Editors note: This is the first of a multi-part story on Mahaska Health Partnership and it’s construction project. I had an opportunity to sit down with MHP’s CEO Jay Christensen Monday morning and discuss some of the Hospitals steps and plans after the urban renewal vote. The Mahaska County Supervisors had voted down an urban […]
“Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.” But what was Iowa, and for that matter Mahaska County and Oskaloosa before the time she was a State? Some of the first European’s to map and explore the area that contains Iowa was Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet. These men traveled the Mississippi River […]
25 year old Brandi Vink of Pella was traveling south on Highway 14 near the 49 mile marker when she observed oncoming traffic and tried to move over more towards the shoulder. As she neared the shoulder she encountered snow and slush and lost control of her 2007 Ford, causing it to contact the wire […]
An afternoon rollover accident left 3 injured on December 24. A 1998 Grand Cherokee driven by Craig Bovee, 41, of Marshalltown was traveling West on County G-76 half a mile from Highway 14. Bovee’s vehicle started to spin and went off the road on the right side. Bovee over corrected causing the vehicle to go […]
1962: Bitterly cold weather brought the temperature all the way down into the 20s below zero across northern and northeastern Iowa and daily records were broken at numerous locations across the state. The lowest reported temperatures included -26 F at Cascade, Decorah, and Grundy Center, -27 F at Independence, Marshalltown, and Oelwein, -28 F at […]
Oskaloosa, Iowa – From the book Proud Mahaska 1843-1900 by Semira A. Phillips. Available freely at the Internet Archive. 1852– Mr. White’s next attempt at taming a wild animal for the solid pleasure of its society was with a badger. The badger was not a success; boys would come around and poke sticks at it, […]
1983: Bitterly cold weather set in for nearly a week leading up to Christmas with the worst conditions experienced on December 23-25, as temperatures were rarely above zero and howling winds created very dangerous wind chills and deep snow drifts making travel all but impossible. For the four days from December 22-25 the statewide average […]
Charles Dickens – But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round… as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up […]
Phyllis Chambers, 83 of Eddyville was driving Northeast on Highway 137 when she became distracted and drifted into the left lane. Chambers correcting her actions drove back across the roadway and into the South ditch. Her 2000 Oldsmobile spun, then rolled over coming to rest upright on it’s wheels facing Southwest. The 9 am accident […]
Some local businesses were very busy last night just as the snow was starting to fly. Groceries, Gas and any of those last minute gifts and supplies were in high demand. Local Fareway employee Jakob McDowell said they had been really busy. He stated the biggest reason shoppers were there was Christmas food shopping. The […]
