Ossian News

The eighth annual National Mentoring Month is being celebrated during the month of January.

Sign-up has begun for a class being offered by Helping Services for Northeast Iowa.

Northeast Iowa Community College's Calmar campus will hold its fall commencement ceremony at 7:00 p.m. Friday, December 18th in the Wilder Resource Center auditorium.

Winneshiek County Public Health will be holding an H1N1 flu vaccination clinic from 2:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Tuesday at the DeSales School in Ossian.

Employees of the Decorah office of Bank of the West have made a donation to the Winneshiek County Sheriff's Office DARE program.

The Winneshiek County Board has accepted bids on rock. Bruening Rock Products and Wiltgen Construction will charge between $5.00 to $5.237 per ton to deliver the rock at five county highway shops.

Ossian, Ia. - Authorities say a Fayette man died after he was pinned by a small bulldozer that he was working on at a construction equipment company in Ossian.

Officials say 60-year-old Patrick O'Shaughnessy was working on the bulldozer on Monday at Reilly Construction when it apparently slipped off the jacks, pinning him.

Posted on Oct 13, 2009 by Admin . Patrick Oa TMShaughnessy, 60, of Fayette, was killed when a piece of equipment he was working on at Reilly Construction in Ossian fell on top of him Monday morning.

As Ossian Foley, 33, tells it, a few weeks ago he ventured out for his very first night on the town after moving to Iowa City from Brooklyn, N.Y., for graduate school at the University of Iowa.

After shadowing police until 2:30 a.m. Friday morning, Press-Citizen University of Iowa reporter Brian Morelli could have added many more anecdotal examples to his story today on late-night violence on the pedestrian mall.

As Ossian Foley, 33, tells it, a few weeks ago he ventured out for his very first night on the town after moving to Iowa City from Brooklyn, N.Y., for graduate school at the University of Iowa.

Damage to crop land in northeast Iowa is still being assessed after a severe hailstorm more than a week ago.

Elsie Adelaide Bond, 86, formerly from Mount Prospect, Ill., and Cedar Rapids, passed away Thursday, July 16, 2009, at Seminole Shores Nursing Home in Muskegon, Mich., from a courageous struggle with cancer.

There are still spaces available at NICC's Farm Safety Day this Thursday. Families with children from 4 to 12 years old are invited to register for the program, which is about keeping safe when visiting or living on a farm.

Hannah Ranum is the 2009 Winneshiek County Fair Queen. Ranum, the daughter of David and Brenda Ranum of Decorah, was selected from five candidates for the position.

Kenneth Huinker, 77, of Calmar, died Friday, July 3, 2009, at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn.