The Creston Police Department reports 29-year old Quinton Lee Kimball, of Creston, was arrested Wednesday evening, for Harassment in the 3rd Degree. Kimball posted bond and was released from the Union County Jail. And, Regency Park in Creston reported to the police department on Sept. 20th, their maintenance building had been broken into. The damage was estimated at $200.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A push has begun in Dubuque to change the name of a park to honor of a one-time slave who gained his freedom and another Black man killed in a lynching. The Dubuque Telegraph Herald reports that the Dubuque branch of the NAACP and other community members support renaming Jackson Park after both men, Ralph Montgomery and Nathaniel Morgan.

Montgomery was a slave living in Dubuque when, in 1839, he won his freedom in a ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court. It was only a year later that Morgan was killed in a lynching. The park is currently named for President Andrew Jackson.

Officials with the AHSTW School District announced Thursday, the District’s Board of Education will hold a Special Meeting 4-p.m. today (Friday), in the Elementary School Library in Avoca. The only action item on their agenda is a “Return to Learn” Plan. The District began a continuous learning/remote education plan on Tuesday, due to the COVID-19 outbreak. That plan is set to run through today.

In a separate message, school officials said Thursday, they are continuing to assess absenteeism percentages, and are hoping to have decisions and plans regarding their learning format for the week of October 5th ready to share, following today’s Special Meeting.

Members of the Griswold School Board will hold a Special Session 5:30-p.m. Monday, in the Griswold Elementary School Library (20 Madison Street). Superintendent Dave Henrichs says the purpose of the meeting is to consider and act on: the format of parent-teacher conferences, and implementing a mask mandate.

(Radio Iowa) – Vice President Mike Pence drew cheers from crowds in Iowa yesterday as he vowed Republicans will soon fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. “And Judge Amy Coney Barrett is going to be Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court of the United States,” Pence said, to cheers in Des Moines.

Pence spoke at a manufacturing plant in Carter Lake early Thursday afternoon, then addressed about 600 people at an event in downtown Des Moines hosted by The Family Leader. Pence says the president nominated a remarkable, conservative woman and he challenged Democrats to provide her a “respectful” Senate confirmation hearing.

“When she was nominated to the Court of Appeals, during Judge Barrett’s confirmation hearing, the Democratic chairman of the Judiciary Committee criticized her Catholic faith, saying: ‘The dogma lives loudly within you.'” California Democrat Dianne Feinstein is the senator who questioned how Barrett’s faith would influence her opinions as a judge. Pence says that criticism had been revived by “Hollywood elites” opposed to Barrett’s ascension to the Supreme Court.

“That dogma lives loudly in me. That dogma lives loudly in hundreds of millions of Americans and every American who cherishes faith has the right to live and work and worship according to the dictates of our faith and conscience, enshrined in the Constitution of the United States,” Pence said. The crowd gave his statement a standing ovation. This was the vice president’s fifth trip to Iowa this year. He promised his Iowa audiences a Covid vaccine is “weeks away.”

Joe Biden’s deputy campaign manager issued a written statement responding to Pence’s visit, saying after nearly 90-thousand Iowans contracted Covid, there’s no end in sight to the pandemic’s impact on the health and finances of Iowans.