MAHASKA COUNTY – Construction on Mahaska Health Partnership’s 52,000 square foot addition is well underway. The crews are currently working on structural steel and the building is really taking shape. By the end of April, MHP officials expect the pouring of concrete for internal floors to begin. Once complete, the new wing will house Surgical […]
ATTENTION RESIDENTS The City of Oskaloosa is proactively utilizing “pavement preservation strategies” to preserve its pavement infrastructure. The City will start pavement preservation activity in the downtown area. The activity is scheduled for April 16th, May 21st, and May 22nd of this year. GEE Asphalt Systems, Inc. is the contractor for this pavement preservation project. […]
Thousands of Iowa soldiers are returning home after lengthy overseas service, including the National Guard’s largest overseas deployment. In the Legislature, we’re working to expand help for our returning combat veterans. The goal is to make their transition back to civilian life as quick and easy as possible. This week, the Senate sent Senate File […]
Washington D.C., The debate over a tweet and if it was out of line for a U.S. Senator. Things really started to heat up after David Axelrod, former Senior Adviser to President Barack Obama and heading up Obama’s re-election campaign, called the Senator out on the tweet. Since then, the controversy has started to heat up. […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Mother Nature must have been upset at the Easter Bunny this year as she didn’t provide one of her nicest days to hunt eggs. Saturday was a big egg hunt day, and Family Video helped to kick it off by holding an Easter Egg hunt inside their A Avenue location. Patrick Shandley, […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – The race for the Mahaska County Supervisor seat has started to heat up, with 5 confirmed candidates having filed papers to fill the seat currently held by Supervisor Willie Van Weelden. Leighton, Iowa’s Denis Currier is one of two Democrats seeking the office. Sen. Tom Rielly is also seeking the seat for […]
Eddyville, Iowa – In a Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Press Release About 6:29 a.m. Saturday morning, the Monroe County Law Enforcement Center received a report that a house at 1017 734th Ave in rural Eddyville was fully engulfed [by fire]. Once emergency personnel arrived it was reported that there may be a person still inside […]
A LARGE NUMBER OF AREA RESIDENTS ARE ENJOYING THE USE OF THE MUTI-USE RECREATION TRAIL. WITH WHAT APPEARS TO BE AN EARLY SPRING, THE USE AND ENJOYMENT OF THE TRAIL ARE ONLY GOING TO INCREASE. THE OSKALOOSA POLICE DEPARTMENT WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE OF SOME OF THE CITY ORDINANCES REGULATING THE TRAIL’S USE: SOME […]
Iowa’s Unemployment Rate Drops To 5.3% Iowa Workforce Development announced this week that Iowa’s unemployment rate had dropped to 5.3% in the month of February as it continues to retain the 6th lowest unemployment rate in the nation. While the national average stayed the same as the previous month: 8.3% for the month of February, […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – Even names of events are running into the problem of sounding out of place with the near summer like conditions in Iowa. The 2012 Frostbuster started the racing season off at the Southern Iowa Speedway, even though frost hasn’t been on anyone’s mind for almost a couple of months now. Mike Van […]
