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The Montgomery County Democrats will hold their organizing caucus on Monday, Feb 7, at 7 p.m. Agenda items include: precinct committee persons, delegates to county convention and county platform resolutions.Every two years the political parties of Iowa hold a party caucus to determine precinct...
Around 3:29 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 19, the Red Oak Fire Department was dispatched to 104 E. Elm Street in Villisca on a report of smoke coming from the structure. Residents were evacuating.At 3:32 p.m. firefighters reported light smoke coming from the basement area. The residence was checked. No...
The Montgomery County Emergency Management Commission has finalized the county’s emergency management budget.At a meeting of the Montgomery County Emergency Management Commission on Jan. 17, a public hearing was held to discuss an amendment to the current 2021-22 FY budget. Montgomery County...
Charles E. Richards was a lifetime Red Oak resident and practicing attorney in Red Oak since the early 1970s. He served as a Montgomery County Magistrate for many years. In addition to many other boards he served on, he was a Red Oak Library Trustee for most of the 1980s. The bequest is an...
The Red Oak City Council is considering a proposal for grant funding. At the regular city council meeting on Jan. 17, the council met with Michelle Franks, executive director with Golden Hills Resource Conservation and Development. Franks was on hand to share details of the Community-Heart and Soul...
The 2022 Republican Caucus in Montgomery County is scheduled for Monday, Feb. 7, at the White Fair Building, within the County Fairgrounds on Legion Park in Red Oak. Doors will open at 6 p.m. for check-in, and will close at 7 p.m. when the caucus begins. The caucus is open to all registered...
The Montgomery County Development Corporation (MCDC) met Jan. 14 for its regular monthly meeting.MCDC executive director Steve Adams informed the board they had received a $10,000 Rural Housing Assessment grant from the Iowa Economic Development Authority.“This will allow us to do an assessment,...
When Nishna Productions announced the closing of its redemption center at the end of 2021, it wasn’t welcome news in the area.In fact, two Red Oak organizations that rely heavily on the redemption center, the Optimists and Rotary Club, began scrambling to find alternative plans.The Optimists and...
The community of Red Oak is mourning the loss of Vana Redd, 12, who died tragically in a pedestrian traffic accident Monday evening, Jan. 10.Melissa Shirley, Vana’s aunt, described her as being free spirited and loving. Shirley said Vana and her siblings came to Red Oak to live with them in August...