Indianola News

Shops and restaurants in the West Glen Town Center look forward to this time of year.

Nate Hansen, a former NCAA Division III champ and Div. I assistant coach, is the new head wrestling coach at Simpson College, the Indianola, Iowa-based school announced Tuesday.

A new electronic cigarette store has opened on The Square, and an area businessman is hoping smokers give the products a puff.

Five individuals with ties to the Indianola Community School District were inducted into the Indianola High School Wall of Distinction on Sunday.

Des Moines police officer Roger Hildreth suffered a fatal heart attack while at the police station.

Pool officials discovered a problem with the main circulation pump at Veteran's Memorial Pool on Tuesday, May 15, and immediately began the search for a solution.

Warren County Sheriff Jim Lee is retiring at the end of his term after more than 30 years in office.

More than 60 classic cars and trucks filled an Indianola parking lot on Saturday night for the first Classic Car and Truck Cruise Night of the summer.

Some 3,000 Warren County residents were notified Friday that their personal information may have been scattered by the wind in the aftermath of a December fire at a human services office.

In Boone, Iowa, heavy metal thunders through city limits on an hourly basis in the form of a few dozen graffitti-laden boxcars being pulled by brutally powerful 180-ton locomotives.

Some 3,000 Warren County residents have been notified that their personal information may have been exposed in the aftermath of a December fire.

A fire in December and a waste-handling error two months later may have exposed confidential records in the Warren County office of the Iowa Department of Human Services.

* Art Club/Gallery : Stipend of $1,741 reduced to $697 TOTAL DIFFERENCE : Reduced funding by $5,923 * Drama/Thespians Club : Stipend of $1,045 eliminated for future sponsors.

Just in time for graduation Indianola seniors can finish their high school careers knowing that Indianola High School has been named the tenth best high school in Iowa by the 2012 U.S. News and World Report.

Survivors include her husband, Bill; one daughter, Kristine Cooper of Hamilton; her mother, Marian Wallace of Craig; two sisters, Louise Peckham of Indianola, Iowa, and Charlotte Brown of Creston, Iowa; one brother, Dwayne Wallace of Manson, Iowa; and three grandchildren.

'I like to think of mom as a collaborator. They are her words, I just adapted them for the script,' said Michele Larche of Indianola, director of the show.