In an update to our earlier reports, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office confirms an Atlantic man was injured during a single-vehicle rollover accident east of Marne, Monday morning. The accident happened on Highway 83 (The Marne Road), a little before 8-a.m. Authorities say 22-year old Kyle Krueger, of Atlantic, was traveling westbound in a Ford F-150 pickup, when the vehicle went out of control off the right shoulder of the road, crossed the highway and rolled into the south ditch. Krueger was transported by Medivac Ambulance to the Cass County County Memorial Hospital for treatment of his injuries. The accident remains under investigation. The pickup sustained an estimated $5,000 damage.

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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa agency is keeping secret a list of about two dozen former criminal offenders who were improperly granted credentials to work for private security firms.
The Iowa Department of Public Safety denied an open records request Friday that sought the identities of those individuals whose security cards were recently revoked. The revocations came after the discovery that the department granted 5,800 private security employees credentials to work in Iowa without undergoing mandatory federal criminal background checks.

The department has for a year worked to retroactively complete those checks. Commissioner Stephan Bayens said it has revoked 20 to 25 cards of those found to have disqualifying criminal histories.

In keeping the list secret, department lawyer Catherine Lucas cited a state law that says names of employees of licensed security firms “shall be held as confidential.”
But it’s unclear whether that law applies to those revoked. Other parts of the law allow the department to release information about disciplinary action taken against licensees and to confirm whether an individual is an employee of a licensed agency.

Sheriff’s Deputies in Page County, Monday, arrested 37-year old Richard Doran Alexander, of Shambaugh. Alexander was arrested on a Department Of Corrections Felony Warrant for Parole Violation. He was on Parole for an original charge of Domestic Abuse Assault 3rd or subsequent Offense. Alexander was found to be hiding in a basement at a residence in Shambaugh, where he was staying. He was transported to the Page County Jail for holding as there is no bond on the warrant.

Richard Doran Alexander

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new report says an August survey of business supply managers suggests slow or no economic growth over the next several months in nine Midwest and Plains states.
The report issued Tuesday says the Mid-America Business Conditions index dropped below growth neutral in August, hitting 49.3 compared with 52.0 in July. The index had remained above growth neutral for 32 straight months.

Iowa’s overall index sank below the 50.0 threshold to hit 49.7 last month, compared with 52.6 in July. Index components were new orders at 51.8, production or sales at 49.4, delivery lead time at 59.4, employment at 45.7 and inventories at 42.1. Manufacturers experienced slightly positive growth over the past 12 months.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he blamed the slowdown on weak farm and manufacturing sectors, produced in part by tariffs and a global economic slowdown. The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests growth. A score below that suggests decline.

The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

Members of the Atlantic City Council will meet in the Council’s Chambers 5:30-p.m. Wednesday, at City Hall. On their agenda, is:

• A Proclamation by Mayor Dave Jones, recognizing Sept. 21st at Alzheimer’s Awareness Day. The City will join in the International community in bringing awareness of the disease.
• An order approving an Administrative Contract with SWIPCO (The Southwest Iowa Planning Council), for the CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) Downtown Revitalization Project. Alexis Fleener, Community Development Team Leader for SWIPCO, will be the grant administrator for the project, the services for which will cost $30,000. All of the costs are part of the grant itself, and are not part of the grant match, according to City Administrator John Lund.
• On a related note: The City Council will act on approving the final design contract for the CDBG project, the architectural and construction aspects of which will be handled by RDG Planning and Design. The total cost of their services is $130,000, $80,000 of which is from the grant, with the remaining $50,000 part of the City’s match. Eight downtown businesses are participating in the business revitalization program, with a combined share cost of $171,375.
  

  Building facade improvements proposed by RDG Architects.

• The Atlantic City Council will also consider a request from Brown’s Shoe Fit to close-off the sidewalk and parking at in front of the store at 502 Chestnut, for a Summer Clearance sale. City Code states that “It is unlawful….for goods or merchandise for sale or display…to interfere with the free and uninterrupted passage of pedestrians on the sidewalk…[and] more than three-feet of the sidewalk next to the building….”
• The Council will also act on a Resolution setting the salary of the Parks & Recreation Director (Bryant Rasmussen), after action last week by the City’s Personnel & Finance Committee, recommending his salary be $47,600. The increase was requested by the Parks Board, following Rasmussen’s change of employment status on August 19th from Interim Parks & Rec Director, to permanent Parks & Rec Director.
• And, the Council will hold a Public Hearing on Vacating a portion of the final plat of the Country Oaks Addition.

In other business, Atlantic Police Chief Dave Erickson, Wednesday, will make an announcement with regard to deer hunting within the City Limits. Erickson has received word from the Iowa DNR, and a recommendation, that only 10 Does be harvested this year inside the City. The Bow Hunting season would begin Oct. 1st, and end on Dec. 6th.