Louisa County News

Posted on Nov 30, 2009 by Steve Gravelle . Jacob R. Haines, 22, of Mount Pleasant, and Darby Gilbert, 17, of Libertyville, died Saturday night when a car driven by Haines left a Louisa County road, the Iowa State Patrol said.

Four persons died Saturday in two separate Iowa traffic crashes, the Iowa State Patrol reported.

A community is in shock after fire destroys a popular restaurant. The fire broke out just after 12:30 Sunday afternoon at the Thirsty Camel Supper Club near Conesville and was called in by a passerby.

Louisa County Sherrif's Office Chief Deputy Adam Caudle says any of his co-workers could have done what he did one cold afternoon in March, when he plunged into the Iowa River to save a woman who jumped from a bridge.

Court reporter laid off, hours reduced. By JOHN MANGALONZO jmangalonzo@thehawkeye.com Worried faces of state court employees lined the first and third floors of the Des Moines County courthouse Thursday as they patiently awaited afternoon meetings addressing possible job cuts within their ranks.

Nearly all homes that applied will receive funding. By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES ccrippes@thehawkeye.com The words "buyout" and "approved" have seemed unlikely to be united in a sentence and followed by real funding, since shortly after the levees gave way in the spring of 2008, in what has since been named one of the top five worst disasters.

Governor Chet Culver announced today that this first round of money would help 20 cities and counties buyout 1,352 damaged homes that are not eligible for FEMA buyouts.

John Lovretta/The Hawk Eye Sixteen-month-old Natalie Wibbell of Dallas City, Ill., under the watchful eyes of her parents, John and Tiffany, gets a shot from Peggy Moreland of Lomax, Ill., the Lee County Health Department's Maternal Child Health coordinator, Wednesday during a H1N1 vaccination clinic offered by the Lee County Health Department at ...

Few challengers come out in city races in Louisa County. At the edge of a county with few contested city races, Oakville is a hotbed of election activity.

Although a portion of the bonds would be needed to cover reserve and bonding costs, Superintendent John Weidner said Tim Oswald, a financial consultant with Piper-Jaffrey, has determined the school still would have $4.67 million to spend.

Reports are taken directly from the daily logs of area law enforcement agencies.

Come explore the foods of Iowa before corn was king. Starting at 2 p.m. Oct. 10, Toolesboro Indian Mounds and Museum will be the site for a free public program on wild edible and cultivated foods used by people for the last 2,000 years.

A normally non-controversial appointment to an open seat on the city swimming pool board generated some heat for the Wapello City Council at a meeting Thursday.

Sixty-seven percent of southeast Iowa voters who went to the polls Tuesday approved a continuation of Southeastern Community College's 20 1/4-cent levy.

Grant application due Oct. 1. By CHRISTINIA CRIPPES ccrippes@thehawkeye.com Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission is hoping to expand the scope of its housing program, with the help of a state grant and a small injection of county dollars.

There will be a new face on the Southeastern Community College Board of Trustees.

The State Historic Preservation Office, in partnership with the Louisa County and Muscatine historic preservation commissions, will offer two days of historic preservation workshops Sept.

Last month, the three-member Des Moines County Board of Supervisors approved an employment agreement with Eugenio Torres of Fort Madison to serve as the county's medical examiner.

Louisa County Historical Society will have its annual Fall Festival at 9 a.m. Sept.

The Iowa River is once again pouring through a gap in an area levee break that has yet to be fully repaired since the levee was breached during the Flood of 2008.