A recount of the votes cast during the June 5th Primary Election for nomination of a Republican candidate for the District 3 Cass County Board of Supervisors will be held tomorrow (Monday), in Atlantic. The recount takes place in the Supervisors Board Room at the Courthouse, beginning at 3-p.m.

Ballots cast in Wards 4 and 5 as well as Absentee will be re-counted at the request for Dana Halder, who came in a close second in votes to John Hartkopf. Immediately after Primary, Hartkopf had a total of 161 votes, Halder 157, and Linda Templeman 103.

A three-member Board was appointed to conduct the recounts, with two of the three selected by Hartkopf and Halder, the third selected by the two other appointees.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Residents have begun moving into Des Moines’ newest neighborhood as work continues on apartments and townhomes in the area. The Des Moines Register reports that downtown’s East Village is being transformed by Hubbell Realty Co.’s 16-acre development known as the Bridge District

Developers hope the district will attract homeowners and renters to the city’s core. The neighborhood is slated to have nearly 700 housing units in five years. The area’s first apartment building, called the Verve, opened last month. Half of the building’s nearly 130 units are leased, said Kris Saddoris, vice president of development at Hubbell.

Units range in size from studios measuring about 480 square feet to 3-bedroom units with 1,500 square feet. Monthly rent ranges from $895 to $1,895. Each apartment includes a patio or walk-up doorway. The building includes a community room and a fitness center.

Residents began moving into the company’s upscale townhouses, known as The Banks, in the fall. About 36 of the 44 units have sold, said Rachel Flint, vice president of Hubbell Homes. Nearly 80 percent of phase one units were sold before crews were finished with construction, she said.

“People have been buying before the foundation is poured,” she said. “When you want to buy downtown, you know there’s only so many options and so much land, so there’s a sense of urgency. There’s more demand than there is supply.”

The second phase will include 55 townhomes. The townhomes each have three stories with rooftop patios and garages. Floor plans range from 1,800 to 3,500 square feet. Costs vary from $375,000 to $750,000.

One person was injured during a single-vehicle crash off Interstate 29 early Sunday morning, in Fremont County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2013 Ford Focus driven by 26-year old Steven Gross, of Jefferson, SD, was traveling north on I-29 at around 6-a.m., when for reasons unknown, the car went off the road and into the median.

The vehicle then collided with the east side bridge rail on the southbound side of I-29 before coming to rest upright on the south side of the bridge. The accident happened about a mile north of the Iowa/Missouri State line.

Gross – who was wearing his seat belt — was transported by Hamburg Rescue to the Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Cities, counties and the state of Iowa are less liable for injuries caused by road maintenance issues after a recent Iowa Supreme Court ruling that upheld a longstanding but controversial legal doctrine. The court in a June 8 ruling said a northern Iowa woman cannot sue Humboldt County for failing to remove a concrete wall a farmer had installed in a roadside ditch to keep cows from escaping.
Kaitlyn Johnson was injured in March 2013 when the pickup truck she was riding in left the road southwest of Humboldt and struck the concrete structure. She sued the farmer for installing the barrier and the county for failure to remove it.

The Supreme Court has upheld a judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit, saying Iowa maintains the public-duty doctrine, a legal concept that says governments cannot be held liable for breaching a duty owed to the general public. Four justices held the doctrine remains the law in Iowa but three disagreed, saying it is at odds with the legislature’s clear intent to limit government immunity.

A two-year old girl was flown to a nearby hospital following an incident Saturday night at Big Creek Lake, in Polk County. According to KCCI-TV, the incident happened at around 9 p.m. It was not immediately clear how the girl, who was with her parents, got into the lake. Emergency response personnel performed CPR on the victim before she was transported to the hospital. The Polk City Police Department is investigating the case. It was the second incident involving a child at an Iowa Lake in as many days. On Friday, a fisherman pulled a young girl from Lake Red Rock, and saved her by using CPR.   Officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources say you should use extreme caution while swimming in rivers or lakes, especially due to high waters after flooding this past week.

Authorities told KCCI also, that a fisherman was missing after his boat was found unoccupied and wedged into the riverbank. The Wapello County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call around 10:45 a.m. Saturday reporting that a fisherman was unaccounted for on the Des Moines River in Ottumwa. Officials said his boat was found near what is referred to as Turkey Island, northwest of Ottumwa. The Ottumwa Fire Department responded with watercraft along with the Wapello County Sheriff’s Office watercraft. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources also responded with three additional watercraft equipped with sonar. No other details were immediately available.

Atlantic, IA – The next session of Healthy U, scheduled for noon on June 21st at Cass County Health System, will cover “The Inside Scoop on Medicare.” The session will be led by a panel that includes Cindy Petty, Revenue Cycle Director; Ashlee Richards, Patient Financial Advisor; Christa McDermott, Insurance Coordinator; and Katie Ehrman, Patient Accounts Systems Coordinator. They will cover the following topics:

New Medicare cards
Financial Assistance
Medicare Advantage Plans
Annual Wellness Visits
Self-Administered Medications
Following their presentation, the panel will also answer questions from attendees.

Healthy U is a free educational lunch series at Cass County Health System held monthly in Conference Room 2. The public is invited and welcome to attend, but reservations are required as lunch is provided for all attendees. Call 712-243-7479 to reserve your seat.