Author Archives: Tom Robinson
Nearly 150 John Deere Employees To Be Laid Off In Iowa
(Des Moines, IA) -- John Deere will lay off nearly 150 workers throughout Iowa next month. The company announced this week that 40 employees at the Des Moines Works facility will be laid off on Octobe...
Sep 18, 2025
Atlantic School Board to Decide on Multi-Million Dollar Bond Referendums in Special Meeting Thursday Evening
(Atlantic) The Atlantic School Board will take action on two resolutions at a special meeting on Thursday evening, September 18. One of the resolutions is for calling an election on the issuance of $2...
Sep 17, 2025
Rain Totals
Rain Totals: Anita-.75 Atlantic-.10 (KS95/KSOM Studios in Downtown Atlantic) Audubon-1.8 Bridgewater-.10 Darrin Petty-7 miles southwest of Atlantic-.30 Six Miles West of Atlantic-.25 Marne-.70 Massena...
Sep 17, 2025
Updated: The Flash Flood Warning for Guthrie County Has been allowed to Expire
(Des Moines) Original post: The National Weather Service in Des Moines issued a Flash Flood Warning for central Guthrie County at around 4:18 this morning. Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms had pr...
Sep 17, 2025
Former Simpson Star Haley Rasmussen Joins Storm's Women's Basketball Team as an Assistant Coach
(Indianola) Former Simpson College and Atlantic standout Haley Rasmussen has been hired as an Assistant Coach for the Simpson College women's basketball team. Simpson Head Coach Brian Niemuth stated o...
Sep 16, 2025
Griswold School District Sees Improvement in Open Enrollment Trends
(Griswold) The Griswold School District's open enrollment trend has been a topic of discussion for some time; however, it appears that the trend is improving. In other news, Henrichs reminded the boar...
Sep 16, 2025
Red Oak Man Arrested in Connection with Shopping Cart Fire
(Red Oak) Red Oak Police arrested a Montgomery County Man in connection with a shopping cart fire. Police arrested 22-year-old Michael Daniel Hohl of Red Oak on Monday on a charge of 5th-degree crimin...
Sep 16, 2025
Atlantic Girl's Fourth at 45th Mike Carr Invitational Cross Country Meet: Atlantic Boy's Sixth
(Ballard) The Atlantic girls finished fourth in the Class A Division at the 45th Annual Mike Carr Invitational Cross Country Meet at Ballard on Monday. Avilee Miller a Ballard freshman won the individ...
Sep 15, 2025
William "Bill" Larsen Obituary
William "Bill" Larsen, 66, of Atlantic, Iowa, died Monday, September 15, 2025, at University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Bill grew up outside of Atlantic on a family farm as the you...
Sep 15, 2025
Senior Cross Country Runner Katrina Williams is The KS 95.7 Amour Insurance Trojan Athlete of the Week
(Atlantic) Missing out on a state cross country berth last year has fueled Katrina Williams this season. So far, she has placed in the top ten at every meet, highlighted by a first-place finish last w...
Sep 15, 2025
