Carlisle News

Spurred by the request of Hartford residents, state officials plan to reduce speed limits and add an additional turn lane at an intersection along Iowa Highway 5 next summer.

Long-time Pleasant Hill mayor Phil Hildebrand, 78, was ousted Tuesday in a bid for re-election, garnering the least votes among the three candidates.

Indianola voters ousted longtime mayor Jerry Kelley, 66, who received the fewest votes at 391.

When Gov. Chet Culver issued a 10 percent across-the-board cut earlier this month, he encouraged school districts to use their cash reserves to make up for the loss of state money.

Peggy Jean Goodhue, 75, of Carlisle, passed away Saturday, October 17, 2009, at her home.

Editor's note: this is the second in a three-part series about the Carlisle Area Historical Society.

Bicycles, pumpkins and fall weather will be the theme for two new community events next weekend.

When the snow and cold weather hits this winter a new business in Carlisle will seem more like a tropical paradise.

Last week we looked back at the early history of Iowa City Music Study Club. Today we shall look ahead to the programs that our members and guests will enjoy this year.

A Carlisle man has invented a device that he says can save heavy construction equipment owners and operators millions of dollars and someday bring as many as 1,000 jobs to Warren County.

In a recent edition of Cityview , Duffy's cartoon shows Gov. Culver as Mr. Incredible in regards to the current problem with the State Film Tax Incentives.

Football fans at last week's Carlisle Community School District home opener were treated to a new scoreboard and larger concession stand as a three-part renovation project of the stadium was finished this year.

Tilly Woodward passed out some valuable advice as she swept up excess glitter during the Valley Junction Artstop event last weekend.

Other unofficial Des Moines-area school board election results: Bondurant-Farrar: Mike McNichols, 50, and Kristin Swift, 39, earned the two available at-large seats.

On a drizzly Wednesday morning the sky was gray and the ground soft and muddy, but at the Central Iowa Shelter & Services building, Blooming Prairie Nursery from Carlisle, IA was brightening up the day outside the front entrance by planting some love in the form of flowers.

'I grew that.' Jennie Smith relishes delivering those three words to diners at Le Jardin.

Bomb squad investigators are inspecting several long cylindrical devices found on a highway in Carlisle.

Leighton, Ia. - The evolution of Iowa's wine industry is hitting its next level as mechanical harvesters begin working the grape harvest.

New kid. New school. New year. Faith Wortherly, 10, sat quietly on a bench just inside the front door at Western Hills Elementary School.

A string of more than 30 burglaries in Indianola and Carlisle have police officers looking for suspects and encouraging people to lock their cars.