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Mahaska County Board meeting held today

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The Mahaska County Board began its new year Wednesday (1/2).  County Supervisors Steve Wanders and Steve Parker took their oaths of office after being elected last November.  County Attorney Andrew Ritland, Treasurer Connie Van Polen and Recorder Diane Upton Crookham were also sworn into office. Once the County Board got down to business, they approved a resolution approving up to $5.5 million in local option sales tax bonds for a new radio communication system for the County.  County Board Chairman Mark Groenendyk says while the Board hasn’t signed the contract with Racom for the radio system, that will be done once new County Attorney Andrew Ritland and consultant Ray Freeman go over the contract.

“Both parties understand that through the holidays, everything changing over over the (change in the) County Attorney (position)…..everybody’s just trying to get on the same page.  Everybody understands where we’re going.  It will be signed, it’s just a matter of where everybody’s comfortable with the contract and move forward.”

Groenendyk also says the County needs to find three sites to build towers for the radio system.  One would be south of New Sharon, another in Oskaloosa and the third north of Eddyville.

Thousands of sausage products recalled

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Thousands of pounds of sausage products may contain metal bits in them.  The USDA announced yesterday that R-L Zeigler Company has recalled nearly 12,000 pounds of its products.

The recalled items include the 24-oz plastic packages of “Zeigler a Tradition of Great Taste Red Hots” and its “Extra Hot Zeigler a Tradition of Great Taste Red Hots” version.

No word on how the metal pieces could have made it into the sausages and there are no reports of side effects to the products.

John Osborne’s dog traveled to brother TJ’s House Miles Away After Being Spooked by Fireworks

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John Osborne of Brothers Osborne and his wife Lucie Silvas had quite a scare when their dog, Barley, became spooked by New Year’s Eve fireworks and took off from their home while the two were out of the country.  However, the clever dog found a way to safety in a manner that even the most experienced dog-owner would marvel at.

According to a post by John, the goldendoodle traveled 5 miles from their home in East Nashville to his brother T.J.’s house. Needless to say, that’s a long way to trot. How she knew to go there? Nobody knows. “Unbelievable,” as John himself says.  Once arrived at her destination, the dog apparently “barked outside to make herself known,” Silvas explains in her own Instagram post describing the harrowing experience.

At any rate, the pup is now in safe hands—and seems to have had quite the caravan of friends looking out for her, as Silvas notes some “broke up their New Years celebrations to look for her.”

Silvas and Osborne married in 2015 in a spontaneous ceremony, which didn’t have all their friends and family present, but did have the dog overseeing the proceedings.

January 2nd: On this day

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On this day in 2015, Little Jimmy Dickens died aged 94 of cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke a few days earlier. The American country music singer was famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size, 4’11” (150 cm), and his rhinestone-studded outfits (which he is given credit for introducing into country music live performances). At the time of his death, he was the oldest living member of the Grand Ole Opry.

Precision Pulley and Idler expanding into Kentucky

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A Pella company is expanding into Kentucky.  Precision Pulley and Idler plans to start a $10.8 million manufacturing and distributing operation in Maysville and will hire 134 full-time employees over the next ten years.  The company supplies idlers, pulleys, bearings and other products.  PPI President and CEO Roger Brown says the Maysville facility allows additional capacity to meet the company’s growing demands.  The company operates 12 facilities in the U.S. and also has locations in Canada and Chile.  Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin says the jobs will benefit the economy in northeastern Kentucky.

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