(Creston, Iowa) – The Creston Police Department reports one arrest took place, Tuesday. 18-year-old Ella Jean Hoffman, of Creston, was arrested at around 6-p.m., for Possession of a Controlled Substance Marijuana/1st Offense. Hoffman was cited and released on a Promise to Appear.
(Atlantic, Iowa – As we change the calendar from February to March, the weather records at KJAN show the past month was warm on the plus side, wet, and cold on the low side. The average High for the month was 41 (40.6 degrees). That’s 5.2 degrees warmer than the norm. We received 2.73 inches of precipitation (rain/sleet/melted snow), which was 1.77 inches wetter than the norm of .96 inches. And, the Low averaged out to 15.07 degrees, which was 10 degrees (10.23) colder than average.
The warmest day was February 13th (56-degrees). The coldest days (a 24-hour Low) were on the 16th & 17th, both days coming in at -9 degrees. The snowiest day was February 16th (4.3″).
Here’s what the weather stats for Atlantic normally are, during the month of March:
Class 3A Quarterfinals
Tuesday, March 7th
2:00—#1 Bondurant-Farrar vs. #8 Algona
3:45—#4 Newton vs. #5 North Polk
5:30—#3 Marion vs. #6 Bishop Heelan, Sioux City
7:15—#2 Xavier, Cedar Rapids vs. #7 Des Moines, Hoover
Class 4A Quarterfinals
Wednesday, March 8
10:30—#2 Waukee vs. #7 Ames
12:15—#3 Waukee NW vs. #6 Ankeny Centennial
2:00—#1 Cedar Rapids, Kennedy vs. #8 Pleasant Valley
3:45—#4 Valley, WDM vs. #5 Norwalk
Class 3A Substate Finals
Substate 6 @ Okaloosa: Newton 60, Solon 46
Class 4A Substate Finals
Substate 1 @ Denison: Norwalk 64, Sioux City East 58
Substate 2 @ Marshalltown: Ankeny Centennial 54, Cedar Falls 47
Substate 3 @ Central DeWitt: Pleasant Valley 54, Dubuque Senior 51
Substate 4 @ Iowa City West: Cedar Rapids Kennedy 76, North Scott 48
Substate 5 @ Marshalltown: Valley 66, Waterloo West 41
Substate 6 @ Nevada: Ames 67, Linn-Mar 49
Substate 7 @ Dowling Catholic: Waukee Northwest 73, Des Moines Roosevelt 62
Substate 8 @ Hoover High School: Waukee 49, Dallas Center-Grimes 38
(Radio Iowa) – Students from Northwestern College in Orange City are heading out this week for spring break — but their trips are working mission trips — not a chance to sit on a beach and soak up the sun. Northwestern director of admissions, Patrick Hummel says they 13 trips planned this year including four international trips Hummel says all the students volunteer for the trips and about 43 percent of graduates do a spring trip. He says students are working to help others and they benefit from being in places that are culturally different from their own and where they grew up.
He says students join teams and aren’t necessarily paired up with friends, so they get the added benefit of developing new friends on campus — and he says it connects them in new ways and in different ways.
(Radio Iowa) – After years of flood recovery efforts, a southwest Iowa group is shifting its focus to disaster preparedness. The Fremont County Disaster Coalition, previously known as the Fremont County Long Term Disaster Recovery Group, will meet this weekend. The group was formed after the 2019 Missouri River floods that devastated the region. Coalition secretary Mandy Maher says the meeting will highlight the group’s accomplishments and lay groundwork for the future.
Since the 2019 floods, the group has distributed nearly 240-thousand dollars in financial assistance and helped coordinate other goods and services to aid the 240-some households in the county impacted by the floods. The group is looking to disaster preparedness, as Maher says trouble is always lurking around the corner, whether it’s a tornado, a fire, a flood or a derecho.
The race for seeding in next week’s Big 12 Tournament is underway for the 23rd ranked Iowa State women as they get ready for tomorrow night’s game at Kansas. The Cyclones enter the final week of the regular season tied for third with Oklahoma State.
That’s Cyclone coach Bill Fennelly who says without a truly dominant team the league tournament will be wide open.
Kansas enters the game with a 7-9 Big 12 record.
ISU is 10-6 in the Big 12.
Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson says improvement on defense will be the key to a deep run in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. The Panthers are the eighth seed and open Thursday afternoon against ninth seeded Illinois State. UNI lost eight of nine to close the regular season and defensive breakdowns were a major factor.
Jacobson says defense will be the focus heading into the tournament.
Jacobson says there are areas the Panthers have made strides despite their struggles.
UNI finished the regular season 13-17.
Iowa junior Caitlin Clark has been named the Big Ten Player of the Year. It is the second straight season Clark has won the award and it has gone to an Iowa player five times in the past six years.
That’s Iowa coach Lisa Bluder. Clark is averaging better than 27 points, eight rebounds and nearly seven and a half assists.
The seventh ranked Hawkeyes are the second seed in the Big Ten Tournament in the Twin Cities and open Friday night against the winner of Thursday’s game between Purdue and Wisconsin.
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