Garden Grove News

Test scores are up! OK, they're not up as much as Mormon Trail teachers, school board and administrators are looking for, but they are indeed on the upward trend, according to administrators' reports at last week's school board meeting.

Keith Claud Adair, an 88-year-old resident of Osceola, IA, died on Monday Feb. 13, 2012 at the Southern Hills Specialty Care Center in Osceola.

It started as a simple traffic stop and ended up as a chase through two states. Around eleven Sunday night Geneseo Police pulled over Roger Foust of Garden Grove, Iowa for an obstructed license plate.

Unofficial results are in for city elections held Nov. 8. In Humeston, Lester LaVern Tueth will take the mayor's seat at the council table, with 42 votes.

An early morning house fire claimed the life of rural Van Wert resident Matthew John Caldwell, 17, Sunday.