Firefighters from Stuart responded at approximately 10:30-a.m. Saturday, to a structure fire just south of town. In a social media post, fire officials said “Upon arrival we found a fully involved garage fire that had spread to the attic. A quick knock down on the garage was completed and the roof ventilated. Crews from Menlo and Dexter fire assisted in bringing the attic fire under control. Stuart Rescue was on scene and provided firefighter rehab and aid to any patients.”

Photos courtesy the Stuart Fire Dept. Facebook page

Officials said also, they “Very much appreciate their help and the assistance of law enforcement for traffic control. All crews returned safely.”

The Creston Police Department reports two arrests: 38-year old Benjaman Hunsucker, of Creston, was arrested today (Monday) at around 2:37-a.m.  He was taken into custody on a charge of Violation of a Protection Order. Hunsucker was being held in the Union County Jail while awaiting a bond hearing. And, Friday morning, 26-year old Austin Jones, of Creston, was arrested on a Union County Warrant for Burglary 1st Degree. Jones was released from the Union County Jail on a $25,000 bond.

The CAM School Board will meet in a regular session 6:30-p.m. today (Monday), in Anita. The meeting takes place in the CAM High School Superintendent’s Office. On the agenda, in addition to any personnel matters, is discussion and/or action on: approving an Athletic Trainer Agreement; Approving a 2006 School Bus Bid; an Elementary Vocal Sharing Agreement with Nodaway Valley, and various Board Policies/updates with regard to Public Emergencies and School Bus Safety instructions.

The CAM School Board will also hear an update on the District’s Return to Learn plan, and High School handbook-graduation requirements.

(Radio Iowa) — As grade school leaders debate how classes will be held this fall, higher education will continue in eastern Iowa with a mix of in-person and virtual classes. Don Doucette, chancellor of Eastern Iowa Community Colleges, expects about one-third of students to take classes face-to-face.  “We’re also offering courses on campus, especially those that require on-campus hands-on training, laboratories, things like that, but others as well,” Doucette says. “We know that some students learn and need to learn with in-person instruction.”

Students at the community college campuses in Clinton, Muscatine and Scott counties will be asked to follow C-D-C recommendations for COVID-19.  “Our classrooms have been socially distanced with reduced capacity in all of those classes, all kinds of plexiglass shields for front-line staff, disinfectants and hand sanitizer all over the place,” Doucette says. “Everybody picks up a wipe on the way into a class and wipes down their desk.” Craig DeVrieze, at Saint Ambrose University in Davenport, says classes will start a week early on August 17th, and they’ll be in the hybrid format. “Half of the students will take a class on a Monday in-person and then the other half will be observing online. Then, the following day, they will switch places,” DeVrieze says. “That will help us achieve the social distancing that we need in order to stay safe.”

Students at Saint Ambrose, where the school mascot is the Fighting Bees, are being asked to commit to the “Bee Safe, Bee Responsible” promise, to follow C-D-C guidelines.  “We make available to students an opportunity to learn strictly online, to stay home and take advantage of as many of our online offerings as they can,” DeVrieze says. “We hope the students who don’t feel like they want to come on campus will take advantage of that and work to complete their degree.”

Doucette and DeVrieze say enrollments at Eastern Iowa Community Colleges and Saint Ambrose are steady to slightly higher compared to a year ago.