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STANLEY R. METHENY, 64, of Wiota (No services at this time)

Obituaries

June 22nd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

STANLEY R. METHENY, 64, of Wiota, died Sunday, June 20th, at home. Per his wishes, cremation has been established, and no services are planned at this time, for STANLEY METHENY. Hockenberry Family Care in Atlantic has the arrangements.

STAN METHENY is survived by:

His wife – Kathleen “K.D.”

His daughters – Hope Metheny, and Stephanie (Josh) Waters.

His brothers – Sam (Linda) Metheny, and Steve Metheny.

His sisters – Sandra (Steve) Paulsen; Cathie Alff; Judy (Bruce) Alff; and Jane Kline.

2 grandchildren, and other relatives.

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Adams County woman arrested Monday night in Red Oak

News

June 22nd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

A woman from Adams County was arrested Monday night in Red Oak, on an Adams County warrant for Failure to Appear, on three felony counts of perjury. 42-year-old Joleen Mary Most, of Carbon, was also arrested on a warrant for Failure to Appear on a Driving While Barred charge in Adams County. She was being held without bond, in the Montgomery County Jail.

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Skyscan Forecast for Atlantic & the area: 6/22/21

Weather

June 22nd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

Today: Partly cloudy w/isolated showers & thunderstorms possible, late. High 82. SE @ 10-15.
Tonight: P/Cldy w/a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Low around 65. S @ 5-10.
Tomorrow: P/Cldy, warm & humid. High near 90. SW @ 10-20.
Thursday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstrms. High 87.
Friday: P/Cldy to Cldy w/scatt. shwrs & tstrms. High 84.

Monday’s High in Atlantic was 74. Our Low was 48. Last year on this date, the High was 81 and the Low was 55. The Record High was 100 in 1933. The Record Low was 39 in 1972.

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DMACC’s insurer continues to negotiation with ‘threat actors’

News

June 22nd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The president of Des Moines Area Community College says the institution’s insurance company continues to negotiate with hackers who shut down DMACC’s computer networks on June 2nd. Rob Denson says it does not appear any accounts were compromised. “Our insurance company is talking to the threat actor. We’re not a part of that discussion at this point,” They want to make sure they don’t tell us anything that we might share that could impact the status of any negotiations, but again we’ve not seen anything or been told of anything that’s of any real significance.”

Denson says it was a ransomware attack, but DMACC did not pay a ransom and has relied upon its insurer to handle the details. “They brought in all kinds of attorneys, consultants that have worked with us and have been through many, many of these,” Denson says. “at all. We had passwords and some emails that we believe were impacted. We’ve just reset all of those.” Experts have gone through six-thousand DMACC computers, searching for malicious software, but Denson says none was found.

Denson made his comments during taping of the “Iowa Press” program that airs this Friday on Iowa P-B-S. DMACC cancelled online classes on June 3rd and wound up closing the entire campus on June 4th due to the security breach. In-person classes resumed five days later, but online classes didn’t start back up until last week.

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Regents to consider tuition increases

News

June 22nd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – The Board of Regents will consider a proposal for tuition increases at the three state universities in a meeting Thursday. The board staff is proposing a three-point five percent increase in undergrad resident tuition at the University of Iowa and Iowa State University — with a one-point-five percent increase at the University of Northern Iowa.

The proposal also raises mandatory fees by 53 dollars at the U-I, 36 dollars at I-S-U, and holds fees the same at U-N-I. The Board of Regents requested an increase of 18 million dollars and a restoration of eight million dollars from the Iowa Legislature this year — but lawmakers held the line with no increase in funding.

The proposal would increase out-of-state tuition by the same as in-state at the U-I, raise it 906 dollars at I-S-U and 273 dollars at U-N-I.

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Iowa’s big tree expert to speak at online seminar

Ag/Outdoor, News

June 22nd, 2021 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) – Trees Forever will be hosting an online seminar over the noon hour today (Tuesday) to showcase Iowa’s tallest trees. Jeff Jensen, an Iowa field coordinator for Trees Forever, says these trees dwarf the landscape. “We were able to secure Mark Rouw,” Jensen says. “He’s kind of known as the ‘big tree expert’ here in Iowa. He’s been all over the state.” Rouw keeps a spreadsheet of the state’s tallest trees. Jensen says Rouw will explain how he measures the trees, where he goes to look for them and some of the national champion trees in Iowa.

“And just gives just a really nice overview, including just some fantastic photos,” Jensen says. State officials say Iowa has about three MILLION acres of trees and forest areas. Jensen says while Iowa is known as a tall grass prairie state, it has some tall trees, too. “As you can imagine, for a tree to get real large to be considered a national champion or a state champion, it has to have a very long life,” Jensen says.

Find out more about today’s (Tuesday’s) webinar at www.radioiowa.com. The state’s list of tall trees shows a dozen trees are over 100 feet tall. It includes a sugar maple in Clayton County; a European Alder in Davenport; a Bitternut Hickory and a couple of Black Walnuts in Des Moines; a Black Ash in Anamosa; plus three Yellow Poplars in Indianola, Davenport and Burlington. Three Eastern White Pines in Iowa are among the tallest. One is in Fayette County. The other two are at White Pine Hollow State Preserve in Dubuque County.

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College World Series Scoreboard 6/21 and Schedule 6/22

Sports

June 21st, 2021 by admin

Monday’s Scores

Stanford 14, Arizona 5: The Cardinal pounded out 20 hits and sent the Wildcats packing in the first elimination game of the series. Brock Jones and Tommy Troy each hit a longball for Stanford.

NC State 1, Vanderbilt 0: NC State grabbed their second straight win in Omaha by grinding out a one run win over Vanderbilt. Sam Highfill and Evan Justice combined to allow just two hits and struck out 9 in the Wolfpack victory. NC State moves into the Friday Semifinals and Vanderbilt will face Stanford on Wednesday.

Tuesday’s Schedule

Game 7: Tennessee vs. Texas | 2 p.m. | ESPNU
Game 8: Virginia vs. Mississippi State | 7 p.m. | ESPN2

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Atlantic sweeps past Glenwood softball

Sports

June 21st, 2021 by admin

The Atlantic Trojans made quick work of the Glenwood Rams on the softball diamond Monday night. The Trojans grabbed a pair of 12-0 victories in the doubleheader, the first game in 3 innings and the second game in 4 innings of play.

The Trojans struck early in the first game. Olivia Engler started the opening frame with three straight strikeouts. She then went on to open the scoring with a three-run homer over the center field fence. The Trojans added three more in the second and six in the third. Maleana Woodward ended it with a bases-loaded double that brought all three home. Engler finished with 7 strikeouts in the contest.

Game two started with the Trojans racking up 5 runs in the opening frame. They added 1 in the 2nd, four in the 3rd, and two more to seal it in the fourth. Caroline Pellett crossed home safely before a tag out at third to provide the final margin.

Atlantic Head Coach Terry Hinzmann was pleased with how the team carried over momentum from a strong weekend at the Fort Dodge tournament.

Olivia Engler said the good hitting night snowballed throughout the team.

Maleana Woodward thought confidence built through the lineup.

The Trojans improved to 23-5 on the season and will host Kuemper on Tuesday night. Glenwood falls to 6-15 on the year.

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High School Baseball Scoreboard 06/21/2021

Sports

June 21st, 2021 by admin

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Glenwood 5, Atlantic 4 (Game 1)
Glenwood 6, Atlantic 3 (Game 2) Updated
Harlan 10, Red Oak 0 (Game 1)
Harlan 13, Red Oak 3 (Game 2)
Clarinda 6, Lewis Central 4 (Game 1)
Lewis Central 10, Clarinda 0 (Game 2)
Kuemper Catholic 10, Shenandoah 3 (Game 1)
Kuemper Catholic 12, Shenandoah 2 (Game 2)
St. Albert 5, Creston 2 (Game 1)
Creston 9, St. Albert 5 (Game 2)

Western Iowa Conference

Logan-Magnolia 6, Audubon 0
Missouri Valley 5, AHSTW 0
Treynor 9, IKM-Manning 2
Underwood 11, Riverside 1

Rolling Valley Conference

Ar-We-Va 12, Boyer Valley 10
CAM 4, Coon Rapids-Bayard 3
Exira-EHK 15, Glidden-Ralston 1
Woodbine 12, West Harrison 2

Corner Conference

East Mills 12, Essex 0
Sidney 9, Griswold 8
Stanton 5, Fremont-Mills 2

Pride of Iowa Conference

Central Decatur 17, Moravia 7
Lamoni 4, Martensdale-St. Marys 1
Melcher-Dallas 4, East Union 3
Nodaway Valley 10, Southwest Valley 4
Southeast Warren 3, Moravia 2

Other Scores

ACGC 9, Ogden 4
North Polk 8, Carroll 0
Panorama 10, Madrid 1
Woodward-Granger 10, West Central Valley 0 (Game 1)
Woodward-Granger 15, West Central Valley 4 (Game 2)

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High School Softball Scoreboard 06/21/2021

Sports

June 21st, 2021 by admin

Hawkeye Ten Conference

Atlantic 12 Glenwood, 0 (3 innings) (Game 1)
Atlantic 12 Glenwood, 0 (4 innings) (Game 2)
Creston 12 St. Albert, 2 (Game 1)
Creston 12 St.Albert, 0 (Game 2)
Kuemper, Catholic 12, Shenandoah 3 (Game 1)
Kuemper Catholic 16, Shenandoah 3 (Game 2)
Harlan 10, Red Oak 1 (Game 1)
Harlan 10, Red Oak 2 (Game 2)
Lewis Central 11, Clarinda 1 (5 inn.) (Game 1)
Lewis Central 9, Clarinda 6 (Game 2)

Western Iowa Conference

AHSTW 3, Missouri Valley 1
Audubon 11, Logan-Magnolia 8
Riverside 3, Underwood 1
Treynor 12, IKM-Manning 0

Rolling Valley Conference

Ar-We-Va 8, Boyer Valley 6
CAM 12, Coon Rapids-Bayard 0 (4 inn.)
Exira-EHK 12, Glidden-Ralston 0
Woodbine 6, West Harrison 2

Corner Conference

Essex 14, East Mills 2
Fremont-Mills 10, Stanton 9
Griswold 5, Sidney 1

Pride of Iowa Conference

Bedford 12, Orient-Macksburg 2
Central Decatur 15, Murray 5
Nodaway Valley 13, Southwest Valley 1
Southeast Warren 12, Moravia 0
Wayne 13, Grand View Christian 1

Other Scores

ACGC 8, Ogden 1
North Polk 2, Carroll 1
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 13, CB Thomas Jefferson 2 (Game 1)
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 5, CB Thomas Jefferson 1 (Game 2)
West Central Valley 2, Woodward-Granger 1 (Game 1)
Woodward-Granger 9, West Central Valley 6 (Game 2)

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