Bobzilla’s Bicycle Werks, 1718 Pella Ave., in Oskaloosa, will hold aseries of repair clinics during the month of January. The clinics are designed to teach you skills that will help keep your bike running smoothly, efficiently and safely. They are NOT designed to breathe new life into shot or worn-parts, or to replace regular professional […]
1942: From New Year’s Eve 1941 into New Year’s Day 1942 a severe winter storm dumped heavy snowfall from southwestern Iowa through the northeastern corner of the state. Snowfall amounts of 10 to 20 inches were common from Page County to Black Hawk County. The highest accumulation was 19.8 inches of snow at Des Moines […]
The Salvation Army just concluded their 2010 bell ringing season and want to thank everyone who helped exceed our goal. Your generous contributions in the kettles this year exceeded 30,350.06 dollars. Our goal was 26,000.00. You exceeded the goal by 14.33% so we will be able to help more families and individuals this year. We […]
Anyone that owns a website that keeps track of their visitors knows it’s easy to understand why they call it the World Wide Web. Osky News is no different. Some interesting info about who reads and visits Osky News. Currently we have just over 600 unique readers a day to the website, give or take […]
Oskaloosa — The Mahaska Health Partnership Cancer Care and Infusion Center’s Annual Christmas Basket Auction raised $1,142. This year’s proceeds were designated to benefit New Hope Community, Inc., a community center located in the old Jefferson School Building in Oskaloosa that provides children and family programs in an economically depressed area where no other supervised […]
Lt. Plum stated that the Oskaloosa PD will have extra officers on patrol New Years Eve, and would like to remind people to designate a driver. This year they will be targeting drinking and driving, speeders and general operations violators. Plum stated that “typically in the past 5 years we don’t a problem of drinking […]
OSKALOOSA — Board-certified Family Practice Physician Dr. Nicholas Messamer has joined with the physicians of Mahaska Health Partnership Specialty Services and will be relocating his practice to MHP’s campus beginning Jan. 1. Dr. Messamer’s new office will be located on the ground floor of the Medical Specialty Center on the north side of MHP’s campus. […]
This is our Year in Review for 2010 video. Everything you see here is ripped from the website. We look forward to serving Oskaloosa in 2011. Email us at info@oskynews.org if you have any questions or comments. Also, don’t forget all the extra’s you can find on our Facebook Page.
It has been one heck of a year. On August 6th Osky News began serving the citizens of Oskaloosa and the surrounding areas. The first story we covered was the sweet corn serenade followed soon after by Dog Hollow Rendezvous. After a brief weekend reprieve, Osky News began covering the floods of 2010. That was […]
Iowa is known for it’s wait a minute the weather will change life style. Tomorrow and Friday will be no different with highs expected in the mid forties. It sure does help those that want to clean up their drives of extra snow and ice from our previous snowfalls, but it will lead to some […]
