Category Archives: Local News
Trust Fund Grants $81,500 to Remove Blighted Houses in Southwest Iowa Communities
(Atlantic) The Southwest Iowa Housing Trust Fund has awarded $81,500 to demolish six dilapidated houses in three southwest Iowa communities. The grant includes one property in Griswold, two in Red Oak...
Nov 06, 2020
Atlantic Experiencing Worrisome Childcare Shortage
(Atlantic) Childcare Resource & Referral of Southwest Iowa is sounding the alarm on a childcare shortage in the Atlantic community. In the last two weeks, multiple childcare programs in Atlantic h...
Nov 06, 2020
Shenandoah teen transported to the hospital following a rollover accident
(Shenandoah) A Shenandoah teen was transported to the hospital following an accident in Page County Wednesday afternoon. The Page County Sheriff's Office was called to the single-vehicle rollover acci...
Nov 05, 2020
Iowa Governor Addresses Surge in COVID-19 Cases
(Des Moines) Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds says Iowa is not alone in surging COVID-19 cases across the state. Reynolds says increased cases of the virus are showing up across the Midwest and the rest of ...
Nov 05, 2020
State Auditor releases report on a special investigation of the City of Hastings
(Des Moines) Auditor of State Rob Sand today released a report on a special investigation of the City of Hastings for the period December 1, 2018 through May 31, 2020. The special investigation was re...
Nov 05, 2020
Audubon School Board Approves Plans and Specs for $7.5 Million School Renovation
(Audubon) During a special session the Audubon School Board Wednesday night approved the final plans and specifications for their middle/high school renovation project. Superintendent Eric Trager says...
Nov 05, 2020
Atlantic Police Chief has sleeves cut off for fundraiser
(Atlantic) The Pink Patch Project involving the Atlantic Police Department continues to be a big hit. Atlantic Police Chief Dave Erickson during Wednesday's City Council Meeting had his sleeves cut of...
Nov 04, 2020
Atlantic City Council passes 3rd and Final Reading of Ordinance to Convert 22nd and Olive to a Four-Way Stop
(Atlantic) The Atlantic City Council Wednesday evening voted to pass the third and final reading of an ordinance that converts the intersection at 22nd and Olive to a four-way stop. The Community Prot...
Nov 04, 2020
Montgomery County man arrested for delivery of Methamphetamine
(Red Oak) A Red Oak man was booked into Montgomery County Corrections on a drug charge Wednesday. According to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, 40-year-old Robert Lee Bopp has been charged with...
Nov 04, 2020
Pheasant season opens amid unseasonably warm weather
(Area) Despite warmer than normal weather for this time of year the opening of Iowa's pheasant hunting season has still gone over well. Kelsey Fleming is a Private Lands Biologist in Southwest Iowa. S...
Nov 04, 2020
