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Thursday Boys Sub-State Soccer Results

Sports

May 21st, 2021 by Jim Field

Class 1-A

Sub-State 7:

  • Greene County 2, Atlantic 1

Sub-State 8:

  • Riverside 5, Missouri Valley 1
  • Underwood 6, AHSTW 1
  • St. Albert 10, Tri-Center 0
  • Treynor 2, Logan-Magnolia 0

Sub-State 1:

  • West Sioux 4, Kuemper Catholic 3

Class 2-A

Sub-State 8:

  • Denison-Schleswig 2, Harlan 0
  • Glenwood 5, Carroll 1
  • Creston 4, Boone 1

Class 3-A

Sub-State 1:

  • Lewis Central 8, CB Thomas Jefferson 0
  • CB Abraham Lincoln 5, Sioux City East 1

Iowa legislature passes another round of election law changes

News

May 21st, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The Republican-led Iowa legislature passed a second round of election law changes this week, including limits on who can take someone else’s absentee ballot to the county auditor’s office. Senator Roby Smith, a Republican from Bettendorf, says there are all sorts of security provisions once an absentee ballot reaches a county auditor’s office, but without these changes, anyone can grab someone’s absentee ballot and claim they’ll deliver it.

“It was treated like a Kleenex. There’s no security when someone can knock on your door. ‘Oh, yeah, I’ll return your ballot,'” Smith says. “You don’t know who it is. They can open it up. They change the vote. They can throw it away. They could shred it.” Family members may deliver a relative’s absentee ballot and any registered voter in Iowa can help two blind or disabled voters deliver their absentee ballot to the county auditor’s office.

Political parties, unions and campaigns cannot have paid representatives or volunteers collect absentee ballots. Senator Pam Jochum of Dubuque and all the Democrats present Wednesday opposed the bill. “One more nail in democracy’s coffin,” Jochum said. “You’ve been working overtime, pal…to make sure you are creating an obstacle course for Iowa’s voters.” Senator James Carlin, a Republican from Sioux City, says the FEDERAL election law congress has proposed is designed to facilitate fraud and Iowa needs strong state rules.

“I like knowing that the people who are voting are who they say they are,” Carlin said, “and my trust issue, whatever it is, has really been triggered since Election Day.” Senator Tony Bisignano, a Democrat from Des Moines, says Republicans are using former President Trump’s claims of a rigged election as their guide for this year’s election-related bills. “What you’re doing is all based on a premise of a lie,” Bisignano said. “It’s a big lie.”

The election bill Republicans approved on the 2021 legislative session’s final day covers a wide range of issues. It stipulates 17-year-olds who’ve registered to vote because they’ll be 18 by Election Day are not to be removed when voters are cut from registration lists if they haven’t cast a ballot in the last General Election. That problem cropped up as a result of the election law passed earlier in the legislative session.

Creston Police Report

News

May 21st, 2021 by Ric Hanson

Creston police report the arrest of John Antonio Medina, 35, of Waterloo, Iowa at 1:48 pm on May 20, 2021, on a charge of Theft 5th.

Medina was cited and released on a Promise to Appear

Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund Donates to The Friends of Lake Anita

News

May 21st, 2021 by Ric Hanson

The Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund donated $500 to The Friends of Lake Anita for their free fishing clinic which will be held on Saturday, June 5th at Lake Anita State Park.  This is a wonderful opportunity to spend time as a family fishing and enjoying the great outdoors at one of Iowa’s beautiful state parks.  Trevor loved to fish and this donation fits our mission statement perfectly.

The fund is in full swing getting ready for their 13th Annual TFred Memorial Golf Tournament which will be held on Saturday, August 14th at Nishna Hills Golf Club in Atlantic.  Please contact Melanie Petty at 249-3696 if you would like reserve a spot for a team, donate to our silent auction or become a hole sponsor.  All donations are given back to the community Trevor loved.  Since Trevor’s passing we have been blessed to give back over $250,000 and we look forward to giving back for many more years.

2021 State Track Day 1 Photos and Interviews

Sports

May 21st, 2021 by admin

Atlantic Boys 4x800M Relay Bennett Whetstone, Jayden Proehl, Alex Sonntag, Caden Andersen

Atlantic Boys Shuttle Hurdle Relay Garrett Reynolds, Joe Weaver, Colin Mullenix, Zane Vance

Taylor McCreedy 3000M

Haley Rasmussen 400M

Lane Spieker of CAM on his 3rd Place 1A Boy Long Jump Medal

Local 24-Hour Rainfall Totals at 7:00 am on Friday, May 21, 2021

Ag/Outdoor, Weather

May 21st, 2021 by Jim Field

  • KJAN, Atlantic  .29″
  • 7 miles NNE of Atlantic  .32″
  • Massena  .96″
  • Anita  .78″
  • Avoca  .3″
  • Bridgewater  1.5″
  • Villisca  1.45″
  • Corning  1.04″
  • Clarinda  1.13″
  • Shenandoah  .38″
  • Manning  .07″
  • Irwin  .08″
  • Carroll  .16″
  • Creston  .9″

Gov. Reynolds Signs Proclamation to Prevent Fuel Supply Issues In Iowa

News

May 21st, 2021 by Ric Hanson

Today, Governor Kim Reynolds signed a proclamation that eases transport for crews and drivers hauling motor fuels.

The proclamation temporarily suspends regulatory provisions of Iowa law pertaining to hours of service for crews and drivers hauling motor fuels, including gasoline, diesel #1, diesel #2, ethanol and biodiesel. The proclamation also temporarily provisions of Iowa law pertaining to oversize and overweight loads of fuel. Increased demand, along with above average wait times at petroleum product terminals, along with ripple effects of the Colonial Pipeline shutdown, have created challenges to timely access of these fuels.

While some states across the country are experiencing shortages, the state of Iowa wants to proactively take steps to maintain supply. The proclamation is effective immediately and expires on June 19, 2021 at 11:59 pm.

Officer testimony of 11-hour interview with man accused of Tibbetts’ murder

News

May 20th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – An officer has testified that the man accused of killing college student Mollie Tibbetts in 2018 led investigators to the field where her body was found. Pamela Romero was an Iowa City police officer two years ago who interviewed suspect Cristhian Bahena Rivera. “He showed me the corn field and he goes: ‘This is the corn field where I came, took her out of the trunk, carried her on my shoulder, went inside the corn field, dropped her on the ground, covered her with leaves and I left right away,'” she testified.

Romero said during an 11 hour police interview, Rivera admitted chasing Tibbetts and fighting with her when she threatened to call the police. She says Rivera told her he couldn’t remember how he killed Tibbetts. “The next thing that he told me was that he remembered him driving and looking down into his legs and finding the ear buds that belonged to Mollie,” she testified, “and that is when he remembered that he had Mollie in the back of his vehicle, in the trunk.”

Based on the questions Bahena Rivera’s attorneys are asking witnesses, it appears they plan to argue Rivera was sleep deprived and coerced into making a confession.

(Reporting by Iowa Public Radio’s Kate Payne)

Iowa legislature passes two key bills to aid the dairy industry

Ag/Outdoor, News

May 20th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Leaders of Iowa’s dairy industry are praising the state legislature for passing a pair of bills before adjourning to address the hauling of milk and also what are known as anaerobic digesters. Mitch Schulte, executive director of the Iowa State Dairy Association, says permission to use those digesters will mean Iowa dairies can improve their sustainability and environmental footprint — in addition to their financial pictures.

“It’s going to give us the ability to have more animals in an area,” Schulte says. “We’re still going to care for those animals in the same way, but as long as we have that anaerobic digester in place, we’re going to be able to clean the manure, we’re going to clean the water, and we’re going to clean that air as it comes out of there. And, we’re going to produce a fuel source that can be used by our consumers out there.”

One byproduct of anaerobic digestion is biogas, which can be burned to generate electricity and heat. It can also be processed into transportation fuels and into renewable natural gas.”The dairy industry has a collective goal of being carbon neutral or better by the year 2050 and it’s going to take everyone in our industry to work together to do that,” Schulte says. “A lot of what we need to do to be carbon neutral is just documenting the great work that our farmers are already doing today.” He says some of those efforts include the reusing of water at farming operations and the planting of cover crops to reduce erosion.

Schulte says the other piece of legislation to relax regulations on hauling milk will allow producers to truck larger loads on Iowa’s interstates starting in January of 2022. They’re now restricted to local roads and state highways. “It’s going to allow our milk haulers to get up on the interstate system with overweight loads,” Schulte says. “The way this bill is structured, our milk haulers will be able to obtain an overweight permit for the interstate system. We think this is beneficial, not only for our sustainable footprint and moving the product more efficiently, but it’s also good for the community.”

Schulte says being able to move milk on the interstate system will create a much safer environment by getting those vehicles off of town roads and out of congested areas.

Legislature OKs new property tax levy for EMS

News

May 20th, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Iowa voters could establish a new local property levy to provide funding for Emergency Medical Services under a provision included a bill that cleared the legislature late Wednesday night. Representative Bobby Kaufmann, a Republican from Wilton, says ambulance services have been lobbying for this for 50 years.

“This piece of policy legislation in this bill is truly a generational change,” Kaufmann says, “to be able to give our counties or our cities or our districts the ability to finally levy for and raise the funds to fully fund our ambulance services.” Kaufmann says calling for an ambulance in rural Iowa often depends upon a response from a volunteer department running on donations from pancake breakfasts and other fundraisers.