(Greenfield, IA) – Adair County Auditor Mandy Berg reports the City Election results have been updated to include write-in candidates that must be reported on the County abstracts. Those changes are highlighted in yellow (In the attached PDF). No write-in names need to be reported for the School election results.

Again, these results are unofficial until canvassed by the Board of Supervisors.

Unofficial Election Night Results – City with Write-Ins

November 6, 2025 (DES MOINES, IA) — The Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) today awarded $950,000 in Main Street Iowa Challenge Grants to 10 communities across the state. The grants help rehabilitate underutilized downtown buildings to stimulate economic growth and further investment in Iowa’s historic main streets.

Projects include:

• Corning — The City is receiving a $100,00 grant for a local match of $437,530 toward a total project cost of $537,520, to rehabilitate an historic building to house a health-focused grocery store, addressing local demand for fresh, wellness-oriented foods. The project will create new jobs and serve as a model for improving food access in rural communities.
• Guthrie Center is receiving a $50,000 grant toward restore a vacant historic building with a renewed brick façade, new windows and doors, updated systems and a refreshed interior. The finished space will be ready for a future tenant, supporting reinvestment and renewed activity in the downtown core. The grant requires a local match of $70,000 for the $120,000 project cost.
• Manning is receiving a $100,000 Main Street Challenge Grant with a $137,200 local match toward the total project cost of $237,200, for the second phase of a project. Following a full interior renovation that brought new businesses
  to the space, the second phase will repair the building’s deteriorated exterior and add a daylit basement apartment.
  Specialized masonry work will ensure the building’s historic character is preserved

“These projects are examples of the creativity and persistence we see in communities across Iowa,” said Debi Durham, director of IEDA and the Iowa Finance Authority. “When we invest in our main streets, we’re investing in the places where people come together — where entrepreneurs get their start, where families build memories and where the character of our communities truly shines.”

The grants are administered through IEDA’s Iowa Downtown Resource Center and Main Street Iowa programs. The funding will be distributed to the selected projects in the form of matching grants to their local Main Street programs. The estimated total cost of these 10 projects is nearly $3.6 million.

“These grants give a significant boost to excellent ideas that might not get off the ground otherwise,” said Jim Engle, director of the Iowa Downtown Resource Center. “Each completed project lifts the entire district — when you see lights back on in an upper floor or a storefront filled again, it sends a strong signal that good things are happening, and more are on the way.”

Since the first Challenge Grants were awarded in 2002, more than $16.5 million in funding has leveraged nearly $73.5 million in further investment. Read about the other cities and their projects here: file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/MSI_2025ChallengeGrants_FINAL-1.pdf

(Radio Iowa) – One person died in a house fire early this morning (Thursday) in Sergeant Bluff. Fire chief Anthony Gaul says they were called out to the house fire at 4:36 a-m. “Upon arrival, we did find a two-story residence with flames coming out all windows and all doors on the main level, and the second story,” he says. Gaul says they had already called for additional assistance before arriving.

One person died in a house fire Thursday in Sergeant Bluff. (photo from Sergeant Bluff PD)

“Got some additional assistance from Woodbury County Emergency Services and South Sioux City fire. We divided the fire up and unfortunately we did have a fatality in this and that is being further investigated by the medical examiner’s office,” he says.

Two investigators from the State Fire Marshal’s Office are looking for the cause of the fire. The home is considered a total loss.

(Radio Iowa) – Another Republican has entered the race for governor and it’s a candidate who says he’ll be the biggest donor to his own campaign. Zach Lahn kicked off his campaign this afternoon at his family’s century farm near Belle Plaine, which he bought in 2014 and where his family now lives. Lahn is the son of a pastor who grew up in Sioux City, got a degree in political science from Colorado University and got a job working for a member of Colorado’s state senate. He’s led campaigns for Republican candidates in Iowa and other states and has worked for the political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity.

Lahn now runs an investment business and says he’s not a politician, will be his biggest donor and can’t be bought. As governor, Lahn says he’d pursue an “Iowa First” agenda because the people who built Iowa are being pushed aside by greed and corruption. Lahn is calling for the break up big ag and big pharma monopolies that he says have rigged the system against farmers and poisoned Iowa families for generations.

(Glenwood, IA) – The Mills County Sheriff’s Office reports 31-year-old Jessica Elaine Harvey, of Glenwood, was arrested Wed. night. Harvey was taken into custody in Glenwood, on a charge of Domestic Assault-Bodily Injury/1st offense. Her bond was set at $1,000.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – Officials with Vision Atlantic report Tom and Dianna Williams, of Atlantic, recently made a generous $1,000 donation to support Vision Atlantic’s transformative community development project. Having called Atlantic home for more than 45 years, the Williams family says they have seen firsthand how collaboration and community spirit can shape a thriving hometown. Their commitment – Vision Atlantic says – reflects both a love for this community and a shared belief in investing in its future growth and vitality.

(Photo: Vision Atlantic President Christina Bateman alongside Tom and Dianna Williams. – Submitted by Vision Atlantic)

In a news release, Tom and Dianna Williams said “Atlantic has been home to our family for over 45 years. Our children were born and raised here, and now two of them are raising their own families in this same community. Dianna’s work in elementary education for over 36 years has fueled her passion for providing the best possible care for children and families. We’re proud to be a small part of this incredible group of visionary leaders working to expand and strengthen Atlantic. Communities can only grow and prosper when we all come together to make positive changes for the future.”

Vision Atlantic project includes a new housing development, child development center, and YMCA expansion.Read more about it at www.visionatlantic.org.

(Creston, Iowa) – Officials with the Creston Police Department say two vehicles sustained a total of $4,500 damage, but no injuries were reported following a collision Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Mills and Spruce Streets.

Authorities say a Ford SUV driven by 67-year-old Phyllis Shilling, of Greenfield, was traveling south on Spruce Street at around 2:20-p.m. As Shilling approached the intersection, she failed notice a Jeep SUV driven by 37-year-old Maggie Stuart, of Creston, who was traveling east on Mills Street. When Shilling failed to yield at the posted intersection, her SUV was struck by the Jeep on the right front side.

No citations were issued.

(Radio Iowa) – Some Iowans could see their first snowflakes of the season this weekend. Meteorologist Dylan Dodson, at the National Weather Service in Johnston, says there are still a lot of uncertainties in the forecast, especially across northern Iowa. “Because the temperature differences at the surface are going to matter a lot,” Dodson says. “One to two degrees could be the difference between rain or snow for you with this system as these typically are towards the beginning of the season.”

While today (Thursday) and Friday should feature unseasonably warm weather, the storm front will move in on Saturday, though the only sure thing is — it’ll be dropping some form of precipitation. “It’s tough to say how much we’re going to get,” Dodson says. “You could see some areas that just get all rain. There could be some areas that look at one to two, maybe even three inches of snowfall. It definitely is going to vary depending on where you’re at and what the temperature is in that area.”

While the forecast calls for parts of the state to experience low temperatures in the teens by Sunday night, highs could be back to near 60 by the middle of next week.

(Radio Iowa) – Health care providers who met with Rob Sand, a Democrat who’s running for governor, are raising concerns about the private companies that manage Iowa’s Medicaid system and the shortage of rural doctors. Dr. Abby Flannagan, a 33-year-old O-B-G-Y-N at UnityPoint Health in Grinnell, says without incentives to practice in rural Iowa, it won’t just be a shortage — there won’t be physicians delivering babies outside of urban areas. “And sadly, I think, in my lifetime,” Flannagan said, “which is terrifying ’cause it’s always something you think is never going to happen while you’re around, but I do think unfortunately in the next couple of decades we’re going to see that.”

Flannagan says UnityPoint in Grinnel is already the only hospital delivering babies between Waterloo and Pella and Des Moines and Iowa City. During a forum in Newton yesterday (Wednesday), Flannagan told Sand there need to be dramatically more residencies in Iowa for med school graduates and the state’s current student loan forgiveness programs are too limited. Sand held the listening session in Newton, where the city’s hospital closed its labor and deliver unit in 2024. “I think at the end of the day, the vast majority of Iowans want someone there to deliver their babies,” Sand said. “…I think it’s important we not just talk about being a welcoming Iowa, but just quit with the culture war and just be focused on solving real problems for people.”

Others who participated in the round table raised concerns about regulations they fear may penalize hospitals and doctors that deliver higher percentages of cesarean deliveries. The former president of Mercy Clinics in Des Moines told Sand hospitals, doctors and clinics are still waiting too long to get reimbursed for providing care to Iowa Medicaid patients — and have to consider whether it would cost more to sue or pay the interest on a line of credit from a bank while they wait to get paid by the managed care companies the state hired to handle transactions.