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By Jerry Mackey: The annual Musco Lighting Fall Challenge provided non stop racing action both Friday and Saturday, October 15 & 16 as the 2021 racing season came to a close on the Mahaska County…

With three more home football games to go and Kinnick Stadium facing severe staffing shortages, the University of Iowa is looking for “game day volunteers" to work stadium gates, parking and other areas beginning Saturday.…

Here are the latest figures on coronavirus in Iowa.  Another 97 people died from COVID-19 as of Tuesday (10/12), raising the pandemic total to 6748.  Two of those deaths were in Jasper County, two in…

Jasper County voters chose a new state representative Tuesday (10/12). Republican Jon Dunwell defeated Democrat Steve Mullan in a special election to fill the vacant House District 29 seat.  Dunwell received 2820 votes--nearly 60 percent…

There’s been a small outbreak of COVID-19 in the Mahaska County Jail.  Because of that, inmates will not be allowed visitors until further notice.  The Mahaska County Sheriff’s Office will also be reinstating all of…

A recent study shows that one in three families is struggling with buying diapers on a regular basis.  To help those families, Sieda Community Action is holding a diaper drive during October.  Brian Dunn is…

Mahaska Health will soon have a new chief executive.  Kevin DeRonde stepped down Thursday (10/7).  He had been with Mahaska Health since February 2018.  Before that, DeRonde had been chief at Des Moines Orthopedic Surgeons…

As previously reported,  Oskaloosa City Clerk and Finance Director Amy Miller was appointed last Monday night to serve as Oskaloosa interim city manager when Michael Schrock steps down at the end of the month.  No…

You’ve heard the joke about someone being so old that their birthday cake has enough candles to cause a fire.  That could apply to the Oskaloosa Fire Department, as they’re celebrating their 150th birthday Saturday (10/9)…

Two thefts, one suspect.  The Wapello County Sheriff’s Office says it received two separate reports of thefts an hour apart in the early morning hours Friday (10/1).  The first was in the 10,000 block of…