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The Griswold School Board met Monday evening, and took time out to view the Governor’s address to Iowans with regard to COVID-19. Superintendent Dave Henrichs told KJAN News the Board was already set to discuss the Mask Mandate within the school and/or athletic events. The end results was essentially the status quo.
Henrichs said as far as High School athletics are concerned, those will continue as usual.
Until January 10th, however, all Junior High Youth Sports are postponed or suspended. Henrichs said also, Wrestling Cheerleading is cancelled for the year.
In other business, the Griswold School Board elected Rob Peterson to succeed Aaron Houser as President, while Don Smith continues as Vice President. And, the Board accepted two early retirement applications from long-time instructors. One of them is Kevin Blair, Agricultural/FFA Advisor.
(The other is Kim Wood, MS/HS Special Education instructor. Blair has served as a teacher for 33-years, 15 of those in the Griswold District. Kim Wood also has 33-years of experience. Their resignations are effective at the end of the current school year.)
Officials with the City of Atlantic report effective IMMEDIATELY, the lobby for City Hall & the Police Department, is CLOSED until further notice due to rising numbers of COVID-19. If you need assistance, call the following numbers: Atlantic Police Department (Non-Emergency): 243-3512; Atlantic City Hall: 243-4810.
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A man from Council Bluffs was arrested a little after 4-a.m. Tuesday (Today), on U-S Marshal’s Office warrant for Probation Violation on an original Possession of Weapons, charge. 37-year old Trevor Wayne Steadman was arrested in the 100 block of W. Nuckols Street. 
Numerous agencies were involved in his arrest, including Deputies with the Montgomery, Mills and Fremont County Sheriff’s Offices, the Fremont County K-9 Unit, Iowa State Patrol, and Montgomery County Communications Center. Steadman was being held without bond in the Montgomery County Jail.
Police in Creston report 40-year old Aaron Riepe, of Creston, was arrested at around 11:45-p.m. Monday, on a Union County warrant. The warrant was for Failure to Appear on the original charge of (2 counts) Theft in the 2nd Degree. Riepe was additionally charged with Violation of a Protection Order. He was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting a bond hearing.
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Iowa’s Coronavirus dashboard as of 10-a.m. Tuesday (today), indicated there have been 33 additional deaths attributed to COVID-19 since Monday’s report, for a total of 2,024. The number of deaths attributed to a pre-existing conditions statewide are 1,274, while deaths at Long-Term Care facilities amount to 945, 11 more than yesterday. There are two more deaths to report in Cass County, for a total of 16, and one more death in each of Harrison and Pottawattamie Counties.
Officials say there have been 3,563 new confirmed, Positive cases of the virus reported since 10-a.m. Monday, for a total since the pandemic began, of 190,583. Cass County has 14 new, Positive cases of COVID, for a total of 663. Double-digit Positive case increases were reported in Adair, Audubon, Harrison, Madison, Mills, Montgomery, Shelby and Union Counties. Pottawattamie County reports 266 new positive test results since Monday. (See the list below).
There are 96 Long-Term Care facility (LTC) outbreaks, four less than yesterday. Those care facilities report 2,880 positive cases and 1,439 recovered.
Hospitalization rates continue to climb, from 1,392 Monday, to 1,510 today. The IDPH says a record 288 COVID patients are in the ICU (17 more than Monday), 215 patients were admitted to a hospital (compared to 243 yesterday), and there are seven more people on a ventilator, for a total of 130. In western/southwestern Iowa: there are 68 COVID patients in the hospital (2 less than yesterday); 22 are in an ICU (2 more than Monday), five people were admitted to a hospital (compared to 12 on Monday), and there are seven people a ventilator (1 less than yesterday).
The state’s data shows that 1,114,057 Iowans have been tested for coronavirus. Test results received yesterday amounted to 8,218, with 6,200 coming back Negative and 2,003 Positive. The total number of Negative results since the beginning of the pandemic is 921,656. The state receives test results from prior days and adds them to the overall total. Iowa’s 14-day positivity rate is 22.8, and the Individual Positivity rate is 17.1%. The IDPH says 109,929 Iowans have recovered from the virus.
In the KJAN listening area, here are the current number positive cases in each county, along with the 24-hour change in case numbers {+#}; the number of persons recovered, and the total number of [deaths] (if any), since the pandemic began,
Sheriff’s officials in Montgomery County report the arrest at around 9:12-p.m. Monday, of 57-year old Teresa Williams, from Red Oak. Williams was arrested following an incident in the 2300 block of Eastern Avenue. She was transported to the Montgomery County Jail and charged with Assault on a person in certain occupations. Her bond was set at $1,000. Red Oak Police assisted in the arrest.
Three people were arrested Monday night, in Red Oak. Authorities say at around 7:47-p.m., Officers responded to a disturbance in the 100 block of E. Reed Street, and upon further investigation, arrested 28-year old Maiah Lynn Caron and 33-year old Johnny Earl Gossett II, both of Red Oak, for Violation of a No Contact Order. The pair were transported to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $300 bond each. Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies assisted in their arrests.
And, at around 10-p.m. Monday, Red Oak Police arrested 56-year old Roy Dean Baker, of Des Moines, for Public Intoxication. He was arrested in the 2300 block of Eastern Avenue, and held on a $300 bond.
FORT MADISON– Officials with the Iowa Department of Corrections, Monday, said a correctional officer was assaulted by an inmate at the Iowa State Penitentiary at approximately 2:42 p.m., Monday. The officer was working at their post in a living unit when an inmate, unprovoked, approached the officer and began striking them several times in the face with closed-fists. Additional staff arrived quickly to take control of the aggressive inmate.
The officer was taken by department vehicle to the local hospital to be seen for injuries to the face, and has since been released. The inmate involved in the assault was found to have not suffered any injuries. The incident remains under investigation.
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