The Cass County Board of Supervisors, during their regular session, Tuesday morning, will act on a Resolution to establish speed limits, etc., on a roadway (including portions of 620th St. and Lansing Road), to and from the rock quarry, south of Atlantic. During last week’s meeting, the Board’s consensus was to establish 40 mph as the speed limit for roadways designated as hauling routes, and to place additional signage.

The Board, Tuesday, will also discuss the closing of a 570th Street at the I-80 underpass (52.6 mile marker, north of Marne), per a request to consider from the Iowa Department of Transportation. In a 2016 study, the DOT deemed the road a “Low Priority” for repairs/maintenance, due to the low volume of traffic.

In its I-80 Planning Study, the DOT says “It is the policy of the Iowa Department of Transportation to secure permanent closure of existing local (non-primary) roads/streets, when in the judgement of the Department, it is in the best interests to close these roads/streets.”

In other business, the Board will enter into a closed session as required by Iowa Code, to evaluate the performance of Cass County Engineer Trent Wolken, who was hired earlier this year, after a more than six-month search for a qualified person to replace former Engineer Charlie Bechtold. Wolken started working for the County in March, 2020.

The Board’s meeting begins at 9-a.m., Tuesday. It will be held in-person at the courthouse, and electronically, via Zoom (meeting ID 138 870 131   Password: 012064)

A traffic stop in Red Oak early Sunday morning resulted in a woman being arrested on multiple drug charges. At 1:50 a.m. Officers conducted a traffic stop in the 1600 block of Summit Street. After investigation 28-year-old Priscilla Ann Jones of Red Oak was arrested for Possession of a Controlled Substance (Serious Misdemeanor), Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (Simple Misdemeanor), and Interference with Official Acts (Serious Misdemeanor). Jones also had an active warrant out of Douglas County, Nebraska for Possession of a Controlled Substance. Jones was further charged with False Identification and Fugitive from Justice. Jones was taken to the Montgomery County Jail where she was held on no bond.

The Red Oak Police department reports the arrest of a Red Oak man late Sunday night. At 11:40 p.m. Officers arrested 41-year-old Keith Benard Johnson Jr. in the 400 block of E Hammond Street for Child Endangerment-No Injury and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. Johnson was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $2,000 bond. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the arrest.

Two teenagers were injured during an ATV accident Sunday afternoon, in Page County. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2011 Kawasaki KVF-750 four-wheel ATV operated by a 13-year old male from Clarinda was traveling westbound on 180th Street at around 3:22-p.m., when  for reasons unknown, the machine went out of control and entered the south ditch.

The ATV then went airborne, causing both the operator and his 14-year old male passenger from College Springs to be ejected. The ATV came to rest on top of a fence. Both teens were transported to the Clarinda Hospital. Their names were not released.

The accident remains under investigation. Page County Sheriff’s Deputies and Clarinda Rescue assisted at the scene.

U-S Congressional candidate J.D. Scholten will be in Audubon County, Monday (Sept. 21st). Scholten is running for Iowa’s 4th District seat vacated by Steve King.  “J.D.” as he is known, is running a grassroots campaign that includes touring all the towns in the 39 counties in the NW quarter of Iowa in his “Sioux City Sue” Winnebago RV.

Scholten will be at the Exira City Park 2-p.m. Monday, and at the Audubon City Square at 3-p.m.

(Radio Iowa/KJAN) – Republican Senator Joni Ernst was speaking in Atlantic Friday evening when (KJAN’s Ric Hanson) informed her Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. Ernst repeated the statement to the crowd and said she was sorry to hear the news.

Ernst was asked what she thought President Trump will do to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court.

Earlier this summer Ernst said if there were to be a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020, the president should nominate someone and the U.S. senate should vote on the nomination. Theresa Greenfield, the Democrat who is running against Ernst this year, says the appointment should wait until the next U.S. Senate and president we’re about to vote for take office.

Greenfield, in a written statement released this weekend, said Iowans are independent thinkers and a delay until 2021 would respect the voices of voters.

At least three area school district Boards of Education will hold their regular (separate) monthly meetings, Monday evening (Sept 21st). The Boards for the Exira-EHK, Audubon and Griswold School Districts all have meetings set to take place.

Some items on the agenda for the Griswold School Board meeting (5:30-p.m. in the High School Conference Room) include:

• Personnel matters
• The Sale of a bus
• Discussion & possible action on a Veteran’s Day Program, and, Athletic Director Supervisor Pay.

The Audubon School Board meets at 7-p.m. in the High School Board Room, and will act on the following:

• Approval of a 28-E Agreement w/the Woodward Academy
• Approval of a Truancy Officer
• Approval of construction contracts for the Renovation Project
• and Personnel matters.

Other business/updates, will cover: the Summer Foods Program; Preliminary Enrollment Figures, Unspent Authorized Budget – Preliminary Figures, and the Building Project Update (including progress on plans and design).

And, the Exira-EHK School Board meeting takes place at 6-p.m. in the Conference Room at the Elk Horn Building.  Most of their agenda includes administrative matters, such as: Approving a law firm for the District; Approving a Secondary Lawyer for property and local matters; approval of Banking Institutions; Personnel matters, and more.

The City of Atlantic’s Parks and Recreation Department Board will meet 5:15-p.m. Monday, in the Council’s Chambers at City Hall. During their session, the Board will hear from Parks & Rec Director Bryant Rasmussen, with regard to:

• The Mascot Challenge
• Mollett Park (Walking path completed by the Atlantic Street Dept.)
  

  Mollet Park paved walking path (Atlantic Parks & Rec photos)

• The Walkability Maps
• Nishna Park washout
• Online Shelter Reservations, and…
• A Park Video.

In his regular report, Ramussen will update the Board on:

• The Schildberg Rec Area Campground – which is full
• Nesting Boxes
• Painting of playground equipment
  

  One of the many pieces of playground equipment has received a fresh coat of paint.

• Bandshell painting (Members of the Atlantic 1st Church of Christ worked on the project).
  

  Sunnyside Park Bandshell painted

• Bull Creek washout issues addressed
• Vandalism
• and Grants.

Two people were injured during a collision between a pickup truck and a semi, Sunday morning, in northeast Iowa’s Chickasaw County. According to the State Patrol, a Ford F-350 pickup driven by 21-year old Hunter Poppe, of Shell Rock, was traveling north in the southbound lane of Highway 63 from the exit ramp with Highway 18, when the pickup collided nearly head-on in the right lane, with a 2015 Peterbilt semi, driven by 58-year old Ricky Toutges, of Byron, MN. The collision happened at around 7:10-a.m.

Poppe suffered life threatening injuries and was transported by ambulance to the hospital in New Hampton and then to the Mayo Clino by helicopter. He was not wearing a seat belt. Toutges suffered minor injuries in the crash. The accident remains under investigation.

The State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Chickasaw County Sheriff’s Dept., IA DNR, IA DOT MVE, Mercy One Air, New Hampton Fire & Rescue, and New Hampton Ambulance.