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(Glenwood, Iowa) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports two weekend arrests. Late Saturday morning, 57-year-old Derrick Lee Dornburgh, of Malvern, was arrested for OWI/2nd offense. His bond was set at $2,000.
At around 2:20-a.m. Sunday, 20-year-old Christopher Lee Derry, of Sioux Falls, SD, was arrested following a traffic stop on Interstate 29, at mile marker 42 in Mills County. Derry was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance. Bond was set at $1,000.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says Robert F. Kennedy Junior could help to answer many questions that haven’t been raised before, if he’s confirmed as the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy is a former Democrat who ran as an independent in this year’s presidential race, and Grassley says he’s encouraged by the choice of Kennedy to head H-H-S.
“What’s wrong with bringing some new ideas in?” Grassley says. “It’s whether or not those ideas are adopted or not, and there’s no way I could make a prediction on that, but I don’t think we should be afraid to review any policies of the government and change them if necessary.”
Kennedy abandoned his bid for the White House after striking a deal to give Donald Trump his endorsement with a promise to have a role in health policy in the administration. Grassley says he sees an advantage to having a businessman who is not a politician raising questions about government programs. “That somebody comes in from the outside, whether it’s the president of the United States or RFK Junior, raising these questions seems to be pretty important, just to make sure that government is functioning to the will of the people.”
During the campaign, Kennedy said Trump had asked him to reorganize several agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration. Trump also proposes creating a Department of Government Efficiency to be co-chaired by billionaire Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. It would look into ways to slash government regulations and spending while downsizing the federal workforce. Grassley says he’d welcome such a review.
“If they’re going to do their job right, every nook and cranny of the federal government and its programs need to be looked into,” Grassley says. “I would be very concerned if they cut away the safety net for American family farmers, but beyond the safety net, when you’ve got at least dozens and maybe hundreds of different programs in the Department of Agriculture, I wouldn’t say that every one of them should be immune from consideration.”
Musk pledged to cut two-trillion dollars from the federal budget, but he’s not offered many specifics on how he’d go about it.
(Clarinda, Iowa) – The Page County Sheriff’s Office today (Monday), released a report on the outcome of recent court cases.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The City of Atlantic’s Personnel & Finance Committee will meet 2-p.m. Tuesday, in the Council’s Chambers at City Hall. According to their agenda, the Committee will hold a Closed Session as allowed under the Code of Iowa, to “Discuss the Purchase or Sale of Particular Real Estate Only Where Premature Disclosure Could be Reasonably Expected to Increase the Price the Governmental Body Would Have to Pay for that Property or Reduce the Price the Governmental Body would Receive for that Property.”
The Minutes and the Audio Recording of a Session Closed Under this Paragraph will be made available for Public Examination when the Transaction Discussed is Completed.
(Radio Iowa) – There’s a change this year in how you register you snowmobile before running the trails in Iowa. The Iowa D-N-R ‘s Jessica Flatt says it simplifies the process. “Residents of Iowa are no longer required to purchase the user permit. They’ll only be needing to register their vehicle annually. So previous to this law change, they would have had to register and buy a trail permit, and now they’ll only have to buy the registration,” she says. Flatt says the registration fee was increased, but it balances out with no permit required.
“You know, they’re basically netting out the same cost, but now it’s only a single item that they have to purchase is that registration fee, Flatt says. “So the registration fee did increase from, you know, 15 to 30, but now they’re not required to buy that separate permit.” Flatt says the fee goes to help the users. “All of the money from the permits and the registration go into a dedicated fund, and the department administers that fund, but we partner with the Iowa State snowmobile Association, and 70 percent of those registration funds go to them, and they run a trail program, and so they work with all the local clubs that have designated snowmobile trails,” she says.
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You can register your snowmobile on the D-N-R website. “If a snowmobile has not been registered before, they’re going to need to go to their county recorder’s office. But to renew an existing registration, they can visit the county recorder, or they can just go online or use our go outdoors app if they already have that,” Flatt says. Flatt says they’ve been consistently seeing around 20-thousand registered snowmobiles each year.
(Radio Iowa) – After a fine fall weekend, forecasters say we’re in for a much colder week ahead with the chance for snow in parts of Iowa midweek. Meteorologist Dylan Dodson, at the National Weather Service, says a storm front will move in later today (Monday) bringing showers, with many areas of the state facing a 100-percent chance of rain. “We’ll see the first signs of that as winds really pick up on the backside of this late tonight into Tuesday morning, and then we’ll also have windy conditions on Wednesday,” Dodson says. “On Wednesday, when those colder temperatures really set in, high temperatures will be getting down into the low 40s to upper 30s, which means our overnight lows are going to be even colder. By the end of the week, we could be seeing widespread lows in the 20s.”
While parts of the Dakotas are expecting more than four inches of snow, Dodson says he doesn’t expect anywhere near those amounts in Iowa, though we may see some flakes flying on Wednesday. “We could see a dusting of snow more likely over the northern portions of the state,” Dodson says. “Not going to be much for accumulations, at least what we’re seeing right now for us, but we could certainly see some snow falling, and then further south and further east, we’ll be seeing more rain or maybe a rain-snow mix.”
The thunderstorms later today could be severe, with strong winds gusting up to 40 miles an hour. Tornadoes are unlikely, but are always possible, even in the final months of the year.) “We’ve had a lot of tornadoes across the state, December 15th, 2021 comes to mind. That had some of the highest tornadoes that we’ve ever seen in the state, and that happened in December,” Dodson says. “Tornadoes can happen any time of the year, so we’ve always got to stay aware. Obviously, the chances get lower when you get into the colder months, but it’s never zero.”
The National Weather Service recently confirmed an E-F-0 tornado hit near Bloomfield on November 5th. That adds to the record year for twisters in Iowa. The state’s now had 125 confirmed tornadoes this year, more than ever before.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — A man from northwest Iowa was arrested Saturday afternoon, after eluding law enforcement in a stolen vehicle that belonged to a Sioux City police officer. KCAU-TV in Sioux City reports, that according to the complaint documents, 34-year-old Elwood Freemont, of Sioux City, was listed as being involved in a police pursuit while driving a stolen vehicle. The documents state that Freemont eluded law enforcement in South Sioux City and was then seen by the Sioux City Police Department driving the wrong way down 6th Street at 70 mph in a 35 mph zone.
Freemont crashed the stolen vehicle and continued to elude officers on foot before being apprehended, according to the documents. The victim was informed of stolen items that were valued at approximately $357.49 after the fact. He was charged with first-degree theft, fourth-degree theft, and eluding at speeds 25 mph over the speed limit.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – A regular meeting of the Atlantic City Council takes place Wednesday (Nov. 20th) at City Hall, beginning at 5:30-p.m. Among the discussion/action items on their agenda, is the First Reading of an Ordinance “Amending the Code of Ordinances of the City of Atlantic” by “Amending Provisions Pertaining to All-Terrain Vehicles and Snowmobiles.”
In his meeting notes, City Administrator John Lund reports Iowa Senate File 2130 was developed in response to a 2020 survey, asking ATV and UTV riders what they would like to see changed in Iowa law, to better support riders of those vehicles. The survey results determined riders wanted to ride on more County and State roadways in all 99 counties, under a uniform State law. Cities were then left to create their own rules, but were not allowed to charge permitting fees.
Lund says the City of Atlantic’s Community Protection Committee met last August to review the options for adopting an ordinance regarding the use of ATV’s and UTV’s on city streets, and has reviewed and recommended to the Council an amended ordinance, which includes:
In other business, the Atlantic City Council is expected to approve a pay application to Hydro-Klean, LLC for the 2024 Sanitary Sewer Rehabilitation Project, and act to approve a related resolution accepting the work for the project and Ultra Violet CIPP (Cured In Place Pipe) Lining Project.
GLENWOOD, Iowa — Hundreds of people who were separated from society because they had disabilities are buried in a nondescript field at the former state institution in Mills County. According to the Iowa Capital Dispatch, disability rights advocates hope Iowa will honor them by preventing the kind of neglect that has plagued similar cemeteries at other shuttered facilities around the U.S.
The Glenwood Resource Center, was closed this summer in the wake of allegations of poor care. The last of its living residents were moved elsewhere in June. But the remains of about 1,300 people will stay where they were buried on the grounds. The graveyard, which dates to the 1800s, covers several acres of sloping ground near the campus’s brick buildings. A 6-foot-tall, weathered-concrete cross stands on the hillside, providing the most visible clue to the field’s purpose. On a recent afternoon, dried grass clippings obscured row after row of small stone grave markers set flat in the ground. Most of the stones are engraved with only a first initial, a last name, and a number.
During more than a century of operation, the institution housed thousands of people with intellectual disabilities. Its population declined as society turned away from the practice of sequestering people with disabilities and mental illness in large facilities for decades at a time. The cemetery is filled with residents who died and weren’t returned to their hometowns for burial with their families. State and local leaders are working out arrangements to maintain the cemetery and the rest of the 380-acre campus. Local officials, who are expected to take control of the grounds next June, say they’ll need extensive state support for upkeep and redevelopment, especially with the town of about 5,000 people reeling from the loss of jobs at the institution.
Iowa’s Glenwood Resource Center started as a home for orphans of Civil War soldiers. It grew into a large institution for people with disabilities, many of whom lived there for decades. Its population peaked at more than 1,900 in the 1950s, then dwindled to about 150 before state officials decided to close it. Two former employees of the Glenwood facility recently raised concerns that some of the graves may be mismarked. But officials with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, which ran the institution, said they have extensive, accurate records and recently placed stones on three graves that were unmarked.
Spokesperson Alex Murphy wrote in an email that while no decisions have been made about the campus, the agency “remains committed to ensuring the cemetery is protected and treated with dignity and respect for those who have been laid to rest there.” Glenwood civic leaders have formed a nonprofit corporation that is negotiating with the state over development plans for the former institution. “We’re trying to make the best of a tough situation,” said Larry Winum, a local banker who serves on the new organization’s board. Tentative plans include tearing down some of the existing buildings and creating up to 900 houses and apartments.
Max Cupp, a retired supervisor of the grounds at Iowa’s Glenwood Resource Center, brushes away grass clippings so he can check a grave marker at the shuttered institution’s cemetery on Oct. 9, 2024. (Tony Leys/KFF Health News)
On a recent day, just one of the Glenwood graves had flowers on it. Retired managers of the institution said few people visit the cemetery, but amateur genealogists sometimes show up after learning that a long-forgotten ancestor was institutionalized at Glenwood and buried there.
(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports a man was arrested last week, on drug charges. Authorities say 28-year-old Carlos Ivan Cortez, of Creston, was arrested at around 2-p.m. Wednesday at a residence in the 600 block of N. Pine Street, in Creston.
Cortez was charged with Possession of a controlled substance, 2nd Offense Marijuana and Unlawful Possession of Prescription Drug. He was taken to the Union County Jail and held on a $2,000 bond.
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