Eddyville News

Despite the urging of supporters, the Oskaloosa City Council voted to return funding to the Mahaska County Emergency Management Office back to $1 per capita.

The town's library has many supporters, and Friends of the Library, a nonprofit group, wanted to thank them.

O.B. Nelson Post 3 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 775 will host a Memorial Day service at the Ottumwa Park shelter house at 10 a.m. Monday.

They found the best man for the job. After a closed-session Oskaloosa City Council meeting this past Saturday, Michael Schrock Jr.

Working for Wind in Siouxland Northwest Iowa Manure Spill A local teen nearly fell to her death while trying to retrieve her cell phone this morning.

An Eddyville business began cleaning up Friday after a spill at its plant in Monroe County took place on Thursday, the Department of Natural Resources reports.

Eddyville, Ia. - State environmental officials say liquid from an Eddyville company that makes food additives leaked into a tributary of the Des Moines River on Friday.

Attorney General Tom Miller has filed eight new liquor license revocation complaints against Iowa bars for violating Iowa's Smokefree Air Act.

Darroll Raurk is a blur as he bowls the Bocce ball. General education and intellectually disabled students played side by side as part of Special Olympics Iowa's "Project UNIFY" Tuesday morning at Oskaloosa High School.

They made it fun for all. A few William Penn students learned a lesson about teaching children with special needs Tuesday morning.

I begin today with an apology to you, the reader, and Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, whom I misquoted in Wednesday's newspaper.

In the summer of 1974 --- the year before Operation Rice Bowl was started as a response to a drought in Africa --- Mary Oldham was born in Eddyville, Iowa, to parents who had a farm of pigs, corn, soybeans and ...

The police department in one southeast Iowa town is dissipating. The Eddyville police car will no longer be on the scene of a crime or accident.

Wapello County is expanding its law enforcement responsibilities under a new agreement with the city of Eddyville.

The Eddyville-Blakesburg School Board heard from a large group of parents who are passionate about keeping the Eddyville Childcare Center open full time.

The Eddyville Police Department may close soon as the city council hopes to begin contracting for law enforcement services through the Wapello and Mahaska County sheriff's departments.

Gene Davis of Eddyville spends most of his time keeping the rest of us on time. Davis owns and operates Busy Bee Clock Repair in Eddyville.

The Iowa Egg Council's entries for the White House Easter Egg Decorating Contest are on display in the foyer of the Oskaloosa Public Library through the month of January.

William Penn students indulged in the confrontational mind of a well-known comedian named Preacher Moss Thursday at the student union.

City Attorney and acting city manager Randy DeGeest and Police Chief Jake McGee met with the Civil Service Commission on Thursday to discuss the search for a new fire chief.