Montezuma News

Traffic is at a standstill on Interstate 80 near the 214 mile marker, between Ladora and Marengo, as water is flowing over the roadway.

They voiced their concerns at Tuesday's Oskaloosa School Board meeting. Two different parents of Oskaloosa Elementary School students expressed their frustrations over recent layoffs within the district.

Dick Bowers, 90, of Montezuma, Iowa, was making his first trip to Naval Base Ventura County since November 1942, to revisit where he was stationed during his time as one of the original Seabees.

Reclaiming land and protecting waterways from runoff contaminated by abandoned coal mines is a team effort, and several organizations gathered Tuesday morning just outside Beacon for a field day to celebrate those efforts.

Poweshiek County Republican Mike Mahaffey, who in 1996 lost by only 2 percentage points to Democratic Rep.

English Valleys sixth grader Rylee Voss of North English carries a music stand down the hallway of the Deep River-Millersburg Elementary School in Millersburg on the school's final day Tuesday.

Deep River-Millersburg Elementary School Principal Rhoda Harris starts off a symbolic relay run with Tasha Walters on the school's final day Tuesday in Millersburg.

A garage that caught fire early Tuesday morning required 12 fire trucks, 26 firefighters and more than four hours to extinguish.

A Montezuma woman has been arrested after police say she stole four paintings from a hospital.

In the Jan. 11 Register, a gentleman stated that there needed to be fewer school districts to level enrollments.

It's a sad chapter that local historians will be loath to record. Several newspapers that have served east-central Iowa communities since the late 1800s are coming to an end.

A weekend crash in Keokuk County sent a Heartland woman to the hospital. The crash happened just before 10 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Highways 92 and 21.