Page County Sheriff Lyle Palmer reports that at around 5:45-p.m. Thursday, Deputies responded to a call about an assault at 3144 130th Street in rural Page County. That’s approximately 4 miles south of Villisca.
J. Dale
C. Blank
Their investigation determined 19-year old Joslyn Renea Dale, of Clarinda, went to the residence to confront 20-year old Chelsey Lane Blank, over some posts on Facebook. Dale and Blank began fighting. Blank later damaged the windshield of the vehicle Dale drove, that belongs to Stacy Marriott, of Clarinda.
Dale was arrested for Simple Assault and Child endangerment. She was transported to the Page County Jail and held on $2,000 bond. Blank was arrested for Criminal Mischief. Her bond was set at $1,000. The case is still under investigation, with additional charges are possible.
The pairings and brackets for Class 1A and 2A were released Friday by the IHSAA. For Class 1A opening round district play will be held on Monday, February 11th, Quarterfinals will be contested on Thursday, February 14th, Semifinals on Tuesday the 19th and District Finals will be played on Tuesday, December 19th. For Class 2A Quarterfinals are on the 11th, Semifinals on the 14th and Finals on the 19th. Substate Finals for both classes will be played on Saturday, February 23rd. You can take a look at all of the brackets here.
In Class 1A Exira-EHK, Ar-We-Va, AHSTW, Boyer Valley, Audubon, and Logan-Magnolia are all in District 15. Exira-EHK faces Boyer Valley in a Quarterfinal game on the 14th at 8:00pm, Audubon will take on Logan-Magnolia in the first game of a doubleheader in Elk Horn that night. AHSTW will play Woodbine in Westside prior to Ar-We-Va facing the winner of West Harrison/West Monona.
IKM-Manning will face West Bend-Mallard in the first game of a double dip in Fonda in District 16.
CAM ended up in District 13 and will play Earlham in the quarters. Southwest Valley will face Martensdale-St. Marys, Coon Rapids-Bayard faces Nodaway Valley and Ankeny Christian faces the Orient-Macksburg/Iowa Christian Academy winner in that district as well.
District 14 will feature quarterfinal match-ups of Stanton vs. Riverside, Griswold vs. East Mills, Fremont-Mills vs. Sidney, and St. Albert vs. the winner of Heartland Christian vs. Essex.
In Class 2A District 13 will feature AC/GC vs. Mount Ayr and Panorama vs. West Central Valley with Des Moines Christian and Woodward-Granger awaiting winners.
District 14 will have Clarinda facing Shenandaoh and Tri-Center vs. Red Oak with Treynor and Underwood with first round byes.
District 15 Will have Quarterfinals of Kuemper Catholic vs. MVACOU and Alta/Aurelia vs. Missouri Valley. OA-BCIG and East Sac County wait in the Semifinals.
New statewide voter registration totals are available. Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate said today (Friday) the 2,034,275 active registered voters is one of the highest marks in Iowa history. The information shows there are more “No Party” affiliation voters (175,066) in District 3 (which includes Cass County) then there are Democrats (174,467) and Republicans (173, 409). Other party affiliations amounted to 5,279.The total number of registered voters in District 3 is 528,221.
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In District 4, which has 494,109 registered voters: 192,086 are Republican; 121,341 Democrats, 177,343 are not affiliated with a party, and 3,339 say they have “other” party ties.
WANTED: The Shelby County Historical Museum is in search of some items for our Military exhibit hall renovation: 1930s or 40s kitchen sink, refrigerator (doesn’t need to work), and kitchen table. Call Museum at 712-755-2437.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court says an insurance company does not have to pay the city of West Liberty for damage to property caused by a squirrel that climbed onto an electrical transformer and created an electrical arc. The court says in a decision released Friday that the policy held by the city from EMC insurance excluded damage caused by electrical arcs that were not related to lightning. The city filed a lawsuit in January 2016 after EMC refused to pay the more than $213,000 in damage.
The city claimed the squirrel caused the damage but a district court judge and the Iowa Court of Appeals concluded the damage was caused by the electrical arc generated when the squirrel touched a 7,000-volt clamp and a grounded metal frame. The lower courts concluded the arc policy exclusion applied and the Supreme Court justices agreed.
(Radio Iowa) — Iowa-based researchers have concluded there’s little scientific evidence that sound from wind turbines poses a public health risk. Instead, the authors say reported symptoms of hearing loss or poor sleep are more likely related to people’s attitudes about wind development. The findings by the Iowa Policy Project and the Iowa Environmental Council are based on an overview of peer-reviewed studies. Co-author David Osterberg says reports of symptoms are associated with annoyance at developers rather than the actual sound of the turbines.
“Maybe you ought to think about how you treat people so they feel like they have more control over the whole process,” Osterberg says. “That would probably do more than trying to address the sound because we don’t think it’s the sound.” Wind turbines produce sound pressure, but Osterberg and his research associations concluded it’s not at a level that affects humans.
Vanessa Strazdas – Newly appointed Cass County Attorney.
(Updated 9:50-a.m.) The Cass County Board of Supervisors, today (Friday), announced the appointment of Vanessa Strazdas, an attorney with the Strazdas Law Firm in Omaha, to fill a vacancy position for the Cass County Attorney’s Office. Strazdas has accepted the job to succeed Michael Hooper, who was appointed Jan. 11th as 4th District Judge, by Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds.
Board Chair Steve Baier thanked Mr. Hooper for his work in seeking applicants for the position and for his service to the County.
Supervisor John Hartkopf said of Strazdas, she wasn’t only the unanimous choice of the board
(He said she was highly recommended by law enforcement and judges.)
He said also, the County is spending a lot of money on law enforcement, and it’s not because they’re out there issuing tickets.
(He said it is because of the “Underground war on methamphetamine,” and the Board feels they are supporting law enforcement in making their decision to hire Strazdas.)
Strazdas brought her family with her to the appointment hearing and swearing-in, and promised to uphold the law and serve the citizens of Cass County.
Strazdas grew up in Omaha, NE, where she attended Central High School. She is a National Merit Scholar and has a degree in Computer Science from the University of NE at Omaha. She graduated with honors from Creighton Law School, where she concentrated her studies in Litigation and Criminal Law. Strazdas is a member of the Iowa Bar. Iowa Code says a special election may be requested within 14 days of official notice from the time an appointment is made. The petition must have no less than 582 signatures. In addition to Strazdas, three candidates were interviewed for the County’s top position. They included Robert Engler (With the Cambridge Law Firm, in Atlantic); Anne Rohling, a lawyer from Council Bluffs who owns her own law firm and Marti Sleister, an experienced trial attorney in criminal and juvenile law, with the Sleister Law firm in Fremont, NE.
The Cass County Board of Supervisors also approved the appointment of Administrative Assistants to the Cass County Attorney. Bev Groves and Eva Jensen will continue with the roles they served as Hooper’s Assistants under the new County Attorney. The Board tabled a decision to fill a vacancy term of a Cass Township Trustee (an appointed position), because they are no current applicants for the job.
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