Residents have made their voices clear that they approved of Mahaska County Emergency Management’s response to the floods of 2010. 43 voters (88%) voted yes in our poll, meanwhile 6 voters (12%) voted no. The question of the week poll is unscientific and does not represent the views of Oskaloosa News. This week’s question deals […]
The rumors of it’s closing are not true, that according to the manger. After some people had posted of it’s closing and their being forced to move on facebook prompted many rumors to circulate. The manger went on to say that the owner has not sold to anyone else, and the park is not going […]
1993: A summer of record-breaking rainfall and flooding continued as thunderstorms dumped heavy rain across portions of southwestern, central, and eastern Iowa. Between 3 and 5 inches of rain fell during the early morning hours in a swath roughly along Interstate 80 from Guthrie County to Polk County, drenching the Walnut Creek headwaters and resulting […]
1979: Several tornadoes touched down across Iowa mostly producing minor damage, except for one particularly violent tornado that produced F3 to F4 damage in southwestern portions of the state. This tornado tracked from south of Glenwood, through Tabor, just south of Shenandoah, and to Blanchard striking rural areas but fortunately missing most towns along its […]
We at Osky News are interested in your opinions. That is why we have added an election opinion poll. It contains all of the candidates on the ballot this year excluding public measures and judge retentions. The poll has been placed on a separate page which can be found on the page menu. The page […]
Mahaska County’s CERT Team showed their spirit of service and desire to help and be apart of our community. When flooding forced Mary Furnalds from her home, she left nearly everything behind. Yesterday afternoon and evening, members of the CERT team went to her aid. Once the water had receded from her home, it was […]
Oskaloosa Woman Crochets Her Way to Success at Iowa State Fair Oskaloosa Woman Crochets Her Way to Success at Iowa State Fair Jessica Weinreich of Oskaloosa earned Best of Show honors in the Fabric and Threads Crochet contest judged prior to the start of the 2010 Iowa State Fair. Other results of the fair are […]
It happens, the city tap water starts to be not so fresh, might be brown or not be so great to smell. At times especially on dead end water lines the water can become stagnate, turn brown from silt or other deposits such as rust. Oskaloosa Water Department is shown here flushing a city line […]
Blake Lanphier, son of Allen Lanphier of Oskaloosa and Jodi and Brian Pollpeter of New Sharon Iowa has been showing goats in the FFA and is President of the North Mahaska FFA. This year has turned out to be a one of the best. It started out good, and has just gotten better. Blakes wether […]
Doing in life what you love makes living life all the better. So when drag racing’s Tim Hay lined up for his pass in the finals round, at Eddyville Raceway Park, the most recent stop on the World Fuel Altered Nationals, no one would even imagine this would be “the final pass”. Reports of the […]
