Pleasant Valley News

Less than two weeks after a Pleasant Hill mobile home park was evacuated due to flooding, almost all of the residents have returned to their homes.

Ted Schmidt hit a pair of home runs as the City High baseball team swept a doubleheader from Pleasant Valley 6-5 and 13-12 Tuesday at Mercer Park.

June 18, 2008-- People in Pleasant Hill, affected by the floods, are waiting for inspections to be complete before they can get back in their homes.

Residents across the metro area took advantage of good weather to clear out and clean up from last week's flooding: * The Nestvedt family of Indianola spent Father's Day on a tour of flooded areas that began at ...

The Rev. Madai Taylor wants to take his community back. He has been working hard to make Pleasant Valley live up to its name, but he wants the same for all of Fort Dodge.

Pleasant Valley Junior High School students Kevin Li, left, and Cody Corchado, both 13, play violin at the China earthquake relief fundraiser outside the Freight House in Davenport on Saturday.

The Rev. Madai Taylor cut a symbolic ribbon on his Early Intervention and Prevention program at the Agape Church Wheel of Compassion Ministries Thursday evening.

The Trojans gave up two unearned runs in the seventh inning and wasted a strong start by Greg Seims at West High.

Lauren Carter had gone to the girls state golf tournament twice already when she punched her ticket for a third trip Monday at Pleasant Valley.

Fort Dodge officials moved Monday night to knock down a vacant, trash-filled house in the Pleasant Valley neighborhood that's been deemed a threat to public health.

DES MOINES -- Maybe Tom Carey was right after all. The City High boys track coach and his top sprinter have been going back and forth throughout Kevin Dibbern's career in trying to determine the junior's best ...

TEAM SCORING 1. Iowa City West 43; 2. Pleasant Valley 42; 3. Marshalltown 26; 4. W.D.M. Valley 24; 5. Cedar Rapids Kennedy 21; 6. Waukee 20; 7. Clinton 18; 8. Ankeny 16; 9. Cedar Falls 15.25; 10.

Defending champion Noah Kittelson, a sophomore from Indianola, was second, with Boone's Dillon Hilsabeck taking third and Lavell Bell of Des Moines North in fourth. via Des Moines Register

“People are a little more cognitive.”

Springtime brought the Rev. Madai Taylor to the streets in an effort to confront drug activity in Pleasant Valley. via The Messenger

“I just kept right on going and shot it in.”

Pleasant Valley senior strikes twice in 3-1 win over BHS. By MATT LEVINS mlevins@thehawkeye.com Pleasant Valley High School senior Ryan Gould decided to skip playing soccer last year in favor of drama club, ... via Hawk Eye

“They're working hard on self-improvement.”

McKayla Kennedy shot 44 strokes to lead a trio of sophomores for the Little Hawks in a triangular at Pleasant Valley Golf Course. via Iowa City Press-Citizen

“I'm real proud of the way they came back today and got the win”

A day after falling to the Golden Hawks in the EIHC meet, the Regals came back and won a dual Tuesday at Pleasant Valley 192 to 214. via Iowa City Press-Citizen

" Lynn Kueck, the mayor of Algona for about a decade, has abruptly resigned. His resignation was effective Wednesday, according to two city council members. via The Messenger

“I knew Allbaugh would go out fast and a lot of people would try to be in the race. Coach (Jim Hofmann) told me the first 400, 800 even the first mile don't matter, it's all at the end. That's what happened.”

By MATT LEVINS mlevins@thehawkeye.com DES MOINES -- Just one year ago, J.T. McCarthy was taking a cool-down run with Alan Webb around downtown Des Moines, shortly after McCarthy and 15,000 other fans gave Webb ... via Hawk Eye

“It used to be a beautiful house”

With open drug activity and abandoned, windowless buildings, the Pleasant Valley neighborhood, in the low lands along the Des Moines River in Fort Dodge, has a reputation for living up to only the second half ... via The Messenger