(Radio Iowa) – Waterloo police are investigating vandalism at one of the city’s oldest cemeteries. Nearly 50 headstones were defaced or toppled at the historic Elmwood Cemetery sometime late Monday night or early Tuesday morning. Officials with the Elmwood Cemetery Association estimate damage at more than 10-thousand dollars ($10,000). Much of the vandalism was done in the oldest section of the cemetery.
One of the markers damaged was at the grave of Black Hawk County pioneers George W. and Mary Melrose Hanna. In 1845, they built the first house in what would later become the City of Waterloo. It will likely be weeks before the damage is repaired. No arrests have been made.
AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State volleyball team was picked to finish third in the 2020 Big 12 Preseason Volleyball Poll, released Tuesday. This marks the 11th time in the past 12 seasons that the Cyclones have been selected to finish in the conference’s top-three.
In head coach Christy Johnson-Lynch’s first 15 seasons at Iowa State, the Cyclones have reached or out-performed their Preseason Coaches’ Poll selection 13 times.
Iowa State returns everyone except graduating senior Josie Herbst from its 2019 squad which reached the NCAA Volleyball Championships. Yesterday, senior middle blocker Candelaria Herrera and junior right side Eleanor Holthaus were both named to the 2020 All-Big 12 Preseason Team.
IOWA CITY, Iowa — University of Iowa All-American and Hawkeye Wrestling Club member Pat Lugo has been named USA Wrestling Athlete of the Week.
At the co-main event of last weekend’s Rumble on the Rooftop in Chicago, one of the first wrestling events since March, Lugo tallied three step-outs and a second-period takedown to defeat former Ohio State All-American Luke Pletcher, 5-0.
The event marked both wrestlers’ first competition since their senior NCAA seasons were cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Each week USA Wrestling will select an Athlete of the Week based upon performance within wrestling for that week. The selection committee will consider any level of wrestling from youth programs through the senior level. Twitter fan votes also play a part in decision.
The Griswold School Board, Tuesday afternoon, took advantage of historically low interest rates and saved a good chunk of change. Superintendent Dave Henrichs told KJAN News he and the District’s Financial Advisor reviewed bids for the bonds at Noon, Tuesday. He says were due (at noon) to potentially refinancing $1.8-million worth of sales tax bonds that were issued in 2012, to repair some of the parking lot areas, re-do the track and improving athletic lighting.
Henrichs says they received two bids from different banks. The low bid was a 1.09% average interest rate from Rolling Hills Bank and Trust. The Board accepted the bid. Their action means the bonds will be refinanced, saving the District $138,544 interest over the life of the bond, and it will save $25,000 in fees associated with the bond, for a total savings of $173,000. He said while it saves the District money in the long-run, it does not affect the taxpayers, because it’s a sales tax based upon all sales in the State of Iowa, and not property taxes.
The current bond with UMB Bank will be paid-off through the refinanced bonds. Henrichs said also, Tuesday was the last day for long-time Griswold School District Secretary/Board Treasurer Nancy Taylor.
(Taylor has served the District for more than 30-years, and officially retired at the end of June.)
The month of June in Atlantic, was warmer than normal, and much drier. Data compiled here at the KJAN Studios (The official National Weather Service reporting site for Atlantic), indicate the Average High last month was 88, which was five-degrees warmer than average. The Average Low of 64 was also five-degrees warmer than normal. Precipitation for the month, which amounted to just 1.59-inches, was 4.24 inches, more than 3.4-inches drier than normal.
For the month of July, the average High here in Atlantic is typically 86 and the Low is normally around 63. Precipitation will typically amount to nearly 4.62-inches.