The new facility that will house the Oskaloosa First Church of the Nazarene has continued to progress on the inside during the winter months. On Saturday, Church officials opened the facility to those wishing to see how work has progressed. Oskaloosa First Church of the Nazarene has been using its gymnasium since the fire that […]
An accident at 11:54 pm the night of January 20 resulted in 2 being sent to the Monroe County Hospital. 20 year old Cherese Lovell of Centerville was driving North, on Highway 5 near 240th St. in Monroe County, in her 1995 Oldsmobile Cutlass. Lovell crossed the center line of Highway 5 when it was […]
1909: Unseasonably warm weather pushed temperatures into the upper 60s and lower 70s across southeastern Iowa including a reading of 72 F at Keokuk which is just one degree shy of the all-time Iowa January record. Other reported high temperatures included 70 F at Bonaparte, Fairfield, and Keosauqua, 69 F at Bloomfield, and 68 F […]
Oskaloosa sent 12 students to participate in the Southeast Iowa Honor Band, held Saturday evening, at Iowa City West High School in Iowa City. Eddyville-Blakesburg added an additional 3 students making up the total of 278 total participants from all over Southeast Iowa. Oskaloosa band members that participated are as follows: Amber Brockman, Sam Adams, […]
2011 Youth Football Registration opens February 5, 2011! We will be at the Penn Central Mall from 10:00 am-2:00 pm. You can also stop by the YMCA! Oskaloosa Football League is a flag and tackle football program for the residents of Oskaloosa and it’s surrounding area. Youth in grades 1st to 6th are eligible. From […]
The Mahaska County Conservation Board held their Annual Bird Food Give Away from 9:00 a.m. until Noon on Saturday, January 22 at the Russell Wildlife Area. Residents brought their own buckets for collecting up to 10 gallons of cracked corn for bird feeding Bring your buckets out to the Conservation Center to get free cracked […]
First Step Oskaloosa is a group of five University of Iowa graduate students in the School of Urban and Regional Planning and the College of Public Health. We have been asked by Oskaloosa City manager Michael Schrock to look at solid waste disposal. Specifically, we are analyzing residential curbside recycling and garbage pickup practices, commercial […]
1982: Very hazardous winter weather struck Iowa for the third consecutive weekend with rain and freezing rain beginning in southwestern Iowa during the evening of January 21st then changing to snow at times, spreading northeastward overnight, and persisting into the morning of the 23rd in some areas. Southern Iowa was covered with a thick layer […]
IOWA CITY, IA (January 19, 2011) – The Board of Directors of MidWestOne Financial Group, Inc. appointed Tracy S. McCormick and Robert J. Latham to serve as Directors of the Company. They will complete the unexpired terms of W. Richard Summerwill and James G. Wake, both of whom have announced their retirement from the Board […]
OSKALOOSA – Mahaska Health Partnership Adult Medicine Nurse Practitioner Lisa Nelson urges women to get regular screenings to prevent cervical cancer. “A regular pap test is the best defense women have for protecting themselves against cervical cancer because abnormal cells can usually be detected before they become cancerous,” Nelson stressed. Cervical cancer occurs in the […]
