Officials with the Glenwood Police Department report the arrest on Jan. 1st, of 24-year-old Haydn Kingery, from Council Bluffs. She was taken into custody for OWI/1st offense, with bond set at $1,000. Authorities said also, a Council Bluffs woman complained of pain and possible injury, following a single-vehicle accident Friday morning. According to the report, 45-year-old Ma Remedios Aserit Kutchara was traveling south on 221st Street near Glenwood, and was attempting to traverse a curve in the road, when her 2015 Hyundai Accent left the road to the south and ran over a small pine tree, breaking the tree in half.

The car continued into the ditch and came to rest against a large tree. Medics responded after Kutchara complained of some chest of knee pain. She was checked out and released from the scene. The vehicle sustained about $4,000 damage.

Glenwood Police said also, an unknown, red vehicle was eastbound on Valley Street Thursday afternoon, when it hit a wooden post containing three mailboxes, in the grassy area at 103 Valley Street. The vehicle left the area without stopping. Juveniles in the area provided police with a description of the suspect vehicle. The damage amounted to about $900.

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa State University is using a one-point-four million-dollar grant from the Iowa Economic Development Authority for a project to use 3-D printing for the vertical framing of homes. I-S-U’s Pete Evans says they are trying to help with the shortage of affordable housing. “Being able to automate some of that function, because we have a workforce shortage, that is part of the housing shortage, also the speed of construction, those two factors allow us to try to really impact that immediate need,” Evans says.

Evans is an assistant professor of industrial design at I-S-U — and says they are working on finding the right machine that will be able to print a one-story house. Evans says they hope this can be part of a holistic solution for affordable housing. “This is definitely not trying to just look at one aspect of this. But really, now that we’re here, and we talk about industry, four-point-oh or 21st-century solutions that we can really try to re-imagine what housing might be,” according to Evans.

They are working with a contractor on the demonstration project in the southwest Iowa city of Hamburg as the area continues to recover from flooding in 2019.

(By Catherine Wheeler, Iowa Public Radio)

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Board of Supervisors held their annual re-organizational meeting this (Monday) morning, during which they voted to re-elect Steve Baier as Board Chair. They also elected Mark O’Brien as Vice Chair, and decided to the day and start time for their weekly meeting the same as in 2021, and that is 9-a.m. Tuesday, except at the end of the month, when it will be held at the end of the business week.

The Board also voted to increase the mileage reimbursement rate for those county employees who use their personal vehicles for County business, from 45 cents per mile, to 50 cents per mile, and the issuance of pay checks on the same days as before.

The Cass County Supervisors appointed their members to various County Board, Commissions and/or Committees, and acted on passing a Resolution for the construction of livestock confinement feeding operations, as part of the Master Matrix. Board Chair Steve Baier….

(Every application for a permit to construct livestock feeding structures must be evaluated by the Board before the application is submitted to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for final approval.)

The Supervisors set the Medical Examiners Fee at $200 per call for a standard call and $400 per call for an involved call, as determined by the Medical Examiner. And, Cass County Engineer Trent Wolken reported that a bridge project that was supposed to begin today on 700th Street south of G35, is delayed for about a week due the cold temperatures, and at the request of the contractor.

(Guthrie Center, Iowa) – The Guthrie County Sheriff’s Office says no injuries were reported following two accidents over the holiday weekend. At around 6:45-p.m. Friday, a 2000 Ford F250 Super Duty pickup driven by 21-year-old Paul Earl Hawkins, of Manilla, was traveling too fast for conditions, westbound on 270th Street. When her made a hard right turn onto Maple, the vehicle went out of control and rolled into the east ditch and sustained $10,000 damage. Hawkins was cited for Careless Driving.

And, at around 1:15-p.m. Saturday, a 2000 Chrysler LHS driven by 17-year-old Adrina Ann Todd, of Bagley, was traveling south on Highway 4, when the car went out of control due to snow on the roadway. The vehicle went into the east high, hitting a sign and posts. Damage to the vehicle was estimated at $1,000. No citations were issued.

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With the new year, new mask policies are being put in place in some Iowa schools and several districts are dropping their mask mandates as of today (Monday). The C-D-C says all 99 Iowa counties are seeing high transmission of COVID-19, and Nola Aigner Davis at the Polk County Health Department says vaccines and masks remain the best ways to bring down the number of infections and hospitalizations. “COVID-19 is not slowing down anytime soon,” she says, “and it’s especially not going to slow down after the holidays when individuals gathered with family and friends and traveled.”

In many cases, school boards decided to make masks optional because COVID-19 vaccines are available for school-aged children, but Aigner Davis says the change in policy is ahead of the numbers.  “This would be a reasonable step to take if we saw a high rate of individuals under the age of 18 getting the vaccine,” she says. “We are still not seeing high vaccination rates for children under 18.”

Masks are no longer required in several Iowa school districts, including Decorah, Linn-Mar and Southeast Polk. Masks will become optional for West Des Moines students later in the month. Some school districts may require masks if there is a spike in coronavirus infections. In Mount Vernon and College Community schools, a mask mandate will be reinstated if the COVID-19 positivity rate is higher than 2 percent in a school and the absence rate is over 8 percent.

(by Grant Gerlock, Iowa Public Radio)

(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department says there were two arrests over the holiday weekend. Friday afternoon, 34-year-old Jessica Renee Swietek, of Mt. Ayr, was arrested for Driving While Barred. She was later released on a $2,000 bond. And, on Saturday, 26-year-old Jimmy Wayne King, of Texas, was arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center, on charges of OWI/1st offense, and Carrying Weapons while intoxicated. He was also later released on a $2,000 bond.

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(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa chapter of the American Red Cross is starting out 2022 much as it always does, with a critical need for blood donors as blood supplies are dangerously low. Agency spokeswoman Sue Thesenga says she’s hoping the blood shortage in the new year makes people stop and think about what they can do to help year-round. “We really encourage people to resolve to do something good this year and blood donation is a very easy way to make a resolution to help people in need,” Thesenga says. “It only takes an hour of someone’s time and it doesn’t cost a dime.”

The Red Cross is in need of all blood types, especially those with type O, which is considered a universal type for transfusions. You can safely donate blood every 56 days,” she says. “So a lot of times donors donate once or twice during the year, and that is fabulous, but if they donated more regularly and more often, that would probably help us avoid situations like we’re in right now.”

To find a place to donate, visit redcrossblood.org.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – A pursuit in northern Cass County that began with a traffic stop on Highway 71, just south of Lorah Road, just south of the Valley, ended in the southern part of the County early this (Monday) morning. According to Cass County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh McLaren, the incident started at around 12:20-a.m., when he attempted to stop a Ford F250 pickup with no license plate, for a speed violation.

The suspect pickup attempted to elude law enforcement westbound on Boston Road, southbound on Dunbar Road. to Olive Street at speeds near 80 MPH.  The vehicle then proceeded southbound on Olive Street and entered the City of Atlantic where it continued southbound through town at speeds in area the area 70 MPH.  The pickup left the city limits southbound on Olive Street, continuing at speeds near 80 MPH for approximately 9 miles to Richland Road, before turning westbound on Richland to 590th Street.

The vehicle then turned southbound on 590th Street and continued to Yankton Road, where it turned westbound on Yankton and was found at around 12:44-a.m. unoccupied, at a residence west of 590th and Yankton Road.  Deputy McLaren said at the time of this report, no arrests had been made, the incident remains under investigation. He said they’re pretty sure they know the driver was, and that charges will likely be filed within a few days.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Atlantic Police Department, Iowa State Patrol, Audubon, Montgomery and Shelby County Sheriff’s Offices.