Audubon News

Posted on Jan 29, 2010 by admin . Gov. Chet Culver is seeking a presidential disaster declaration for 28 Iowa counties, saying snow and ice storms have already caused at least $26 million in damages.

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As many as 220 line crew members from Iowa Rural Electric Cooperatives are focusing on western Iowa, working to restore electrical service to some 10,000 customers.

Thousands of Iowans remain without power three days after a winter storm covered Western and Central Iowa with a thick layer of ice.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is reporting power outages have caused the dumping of untreated wastewater into local streams and rivers.

After 22 years, Dorothy Hawkes wants to put down the chalk. Hawkes, a Solano Community College math instructor plans to retire in May 2010 after the spring semester.

" The Iowa Supreme Court's chief justice issued an order Tuesday limiting the hours clerk of court offices around the state are open to the public as a way to deal with reduced staffing.

Iowa will eliminate 205 court positions because of ongoing budget cuts, but the courts will not take the same 10 percent hit as other areas of government, judicial branch officials announced Thursday.

Community homecoming ceremonies for Iowa Army National Guard units mobilized for Operation Iraqi Freedom will be held in five different Iowa communities on Wednesday, October 28.

Essentially a character created by advertising executive William Fries, C.W. McCall was the instrumental figure behind the truck-driving craze that swept America in the mid-'70s. Fries was born November 15, 1928, in Audubon, IA, and while he displayed musical promise as a child, he was more interested in graphic design.

Spring was really in the hair this week. The clever turn of phrase came from readers including Hilda Brandt and Eric Hansen, Omaha; Steven Ozaydin and Dannie Tolman, Council Bluffs; Jeanene Pummel, Nebraska City; Robert Magee, Lincoln; and Jeff Hiser, Shenandoah, Iowa.

Audubon, Ia. - A plane crash near the Audubon airport marked the fifth time a crop duster has gone down in Iowa this month.

A plane crash near the Audubon airport marked the fifth time a crop duster has gone down in Iowa this month.

Services for Amandus Henry Thooft, 84, of Tyler will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St.