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FOR SALE: A hardly used wheelchair. In good condition. Call 402-658-8073.
PAUL E. LUDWIG, 88, of Casey, died Friday, May 17, 2024 at New Homestead in Guthrie Center. A Mass of Christian Burial for PAUL LUDWIG will be held 2-p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2024, at St. John’s Catholic Church in Adair. Schmidt Family Funeral Home of Adair has the arrangements.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, from 1-until 2-p.m., at St. John’s Catholic Church in Adair.
Burial will follow at the St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery in Casey.
Memorial Contributions may be directed to the family for future designation and may be sent in care of Schmidt Family Funeral Home P.O. Box 523 Atlantic, Iowa 50022.
Jim Field visits with Steve Pelzer about a benefit for the Dan Daugherty family on Saturday, June 1, 2024 at the Cumberland Community Building. The event will begin with social time at 4:00 pm, a free-will offering meal at 4:30, followed by a live auction at 6:30. Donations can also be made through Venmo (Daugherty Benefit) or at FNB Bank in Massena.
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(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports five recent arrests. Two people were arrested on drug charges: 28-year-old Blake Alan McDole, of Creston, was arrested Friday for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Possession of a Controlled Substance/Marijuana – 1st offense. McDole was later released on a $1,300 bond. And, 19-year-old Zai Land Amarion Glover, of Johnston, was arrested Sunday night for PCS/Marijuana – 1st offense. Glover was released on a $1,000 bond.
Two people were arrested on an OWI charge this past week, in Creston: 71-year-old Charles Thomas Franklin Brown, of Creston, was arrested for OWI/1st offense at around 1:47-a.m., Saturday. And, 38-year-old Dulce Estrella Pantoja, of Lenox, was arrested for OWI/1st offense. Bonds for both individuals was set at $1,000.
And, last Thursday evening, Creston Police arrested 40-year-old Abel Olivera Martinez, of Creston, at his residence. Martinez was arrested for Domestic Abuse Assault [on a] Resident Household Member. He was taken to the Union County Jail and later released on a $1,000 bond.
DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG) – A Dubuque Police Officer was arrested late last week on assault and harassment charges. KCRG reports 27-year-old Tyler Breitbach was arrested on multiple domestic abuse charges on Friday morning. Breitbach, of Peosta, is facing two counts of domestic assault and one count of third-degree harassment.
Court documents show a woman Breitbach had dated and lived with reported that he assaulted her twice in the summer of 2023. In the first incident, the woman described that in June 2023, the two were driving home on Swiss Valley Road, when Breitbach had “gotten upset and swung his arm out at her, striking her in the face with an open hand causing pain and leaving injury.”
In a second incident, documents say the woman was visiting an ex-boyfriend in July 2023. The woman says Breitbach arrived, and when she opened the door, he “used an extended arm to push her to the side and into the wall as he barged his way past her,” which she says forced her back into the wall, causing pain.
According to a report from the Telegraph Herald, City of Dubuque Public Information Officer Randy Gehl said the report came to light during the city’s annual review of harassment and reporting policies. The documents show Breitbach was interviewed in April 2024, and denied any physical contact with the woman, saying the relationship was “toxic but never physical.”
DUBUQUE COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) – The Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a man was found dead underneath a tractor Sunday evening. The sheriff’s office says emergency crews responded to the area of Wente Road and Pape Road north of Dyersville at 8:14 p.m. for a report of a tractor rollover with a person trapped. When crews arrived, they found a 61-year-old man dead underneath the tractor. The man has not been identified.
The Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office says more information will be released after family members are notified. The Dubuque County Sheriff’s Office, Iowa State Patrol, Dyersville Police Department, New Vienna-Luxemburg Fire Department, and Bi-County EMS responded to the scene.
(Red Oak, Iowa) – Red Oak Police Chief Justin Rhamy reports his officers are teaming-up with Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputies and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau (GTSB), to ensure drivers are buckled-up as they travel roads in Montgomery County. The “Click It or Ticket” traffic safety campaign is underway now through June 1st.
Authorities note, that as of May 18th, there had been 56 fatalities on Iowa’s roads that involved a vehicle with seat belts. HALF of the motorists in those accidents were NOT wearing their seat belts.
The Red Oak Police Department wants to remind everyone of these simple things:
Chief Rhamy and the Red Oak P-D would like to remind you to “Click It or Ticket” during this public safety campaign and each time you get behind the wheel.
(Radio Iowa) – Iowa’s spring turkey hunting season wrapped up with a record harvest of just more than 16-thousand birds, topping the record set last season by around 12-hundred. D-N-R Wildlife Research Biologist Jim Coffey says the records are one good thing to come from the dry weather. “We’ve had three good years of back to back hatches, and then just some exceptional weather that just made for good turkey hunting conditions,” he says. The weather allowed more young turkeys to survive after hatching. “Typically cold wet weather is not good for ground nesting birds so drought conditions we tend to see a bump up in production,” Coffey says. “It can be too dry as you get farther west that can have an impact, but we kind of hit the sweet spot the last few years.”
He says more hunters chase the elusive wild turkeys. “So success rate right now will probably be about the same and that 25 percent category, but we did see an increase in license sales as well. And that’s usually an indication of people noticing more birds on the landscape or more game to chase,” he says. “And so we always usually see a little bit of an uptick in hunter numbers when we see an uptick in populations.” Coffey says bagging a wild turkey is one of the tougher challenges. “They can be very difficult, they’re very weary they’ve got great eyesight and great hearing and they don’t give you a lot of room for error if you’re a new inexperienced hunter and even a seasoned hunter that Turkey is a difficult query to get after,” Coffey says.
Coffey says the turkey numbers could be strong again next season. “This year with extreme rain we’re having will probably you know speculating see a downturn in the population. But we have to remember that it’s usually the two year old birds are what carry the numbers,” he says. “And so next year is birds will really be the ones that were hatched last year and 2023. So we should have good turkey numbers for another year or two depending on how the weather lays out the next couple of years.”
Coffey says wild turkeys won’t be the same as the ones you buy at the grocery store. “They’re a little drier because they don’t have the fat that a domestic bird does. And of course domestic birds are bred for that delicious taste and that moist moisture content,” Coffey says. “We have to remember that most domestic birds are less than six months old. And most of the males that we’re harvesting in the field of the wild, they’re probably two years old. So kind of think of a fit athlete. The muscle is a little tighter, a little more structure to it, and not as much fat in it.”
Hunters report taking turkeys in all 99 counties — with a high of 649 birds bagged in Clayton County to a low of three in Osceola County.
(Radio Iowa) – We’re just past the halfway point for Iowa’s tornado season, and while twisters can strike during any month of the year, April, May and June are considered the three prime months for tornadic activity. Meteorologist Mike Fowle, at the National Weather Service in Johnston, says it’s been a very active season so far. “Our preliminary numbers suggest we have seen 43 tornadoes,” Fowle says. “Interestingly enough, all of those have occurred in the month of April. We are still investigating some reports back from our previous events, say from April 26th, we’re still investigating so it’s possible we could still add a tornado or two from some of these events.” While the tornado tally doesn’t set an Iowa record, Fowle says it -is- an impressive number.
“For 43 tornadoes for a month, that’s pretty darn high,” Fowle says. “We go back generally to about 1950 and forward as our more accurate trend of record, so that would have been the fourth highest number of tornadoes we’ve seen in any month, the highest being May of 2004 with 57.” We do live in tornado alley and some years they’re plentiful, while we’re spared in others. “In 2023, we had a total for the whole year in the state of Iowa of 72, while in 2022, we only had 42 for the entire year, so we obviously surpassed that in one month this year,” Fowle says, “and then if we go back even just one more year to 2021, we had a total of 114 tornadoes.”
The bulk of the 2021 tornadoes occurred on December 15th of that year, in a highly unusual late year outbreak. There were 63 tornadoes in Iowa that day, along with the first-ever December derecho anywhere in the U-S.
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