On Saturday, February 26th, the Eddyville / Blakesburg Jazz Band placed 1st in class 2A at the Indian Hills Jazz Festival in Ottumwa. Several members of the band earned Outstanding Soloist Awards for their solo performances: Brooke Lunsford; alto sax, Kai Ishida; vibes, Jacob Lane; tenor sax, Heath Rice; trombone, Tanner Powers; vibes, Anna Haselhuhn; […]
School was delayed 2 hours, but that was not enough time for mother nature to help out those that live on the rural gravel roads make it to their destinations. An Eddyville-Blakesburg school bus driver, Ernest Davis, lost control of the 1999 Bluebird School Bus he was driving at around 9:56 am on February 28, […]
It’s been a few weeks since I have done a ‘Where in Mahaska County?” The last time we played this, Steffi Gursky guessed the location correctly as the City Council Chambers. This time I have a slightly more difficult one, (I hope) and will announce the correct answer later this evening versus how I have […]
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 […]
Des Moines, IA- Rep. Leonard Boswell will have a member of his staff in Montezuma and Oskaloosa, Tuesday, March 1st, for open office hours. Greg Johnson, Boswell’s District Representative, will be at: Montezuma City Hall from 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Oskaloosa Public Library from 11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon Johnson will be on hand […]
OSKALOOSA – Do you or a loved one have congestive heart failure? Do you live with or care for someone with congestive heart failure? If so, you should attend Mahaska Health Partnership’s Free Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Workshop on Saturday, March 12. The workshop, being offered on MHP’s campus in Oskaloosa from 9 a.m. to […]
Schools Delayed 2 hours: Oskaloosa Oskaloosa Christian Eddyville-Blakesburg Fremont Albia Centerville Ottumwa Moravia Keota Chariton Davis County Last updated 6:34 am
I started last week showing some of Iowa’s namesake ships, and the efforts by one of two groups to save her as a museum. Unlike the USS Iowa, the USS Des Moines has little of the fame her bigger sister had. CA-134 USS Des Moines had it’s start on May 28th of 1945 just as […]
1998: The temperature remained above freezing at the Dubuque airport for the 14th consecutive day, a rare occurrence during the winter months. The month would finish as the warmest February on record in eastern Iowa. 1954: Virtually no snow fell in Iowa for the first 24 days of the month before a storm struck from […]
Center court at Penn Central Mall in Oskaloosa played host as a small airport Saturday afternoon. The members of Ottumwa Radio Control Flyers club were on hand to demonstrate radio controlled aircraft and their club. Dennis Reid was on hand flying a small electric powered RC aircraft. Reid has been a member of the club […]
