The Shelby County Emergency Management Agency, Tuesday, said 2100th Street over Snake Creek, in the 1200 block of 2100th Street, is closed for the next six weeks or so, weather permitting, due to a bridge replacement project. The bridge is located between Greeley Township Sections 19 and 30, between Linden Road and Maple Road.

Emergency responders and residents in the area should plan to take alternate routes. If you have any questions, call the Shelby County Engineer’s Office at 712-755-5954.

Map of the affected area

In early 2018, Healthy Cass County received one of six community grant awards from the University of Iowa’s College of Public Health. Healthy Cass County used these funds to develop an initiative titled “Walk Cass County.” The project is to encourage walking as a way to connect families and friends while gaining countless health benefits.

The grant helped Healthy Cass County develop, print and distribute walking maps with routes of varying lengths in each of the eight Cass County towns. Hotch Studios, located in Atlantic, designed a new Healthy Cass County logo and all eight maps for the group.

You can get any of the eight maps by:

• Stopping by Cass County Public Health during business hours
• Locating maps throughout each community
• Visiting Healthy Cass County’s webpage to print the map of your choice http://www.atlanticiowa.com/relocate/health-wellness-2/healthy-cass-county/
• Downloading the ‘Map My Walk’ app and searching for the Healthy Cass County routes in any Cass County town.

Beth Olsen, Director of Public Health for Cass County and Healthy Cass County Coordinator, says “We have been making great strides here is Cass to improve our county health rankings and statistics. Walking is easy and best of all FREE. We hope these maps would engage community members and families by encouraging active lifestyles and togetherness by the simple act of walking.”

Like and follow the Healthy Cass County Facebook Page for more information on local health and wellness events or resources. If you would like to be part of Healthy Cass County, the group currently meets the second Monday of the month at noon. They invite Healthy Cass County partners around the table to discuss health and wellbeing initiates countywide. Call 712-243-7552, for monthly meeting locations. All are welcome to attend!

BROOKLYN, Iowa (AP) — State and federal agents are investigating the disappearance of a 20-year-old University of Iowa student who has been missing for nearly a week in eastern Iowa. KCRG TV reports that Mollie Tibbetts was staying at her boyfriend’s home in Brooklyn last week, watching his dogs while he was out of town for work. A neighbor reported seeing Tibbetts jogging Wednesday evening. She was reported missing Thursday.

Iowa Department of Criminal Investigations spokesman Mitch Mortvedt said Tuesday that FBI and state investigators are concentrating on areas around Brooklyn where Tibbetts has been in the past. He says volunteer searches have been called off. Mortvedt says the FBI also is using computer forensics, including Tibbetts’ online history and cellphone app usage, to help pinpoint where she might be.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — A 53-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of a woman at her home in Dubuque. Police say Garry James has been in custody since Saturday on unrelated charges from a bar disturbance. The murder charge was filed Monday. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment for him.

Friends told police they found the body of 53-year-old Michelle Kinney early Monday morning. Officers say she’d suffered puncture wounds. Police say evidence collected from James’ clothing “corroborated evidence” found in Kinney’s apartment.

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — A former school district official in northern Iowa has filed a lawsuit alleging gender and wage discrimination. The Globe Gazette reports that Mason City Schools’ former human resources director Jodie Anderson filed the suit Friday. The lawsuit names Superintendent Dave Versteeg, School Board Vice President Jodi Draper, HR Director Tom Drzycimski and the district. The lawsuit says Anderson found that “men were being paid more than women for the same categories of work” when she examined salary structures in 2015. The lawsuit says Drzycimski was hired for about $23,000 more than Anderson made, despite the equal work of the role.

Anderson worked for the district from 2015-2017. She says she resigned in part after feeling she had been discriminated against. Draper declined to comment to the newspaper.

Deputies in Page County responded at around 7-a.m. today (Tuesday), to a call of an intruder at 3095 Ivy Avenue, about one-mile north of Blanchard. When Deputies arrived, the homeowner explained that they woke up and found 34-year old Brandon Michael Risner, of Bedford, asleep in their entry way. The residents did not know Risner. When they tried to wake him, Risner responded that he had permission to be there. Deputies spoke with Risner, who did not know the homeowners or where he was.

Brandon Risner

Risner was found to have a warrant from Minnesota for 3 felony counts of Damage to property in the 1st degree and 3 counts of tampering with a motor vehicle. There is no bond on the warrant. He was transported to the Page County Jail where he is being held without bond, pending extradition to Minnesota.