The CAM School District’s Board of Educators is set to meet during a special session Thursday morning in the CAM High School Media Center. The meeting begins at 7:30-a.m. During their session, the Board will discuss and act on several matters, including: Open enrollment applications; Resignations; Contracts; 2016-17 Master Contract, Teacher contracts, Schedule B, Support Staff and Administrative contracts.

The Board will also act on a Resolution adopting the Cass County Hazard Mitigation Plan, and set the date/time for a public hearing on the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), along with the authorizing of bids and setting the date and time for public hearings on the parking lot improvement project and bus lane improvements.

About 200 people who are customers of Atlantic Municipal Utilities (AMU) are or were without power this morning. A person who answered the phone could not say what the problem was, but she did say crews were out trying to get the power restored as quickly as possible. Residents near 8th and Birch, 12th and Chestnut, and the vicinity of Sycamore and Chestnut Streets were in the dark as of 6:45-a.m.

Winds at the time the outages were initially reported, where gusting from 25-to 45-miles per hour. Other utilities were reporting power outages as well:  Southwest Iowa Rural Electric Cooperative reported 119 customers were without power in Adams County (as of 7-a.m.), 28 were without power in Taylor County, and anywhere from 3-to 5 customers were in the dark in Cass and Montgomery Counties; Mid-American Energy reported scattered outages in Griswold, Lewis, Carbon, Red Oak and Villisca.

Officials with the Stuart Police Department issued a somewhat tongue-in-cheek statement on their social media page Tuesday, with regard to a drug bust. Authorities said the Stuart Police Dept. K-9 unit was on a routine traffic stop in the 100 block of N. Adair Street, Tuesday, and that while the officer was speaking with the occupants of the vehicle the driver fled on foot, leaving behind a large quantity of methamphetamine and marijuana.

Kyle Styron (photos from Stuart P-D Facebook page)

Officials said also, “On a side note we would appreciate any information the public is willing to share regarding the location of Kyle Styron. We have some items of his that we would like to speak with him about, but for some reason he has been avoiding us.”

If you know where Styron is, you’re asked to call Stuart Police at 641-747-2214.

Authorities in Montgomery County, Tuesday night, arrested three people in connection with a plot to sell a vehicle for cash at a scrap yard. Officials say 23-year old Amanda Joy Huebner, of Red Oak, faces felony Theft in the 2nd degree charge, after she asked 26-year old Sara Ann Billie and 30-year old Lovelle Joseph Ward, both of Red Oak, to take a 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee to a scrap yard in Omaha, and obtain cash for the vehicle so Huebner could pay some bills. All three suspects knew the SUV did not belong to Huebner.

Instead of taking the vehicle to the scrap yard, Billie and Ward used it for their own personal use. They brought the SUV to the police department after they spoke on the phone with officers. Billie and Ward were arrested for Operating (a vehicle) with the Owners Consent. Their bonds were set at $2,000 each. Huebner’s bond was set at $5,000.

Sheriff’s deputies in Montgomery County early this (Wednesday) morning, arrested a man for Driving While Barred. 42-year old Jerry Lee Dawson, of Hastings, was taken into custody at midnight and brought to the Montgomery County Jail, where he was being held on full bond.