Cass County Auditor Dale Sunderman reports, beginning in 2019, School Board Elections and City Elections will be held on the same day: November 5, 2019. For the majority of voters, the voting site will be the site used for the “General Election”.

There will be separate ballot styles for the city and rural voters since only city voters cast a ballot for city offices. School Board Elections will take place on November 5, 2019. Nomination papers for offices to be filled in 2019 can be filed (with the school board secretary) August 26, 2019 through September 19, 2019. All offices are four year terms. Nomination papers for elected school office positions must be filed
with the secretary of the respective school board.

Nomination papers for local school boards may be filed with the respective
school board secretary from August 26, 2019 thru September 19, 2019.

Becoming a candidate for elective school office:
Nominations – Nomination petitions for a school board office must be filed with the respective board secretary not more than 71 nor less than 47 days prior to the regular election. (In 2019, the first day to file papers is August 26. The last day to file papers is September 19.)

The process for filing nomination petitions is as follows:

• Obtain an original nomination petition and candidate’s guide from the board secretary, county auditor or online from the Iowa Secretary of State ( www.sos.iowa.gov ).
• Obtain the nomination signatures of the required number of eligible electors of the respective school district or local director district, as the case may be. The candidate’s guide lists how the number of signatures required is calculated. The number of signatures required depends upon the number of registered voters in the respective director district on May 1, 2019.
• A person may sign nomination petitions for more than one candidate for the same office.
• Attach a notarized affidavit acknowledging the candidate’s eligibility.
• File the petition with the respective school board secretary prior to 5 p.m. on September 19, 2019.

Each candidate who successfully files a completed nomination petition is assured a place on the ballot. In Cass County, Iowa the following offices will appear on the ballots for the respective school districts on November 5, 2019:
Atlantic Community School District
Three At Large local directors – Nominated and elected at large (Minimum of 50 signatures for nomination)
Incumbents (all from Atlantic): Alison A. Bruckner; Keith R. Swanson, & Jenny Williams.

The Mills County Attorney’s Office reports a Glenwood woman arrested late this (Thursday) morning in connection with a shooting Wednesday night, has been charged with Attempted Murder, a Class B Felony; Willful Injury causing Serious Injury, a Class C Felony; and Domestic Abuse Assault with Intent to Cause Serious Injury, an Aggravated Misdemeanor. 37-year old Brandy Nickole Clark is being held at the Mills County Jail pending an appearance before the Magistrate. The incident is still under investigation.

At around 8:30-p.m., Wednesday, Glenwood Police Officers responded to the area around 307 North Vine Street, in Glenwood. Upon arrival, officers located a 34-year old man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was safely evacuated from the scene and transported to a medical facility. The victim is currently being treated for his injuries and is in stable condition. No name has been released.

Glenwood Police apprehended Clark without incident, after she returned to her home, reportedly to check on her dog. If convicted on all of the charges, Clark faces 37-years in prison plus fines amounting to as much as $16,250.

The Glenwood Police Department would like to thank the Mills County Sheriff’s Office, Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Office, Iowa State Patrol, Iowa Department of Public Safety Division of Criminal Investigation, Glenwood Fire & Rescue, Silver City Fire & Rescue, Pacific Junction Fire & Rescue, LifeNet and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance throughout the incident.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ousted Iowa Department of Human Services Director Jerry Foxhoven says aides to Gov. Kim Reynolds are lying when they say he never objected to paying the salary of a governor’s staffer out of his budget. Jerry Foxhoven, a 67-year-old legal scholar known for his frequent workplace praise of the late rapper Tupac Shakur, said Thursday he raised the issue more than once and wouldn’t agree to pay most of the salary of the governor’s deputy chief of staff, Paige Thorson, without legal advice.

Foxhoven says he thought it might be illegal because Thorson would no longer be doing significant Medicaid work in the new fiscal year, which began July 1. Foxhoven is filing a legal claim of wrongful termination, alleging he was the victim of whistleblower retaliation. Foxhoven was asked to step down last month. Reynolds and her staff deny he raised concerns about the pay issue.

A spokesman says Reynolds wasn’t immediately available for comment.

(Radio Iowa) — Charges have now been filed in the shooting death of a woman in a Creston home earlier this summer. Thirty-seven-year-old Charles Keeton of Creston is charged in the slaying of 44-year-old Christy Hribral on June 19th. Union County Attorney Tim Kenyon said “Formal charges were filed in connection with the death of Christy Hribal. Defendant Mr. Keeton was originally charged with felon in possession of a firearm. The formal charge of murder in the second degree was filed. He is now facing that as count one. The felon in possession of a firearm matter as count two.”

Hribal was visiting the home where the shooting took place. Keeton’s arraignment is scheduled for August 9th. He’s held on a $60,000 bond.

(Radio Iowa) No one was hurt in the derailment of a B-N-S-F train in northwest Iowa near Hull on Wednesday night. The Sioux County Sheriff’s Office says approximately 25 cars of the 83-car train derailed. The cars were carrying refrigerated meat, tank, freight, rock, and denatured alcohol products. Sheriff’s Captain Jamie Van Voorst says the car carrying the denatured alcohol did have a very slow leak, but it was being contained as of early Thursday morning.

Van Voorst says, “There’s not an immediate danger but they don’t want to have people driving through, causing any fire or spark, anything like that, so the crews can get in there and be uninterrupted.” He says it’s too early to know the cause of the derailment and he urges people to stay away from the area as crews work to complete the investigation. Last June, a train derailed on that same track just a few miles away.

BRITT, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man has died after being injured in an explosion at a northern Iowa business. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that 62-year-old Gary Olson died in the explosion Wednesday morning at Miller and Sons Golf Cars just south of Britt. KIMT-TV reports an investigation shows the explosion occurred when a metal barrel used to collect oil somehow ignited. Olson was flown to University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, where he died Wednesday afternoon.

Mark Miller, an owner of the business, was injured when he fell while trying to help Olson. He was being treated for a head injury at a Mason City hospital. The State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the explosion.

Officials with the Atlantic Community School District report online student registration is now available for the upcoming school year. An email was sent to parents this (Thursday) morning letting them know it is now available. The email said the “Atlantic Community School District will continue to utilize the “rollover” online registration process with JMC, the district’s student information system. Parents of student(s) who attended ACSD last school year (2018-19) and were still in attendance on the last day of school will need to complete the Register for 2019-2020 process in JMC as well as pay student fees and make lunch deposits.

“Students who are new to the school district and are planning to enroll for the 2019-20 school year will need to register for school at our school buildings.” School officials said also, that “During this time we will be more than happy to give new students tours of their new school.”

Parents can access more registration information including free/reduced meal applications, athletic physical forms, and much more by visiting the district’s registration web site, http://www.atlanticiaschools.org/registration

A Glenwood woman wanted in connection with a shooting late Wednesday night was arrested at around 10:50-a.m. today (Thursday) without incident, inside her Glenwood home. 37-year old Brandy Clark was taken into custody after she returned to her home, to check on her dog. The woman was reportedly seen by a neighbor entering her home. Police found her hiding inside a closet. Authorities had earlier described Clark as “armed and dangerous.” The Mills County Attorney’s Office said Clark was being held in the Mills County Jail pending charges, and an initial appearance before the magistrate.

Brandy Clark

Glenwood Police were called to the home in the area of 307 N. Vine Street at around 8:30-p.m., Wednesday. Upon arrival, officers located a 34-year old male who had suffered from multiple gunshot wounds. The man was safely evacuated from the scene and transported to a medical facility. Investigators initially believed Clark had barricaded herself inside a home after the shooting. They blocked off the neighborhood and evacuated people from several nearby homes. The Iowa State Patrol said a tactical unit eventually made entry into the home and only found a dog inside.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Law enforcement officials say they have lost track of evidence from a 1980 murder case that an Iowa inmate wants to examine for DNA that could prove his innocence or guilt. The missing evidence comes in the case of William Beeman, who is serving a life sentence in the stabbing death of 22-year-old Michiel Winkel.

Its absence could prevent the public from knowing definitively whether Beeman was the right man in the rape and killing of Winkel — or should be Iowa’s first inmate exonerated by DNA.
Winkel’s nude body was found in April 1980 at Wildcat Den State Park near Muscatine. Beeman was convicted based largely on a confession that he claims was coerced. His lawyers filed a motion seeking DNA testing on a sexual assault kit that included sperm recovered from Winkel and items of her clothing found at the scene. But the Division of Criminal Investigation and Muscatine County Sheriff’s Office said last week that they have searched and cannot find the evidence.

A court hearing is set for next week.