The City of Atlantic’s Planning and Zoning Commission will meet Monday evening, at City Hall. During their 5:30-p.m. session, the P&Z will review the site plans for the Iowa Interstate Railroad Office Building, and, the site plans for the Masker Plumbing and Heating Storage Building. 

The Commission will also review and discuss the first drafts of the Zoning Ordinance, which includes: An Overview and Reference Coding; General Provisions; Definitions, and R-1 (Residential/Agricultural/Open Space) definitions and descriptions.

Authorities in Guthrie County are continuing to investigate the reason behind a 9-1-1 service outage that occurred Saturday morning. The emergency line went down for about two-hours. In the interim, calls were being taken only at the Sheriff’s Office. It was the second time over the course of the past three-months 9-1-1 service was disrupted in Guthrie County. In May, a severed fiber-optic line was to blame for a similar disruption in service.

When floodwaters from the Missouri River threatened to wash away the small southwestern Iowa town of Hamburg last summer, residents helped the Army Corps of Engineers to hastily build a makeshift levee to save it.  Now, the town of nearly 1,200 is asking for help from across the country to keep the levee.  Town leaders have turned to the Internet to make their plea for help, building a site – www.hamburglevee.com – to try to raise the nearly $5 million needed to ensure the levee meets federal certification standards. Short that, the city would have to spend more than $1 million to tear the levee down.  The website notes that if 1.5 million give just $3 each to the effort, the levee can be saved “for less than a latte.”

Police in Council Bluffs are investigating a robbery which occurred early this (Sunday) morning. Officials say the Kwik Shop at 1602 Avenue G was robbed at around 3:45-a.m., by two masked individuals armed with handguns. The suspects wore hoods and bandanas when the entered the store and demanded money from the clerk. One was said to have been a white male, while the ethnicity of the other individual is not known.

The robbers fled the scene with an undetermined amount of cash. Their getaway vehicle was described as being an early 1990’s model four-door coupe. No one was injured during the incident, which remains under investigation. Anyone with information about the crime is asked to contact the Council Bluffs Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division at 712-328-4728.