session began after nearly a year of dealing with the COVID pandemic. Iowans were eager to get back to the lives they knew and move Iowa forward. Throughout the summer […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – In a ceremony that more closely resembled graduation ceremonies before the pandemic, the students from the Oskaloosa High School Class of 2021 stepped across the stage, accepting their diplomas. Oskaloosa Schools Superintendent Paula Wright welcomed everyone to the ceremony. “It is the culmination of 13 years of hard work, the realization […]
by Phyllis Sutton All school Alumni Banquet was held Saturday night at the EBF Highschool. We honored the classes of 2020 and 2021, the class of 1971, and the class of 1970, as they missed their fifty-year reunion due to COVID-19. Burdell Hensley opened the evening by recounted how he came to teach at Eddyville […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – US Senator Joni Ernst was in Oskaloosa on Saturday morning meeting with officials from Mahaska County and Oskaloosa about a project the two entities have been partnering on. The project is a by-pass for traffic to help alleviate heavy truck traffic passing through downtown Oskaloosa and some residential areas of the community. […]
