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Updated: Atlantic Schools Superintendent Compliments Firefighters for Quick Response
(Courtesy of the Cass County Sheriff's Office, Deputy Ben Bartholomew) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_u85jEMBi0 (Atlantic) Atlantic Firefighters were called to a roof fire at the Atlantic Middle Sc...
Tom Robinson Jul 27, 2021 default
Fire reported at the Atlantic Middle School
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_u85jEMBi0&t=12s (Atlantic) Atlantic, Lewis, and Marne fire departments were called to the Atlantic Middle School at 12:35 p.m. for a fire on the roof of the Middl...
Mandy Billings Jul 27, 2021
Guthrie County Supervisors approve Audubon County 28E Agreement for Public Health services
(Guthrie Co.) The Guthrie County Board of Supervisors approved a 28E Agreement with Audubon County for Public Health services at their meeting this morning. As of July 1st, there were no longer any re...
Mandy Billings Jul 27, 2021
Montgomery County Man Faces Sex Abuse Charges
(Corning) The Adams County Sheriff's Office arrested a Montgomery County man on four warrants for sexual abuse. Authorities on July 22 arrested 74-year old David Charles Crawford of Villisca with 3rd-...
Tom Robinson Jul 27, 2021
Atlantic School Nurse talks COVID and School Vaccinations
(Atlantic) Atlantic School District Head Nurse Laura Freund is looking forward to a school year without masks and some of the other mitigation strategies related to COVID-19. Freund notes there will s...
Tom Robinson Jul 27, 2021
CAM Major School Renovation Project Narrowed to Two Options
(Anita) A straw poll taken at last week's CAM Community Engagement Meeting resulted in a split between two options on the school district's major renovation upgrade plan. CAM Schools Superintendent Pa...
Tom Robinson Jul 27, 2021
Cass County COVID-19 Cases Increasing
(Atlantic) Cass County Public Health Nurse Linda Edelman says COVID-19 cases have increased over the past couple of weeks in Cass County and other counties across the state. Edelman says people are tr...
Tom Robinson Jul 27, 2021
Audubon County Supervisors set to act on 28E Agreement with Guthrie County for Public Health
(Audubon) The Audubon County Board of Supervisors are expected to act during their next meeting on a jurisdictional sharing agreement with Guthrie County Public Health. As of July 1st, there were no l...
Western Iowa Today Jul 27, 2021
Corning man arrested on an Adair County warrant
(Adair Co.) The Adair County Sheriff's Office arrested Douglas Wayne Ruse, 57, of Corning, on July 22nd on a warrant for Contempt - Violation of a No Contact/Protective Order. Ruse was held on $300 ca...
Mandy Billings Jul 26, 2021
Seven injured in a single-vehicle accident in Mills County
(Mills Co.) Seven people suffered non-life threatening injuries in a single-vehicle accident at the intersection of Levi Road and Mahaffey Road in Mills County on Saturday. The Mills County Sheriff's ...
Mandy Billings Jul 26, 2021