Category Archives: Local News
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Atlantic Mayoral Candidate Grace Garrett calls Atlantic a "Gold Nugget"
(Atlantic) Atlantic Mayoral Candidate Grace Garrett says she wants to showcase Atlantic as a great place to work, play, and call home. Garrett says Atlantic has a great foundation and calls the City a...
Tom Robinson Sep 02, 2021
Atlantic City Council approves Sanitary Sewer Hook-up for Building at 60365
(Atlantic) The Atlantic City Council voted to allow a new building at 60365 Glacier Road to hook up to the City's sanitary sewer line to accommodate new business at the site. This is a commercial prop...
Tom Robinson Sep 01, 2021
Achievement Center in Atlantic classified as a school zone
(Atlantic) Atlantic Schools Superintendent Steve Barber says thanks to the DOT and Kirk Knutsen they have classified the Achievement Center as a school zone with a 35 mile per hour speed zone. Startin...
Mandy Billings Sep 01, 2021
Region 4 COVID-19 Weekly Update
(Des Moines) The Iowa Department of Public Health's weekly data shows 655 additional positive cases of COVID-19 in Region 4 from Wednesday, August 25 through Wednesday, September 1. Over the past seve...
Mandy Billings Sep 01, 2021
Harlan Police Report
(Harlan) The Harlan Police Department arrested Joseph Allen Schoemann, 40, of Harlan, following a call for service on Tuesday. Schoemann was transported to the Shelby County Jail where he was charged ...
Mandy Billings Sep 01, 2021
National Shortages of Testing Supplies Impacts COVID-19 Tests
(Atlantic) With COVID-19 cases on the rise again across much of the country, testing supplies are in high demand. Locally, this impacts the availability of rapid COVID-19 testing, where results are re...
Mandy Billings Sep 01, 2021
Montgomery County Sheriff's Report
(Red Oak) The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office arrested 38-year old Adam Blake Sandahl of Essex for driving while barred. Authorities transported Sandahl to Montgomery County Corrections and held hi...
Tom Robinson Sep 01, 2021
Iowa Statewide Interoperable Communications System discussed at Cass County Supervisors meeting
(Atlantic) The Cass County Board of Supervisors held a lengthy discussion this morning on the Iowa Statewide Interoperable Communications System (ISICS). ISICS provides public safety agencies, first r...
Mandy Billings Aug 31, 2021
Vehicle strikes an apartment building in Creston
(Creston) A vehicle struck an apartment building in Creston this morning. The Creston Police Department says what was described as a white SUV ran over the grass area next to the apartment building at...
Mandy Billings Aug 31, 2021
Council Bluffs Man Sentenced to Prison for Firearm Offense
(Council Bluffs) John Allen Lindeman, Jr., age 26, of Council Bluffs, was sentenced on August 27th to 78 months in prison for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm. His term of imprisonment is ...
Mandy Billings Aug 31, 2021