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The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors received an update on its insurance through the Iowa Communities Assurance Pool, or ICAP, which covered the county’s buildings, properties, and vehicles.The supervisors met with Rick Taylor, as well as ICAP representative Beau Hupke, at the April 25...
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig reminds eligible farm owners to apply for the 2023 Century and Heritage Farm Program through June 1.
The program was created by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation to recognize families who have owned...
The Red Oak School Board has agreed to a proposal that would scale back summer school classes.Red Oak Schools superintendent Ron Lorenz advised the board that due to dwindling participation rates and sunsetting of ESSER funds, the administrative team was proposing scaling back the summer school...
The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors has approved funding for work on the 250th Street Bridge in the Grant Township.Discussions about potential funding for the Beeson bridge located on 250th street west of G Avenue over the East Nishnabotna River had been taking place since Dec. 6, 2022, when...
The Green Hills Area Education Agency is continuing to do its part to assist school districts around the area. At a recent meeting with administrators with the Red Oak Community Schools district, Green Hills AEA Chief Administrator Jason Plorde said representatives from Green Hills were making a...
Rainfall in April was just over two inches but 1.5 inches below normal for the month. This comes after a drier than normal March. As a result, streamflows are down across much of the state, and conditions are generally deteriorating in the eastern two-thirds of Iowa. While all of the Drought...
A Red Oak woman has three published books to her credit, and more on the way.Ronda Wilkinson, a substitute teacher with the Red Oak Community School District, authored her first book, “There’s a Monster in My Cart,” in 2022. She followed that book with “Escaped,” a short novel and the first in a...
The Red Oak City Council has approved the hire of a new city administrator.At the regular Red Oak City Council meeting May 1, the council discussed an employment agreement resolution, a resolution of appointment, and a resolution of salary for Kyra Smith.Councilmember Brian Bills said Smith is a...
On May 2, 2023, 42-year-old Michael Kirk Josephson was found guilty of the crime of Assault, a simple misdemeanor, in Montgomery County Magistrate Court on Tuesday afternoon. The verdict was returned by a jury after a one-day trial and a little over 30 minutes of deliberations.
On Oct. 13, 2022,...
The community school districts in Carroll, Fremont-Mills, Logan-Magnolia, East Mills, and Stanton have been chosen to begin and/or reinvigorate agriculture education in their communities as part of a new farm to school program offered by the Center for Rural Affairs.
The schools were selected...