(Fontanelle, Iowa) – Adair County Elections Deputy Joshua Nelson reports the filing period for candidates interested in one of the three available city council seats in Fontanelle, is now open. The candidate filing deadline is 5:00 p.m. Friday, November 18, 2022.

The Special City Election will be Tuesday, December 13, 2022. The voter pre-registration deadline is Monday, November 28, 2022. Nelson says you may file an absentee ballot request with the Adair County Auditor’s office at any time.

The deadline to request an absentee ballot be mailed is Monday, November 28, 2022. The last day to vote absentee in the Auditor’s Office is Monday, December 12, 2022, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

(Glenwood, Iowa) – Glenwood Police reports three men were arrested on separate Mills County warrants earlier this week: 35-year-old Jeffrey Neppl, of Glenwood, was arrested Monday. His bond was set at $2,000; 65-year-old Lloyd Thomas, of Council Bluffs, was arrested on a warrant, Tuesday ($300 cash only bond); and, 38-year-old Adam Keller, of Glenwood, was arrested Tuesday. His bond was set at $10,000, w/10% allowed.

(Radio Iowa) – The Iowa Attorney General’s office is launching a website for anyone looking for help with what’s being called “opioid use disorder.” Lynn Hicks, a spokesman for the A-G’s office, says the site also provides general information about opioid addiction in an effort to reduce the stigma surrounding the illness. Hicks says, “Not only is this aimed at people suffering from opioid use disorder, as well as their loved ones who want to try to get them help, but also to the public to let them know that this is an illness.”

A state report says 258 Iowans died of opioid overdoses last year. Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller says the website will direct Iowans to resources in their area while educating the public about the addiction. “It’s not a status of life. It’s not a series of wrongdoings, it’s a disease, it should be treated as a disease and it’s treatable as a disease,” Miller says. “Drug treatment can work.” The website is: Iowa Opioid Help-dot-com. Iowa expects to receive more than 170-million dollars from settlements with opioid manufacturers in the next 18 years, money that will be divided between state and local governments.

More online at iowaopioidhelp.com

(reporting by Natalie Krebs, Iowa Public Radio)

(Creston, Iowa) – Two Creston men were arrested on separate Probation Violation charges, Tuesday. According to Creston Police, 38-year-old Lee Ryan Folwer and 36-year-old Robert Eugene Kibbe, III, were arrested at the Union County Law Enforcement Center. Fowler posted a $1,000 bond, and was released. Kibbe, who faces three counts of Probation Violation, was being held in the Union County Jail without bond, until seen by a judge.

(Radio Iowa) – The 28th Waterloo Honor Flight is flying out of the Waterloo Airport early this (Wednesday) morning, headed for the nation’s capitol. Flight organizer Craig White says the flight was scheduled to leave at 6:30 A-M, and it will be a long, memorable day for some 90 Vietnam and Korean War veterans headed to Washington, D-C.

David Seckar of Charles City is making his first Honor Flight and served in the Air Force during the Vietnam era.

Scott Lake of Waterloo, along with his brothers Steve and Tim, all served in the Army and are making the trip together.

The veterans are being accompanied by some 70 guardians. Their itinerary includes the Iwo Jima Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, the Women’s Museum, and the WWII Memorial, as well as the Lincoln, Vietnam, Korean, Martin Luther King and Air Force memorials. The Honor Flight is scheduled to return to Waterloo by around 9:30 p.m.

(Radio Iowa) – The parent company of Larson Doors is announcing the closure of its manufacturing plant in the northern Iowa town of Lake Mills, eliminating about 200 jobs. Company officials told employees about the move at the end of Tuesday’s daytime shift. The final shift for the day shift will be November 18th, while the night shift is done immediately. Larson Doors was purchased by Fortune Brands Home & Security of Deerfield, Illinois in November 2020.

A statement from Fortune Brands says the company conducted a reduction in force impacting positions across the organization, which included the closure of the Lake Mills facility as well as plants in Grand Prairie, Texas and Senatobia, Mississippi. The company says the decision was based on continued efforts to mitigate external economic risks, an assessment of the industry, and the evolution of the organization to best align with its growth strategy.

The company says they are committed to helping all of its displaced workers throughout the process.

(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports 35-year-old Thomas James Delgado, of Red Oak, was arrested at around 8:25-p.m. Tuesday, in Red Oak. Thomas was taken into custody in the 200 block of S. 2nd Street, on a charge of Domestic Abuse Assault by impeding the flow of air and/or blood. He was being held without bond in the Montgomery County Jail.

(Radio Iowa) – Some thermometers in western Iowa hit triple digits yesterday (Tuesday). National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Trellinger says the highest temperature reported to his office in Sioux Falls was 102, just south of Akron. “We got one of our sites at Morris, which is in Sioux County, at 100 degrees,” he says, “and then Spencer hit 101.” That was the temperature in Spencer at 5 p.m.

It’s been 97 years since Spencer had a 101 degree day in September — and that 101 degree day back in 1925 was on September FOURTH. Things warmed up quickly in Iowa yesterday (Tuesday), with temperatures soaring by 11 a.m.  “We just got a much warmer air into the region out ahead of a cold front, which really helped to effect all of these much warmer temperatures here in our region,” Trellinger says, “especially considering the time of year here, the middle-to-end of September.”

Trellinger says drought conditions played a role in yesterday’s high temperatures in northwest Iowa, as the sun’s heat bore down on parched ground. “When we’re not in a drought, the heat is also used to evaporate some of the moisture in the soil there, so it’s not as efficient as a heating mechanism when there’s moisture in the soil,” he says, “so by being very dry, that does set us up to being warmer than usual.”

Several other Iowa cities broke high temperature records Tuesday: In Atlantic we reached 99 degrees, which broke a 131-year old record of 95 (set in 1891); Cedar Rapids hit 96. That was also the record high in Lamoni. It reached 95 in Burlington. Des Moines hit 94 and it was 93 in Dubuque. Meteorologist Jim Lee of the National Weather Service office in metro Des Moines, who was tracking the records, says Waterloo hit 96 degrees. “We were unseasonably hot, as any resident would tell you,” Lee says. “We had multiple parts of the state get well up into the mid to upper 90s.” A triple digit temperature had not been recorded on a September 20th anywhere in Iowa for 69 years.

“By a lot of measures not only did we break daily records, but to be this late in the year and get this hot maybe it not unprecedented, but very rare,” Lee says. Today’s forecast: highs in the 60s and 70s.

(Redfield, Iowa) – A collision in Dallas County, east of Redfield, late Tuesday morning , left one person dead and two others, including a child, injured. The Iowa State Patrol reports a 2011 Dodge Grand Caravan driven by 97-year-old Arnold Philip Whitney, of Redfield, was southbound on I Avenue, when Whitney failed to yield as he proceeded to turn east onto Old Highway 6.

A 2018 KIA Sorento traveling east on Old Highway 6 and driven by 76-year-old Jeffrey Lynn Lyon, of Adel, struck the van in the rear, sending it into the westbound lane, directly into the path of a westbound 2010 Honda Odyssey van, driven by 34-year-old Savannah Louise Corbett, of Adel. The crash happened at around 11:15-a.m.

The Dodge and the Honda collided in the westbound lane before the Caravan came to rest in the north ditch. The Honda van spun around and came to rest facing east, in the westbound lane. The Patrol says Arnold Whitney died at the scene. Corbett, and her 11-year-old passenger, Olivia Corbett, were injured and transported to Methodist Hospital in Des Moines by Dallas County EMS.

All of the crash victims were wearing their seat belts. The Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office.

(Radio Iowa) – Health officials are encouraging Iowans to get flu shots as soon as possible. The experts say Australia is already experiencing its worst flu season in five years, which could indicate it will also be severe in the U-S. Nola Aigner -Davis, spokeswoman for the Polk County Health Department in Des Moines, says the county is still seeing many COVID-19 cases and its hospital system is again strained.

“We really need to still be good to our hospital and healthcare systems,” Aigner-Davis says, “because they’re still in a staffing shortage from COVID-19. They’re still taking care of very sick individuals.” Since early 2020, more than 46-thousand Iowans have been hospitalized for treatment of COVID, while the state’s death toll from the virus is expected to exceed 10-thousand when the official numbers are released on Wednesday.

“We’re not seeing COVID slow down,” she says. “We keep hearing of people getting sick, being hospitalized. Cases aren’t stopping and you can get COVID and the flu at the same time.” Aigner-Davis says people who are interested can get a flu shot and a COVID booster in one visit, while Iowans who think they have the flu should contact their doctor for guidance. In the past few years, Iowa’s average life expectancy has fallen about a year-and-a-half due to COVID.

(reporting by Natalie Krebs, Iowa Public Radio)