Officials with the Creston Police Department report one arrest and two incidents of vandalism occurred late last week. At around 6:35-p.m. Friday, 58-year-old James Chandler Sash, of Creston, was arrested at his residence, on a Union County warrant for Indecent Exposure – a Serious Misdemeanor. Sash was brought to the Union County Jail and later released on a $1,000 cash or surety bond.
Last Thursday (11/17), two men, one from Minnesota, the other from Shenandoah, reported to Creston Police, that the back windows of their trucks was broken out. The steering column in the vehicle from Minnesota, was broken. The incident happened while the vehicles were parked at the Quality Inn, in Creston. Nothing was reported missing in either case. The damage was estimated at $500 and $300 respectively.
Patrick Mahomes hit Travis Kelce for his third touchdown of the game with 31 seconds left to lift the Kansas City Chiefs to a big 30-27 win over the Los Angeles Chargers. With the victory Kansas City grabs a stranglehold on the AFC West lead, now three games ahead of the Chargers and own the tiebreaker with two wins over them this season.
The Chiefs took the lead early in the fourth quarter on Kelce’s second touchdown of the game, a 32-yard catch and run from Mahomes. The Chargers responded with a drive that ended with a 6-yard touchdown pass from Justin Herbert to Joshua Palmer with 1:46 left. The Chiefs then went 75-yards in 1:15 to finish with that third TD to Kelce.
Travis Kelce finished with 115 yards receiving on 6 catches with the three scores. It was Kelce’s 34th game with at least 100 yards receiving, which is a new NFL record.
The Chiefs improved to 8-2 overall and will next up host the LA Rams next Sunday afternoon. We’ll have that game on KJAN with pregame at 2:00 p.m.
The UNI women’s basketball team dropped a home game to No. 20 Creighton on Sunday 85-66. The Panthers fell in a 20-point hole in the first half and couldn’t climb out.
UNI got 14 points apiece from Maya McDermott and and Ryley Goebel. The Bluejays outscored the Panthers 25-12 in the opening quarter and were down 49-26 at the half.
UNI falls to 2-2 on the season. Next up the Panthers head to the Cancun Challenge in Mexico. They will play Tulane on Thanksgiving Day and Vanderbilt on Friday.
Tucker DeVries scored a career-high 29 points and the Drake men’s basketball team beat Wyoming 61-56 in the semifinals of the Paradise Jam in the Virgin Islands. DeVries went 10-14 from the field and 4-6 from three-point range to lead the Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs raced out to a 34-18 lead by halftime but had to fight off the Cowboys in the second half. Wyoming outscored Drake 38-27 in the second half.
Drake will play Tarleton State for the Paradise Jam title on Monday, Nov. 21 at 7 p.m. CT.
Iowa State outscored Milwaukee 17-8 to start the second half and cruised to a 68-53 win in Ames. The Cyclones led by as many as 24 as they move to 3-0.
That’s Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger. The Cyclones forced 27 Milkwaukee turnovers.
The seventh ranked Iowa State women raced out to a 30-17 lead at the end of one in a 99-76 win over Columbia in Ames. Ashley Joens had 33 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Cyclones. She finished seven of 10 from three point range.
The Cyclones improve to 4-0 and figure to climb in the national rankings.
(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Board of Supervisors in Cass County will begin their meeting Tuesday at 9-a.m., with a Public Hearing. The hearing is with regard to a proposed amendment to Zoning, changing McCunn Specialty Firearms, LLC from a Business District to Light Industrial, for the purpose of assembling firearms.
That’s Zoning Administrator Rich Hansen, who spoke during the Supervisor’s meeting on Oct. 25th. At the time, Hanson said letters would be going out to nearby landowners with regard to the proposed zoning change.
In other business, the Board will hear from Wendy Mueller, Executive Director of West Central Community Action. They’ll act on approving a Resolution to approve bids for two bridge projects, and an application for Family Farm Eligibility. The Cass County Supervisors meet, as always, in their Board Room inside the Cass County Courthouse, in Atlantic.
The meeting will be broadcast on Zoom, through a link found HERE.
(Atlantic, Iowa) The Director of the Atlantic Public Library provided an Annual Report to the City Council, last Wednesday. Michelle Andersen updated the Council on the Library’s mission statement from over the past year, and set a new strategic plan. The Mission Statement, she said, sets the framework for talking about the services offered by the Library, last year.
Another part of their Mission Statement, is connecting people to resources, which you would probably think of as traditional library services .
While still not at pre-Covid levels, Andersen said they are on the way back to what the use was before Covid. One of the more interesting resources the Atlantic and other affiliated libraries in Cass County have utilized over the past year, is the Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library.
Atlantic Public Library (Kathy Somers, photo, via www.atlantic.lib.ia.us)
When the child gets their 5th birthday book through the program, they are invited and encouraged to get their very own library card. On another note, Michelle Andersen said they received a grant in the form or a Public Library Collaboration Award, from the Network of the National Library of Medicine to use for mental health resources. The collaboration was between the libraries of Cass County and Healthy Cass County to accomplish three goals.
The other part was buying mental health resources shared across Cass County, and mental health programming.
During the fiscal year 2022, there were over 38,000 visits to the library, and 300 programs attended by 3,595 people. Revenues were funded approximately 86% from the City, with the rest through various other sources, including grants. Andersen pointed out the “Fees do not run a library. Fees are a part,” that help them recoup some of the cost of what it takes to do things associated with their programs and necessities.