(Radio Iowa) – There is an in-state softball contest in Cedar Falls Wednesday when Northern Iowa hosts Iowa State. The Cyclones are 23-11 overall and beat the Panthers 12-2 back in early February. UNI coach Ryan Jacobs.
Jacobs says the Cyclones are good in all phases.
UNI is 15-13.
(Radio Iowa) – Northern Iowa football coach Mark Farley says bouncing back from having a game canceled is tougher than rebounding from a loss. The Panthers had last Friday’s game at South Dakota canceled and will close out their spring season at home on Saturday against second ranked North Dakota State.
Farley says it is frustrating for everyone involved.
Farley says that is just part of what has been a series of difficult things to deal with.
With so many games being made up Farley says there are no options to make up a game next week.
UNI is 3-3.
Sheriff’s officials in Mills County, Tuesday, reported four arrests occurred Monday. 40-year-old Kale Garret Hardman, of Malvern, was arrested on warrants for Failure to Appear, Theft in the 2nd Degree, and Fugitive from Justice. He was taken into custody at around 11-p.m. and held on $15,000 bond. Monday evening, 49-year-old Dennis Harold Bjorgaard II, of Fremont, NE., was arrested at the Douglas County, NE., Jail, on warrants for two counts of a Controlled Substance Violation, Failure to Affix a Drug Tax Stamp, and Unlawful Possession of Prescription Drugs. His bond was set at $41,000.
Monday afternoon, 35-year-old Jaymie Ilene Rowe, of Hastings, was arrested at the Page County Jail, on a warrant for Criminal Mischief in the 4th Degree, and Trespass. Her bond was set at $2,000. And, 19-year old Alexia Dianne Alvarez, of Omaha, was arrested at around 2:50-a.m. Monday, in Mills County, for Possession of Controlled Substance. Her bond was set at $1,000.
The Cass County Board of Supervisors, during their meeting Tuesday morning, voted to appoint Mike Kennon to the Cass County Judicial Magistrate Appointing Commission. His term will expire Dec. 31, 2026. Kennon is the County’s Emergency Management Coordinator. The Supervisors are still looking to fill some positions on the Cass County Zoning Board. There are three seats open on the Zoning Board, and one position open on the Board of Adjustment. Supervisors’ Board Chair Steve Baier said he has some people who have verbally committed to joining the Commission. They simply need to turn in their paperwork for Board approval.
Baier said the Boards don’t meet that often, so it shouldn’t be too much of a burden on your time, if you are interested.
Auditor Dale Sunderman noted the Board of Adjustment position must be filled by a rural county resident. In other business, the Supervisors received a report from County Engineer Trent Wolken, who said the Secondary Roads Department is busy hauling contract rock. He reported also, there are two bridges on dirt roads in Cass County that are currently closed.
One bridge, on Fairview road (northwest of Atlantic, just west of Highway173), has a six-ton rating. Wolken said it was ordered closed after a State inspection last week detected some structural issues with the trusses.
Wolken was of the opinion that the damage was incurred by vehicles violating the posted weight limit. The second bridge, which is rated for 18-tons, is on 760th, 1.5-miles east of Massena. Last weekend, he said a farmer doing tillage work crossed the bridge with his tilling equipment in the lowered position. The Pony Truss bridge was damaged, and needs to have the wooden deck replaced. The structural steel was not damaged. The deck will be replaced with either wood, or corrugated steel topped by dirt.
The farmer has been contacted and is aware of their liability in the matter. Wolken said also, they are conducting interviews to fill four Secondary Roads Dept. positions. The interview process began last week. He’s offered an Operator 3 Excavator position to one of the applicants, and that person accepted. He hopes to have a recommendation for appointments by the time the Board meets next week.
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The Iowa Department of Public Health’s Coronavirus dashboard, Tuesday (today), showed there no additional deaths to report from the previous 24-hours, and for the second day in a row. The pandemic toll remains at 5,822. There were 614 additional positive test results for COVID-19 returned from the labs, for a total of 382,540. Long-Term Care facility deaths account for 2,279 of the total number of deaths across the state.
There remain two Long-Term Care facility outbreaks, with 19 positive cases among residents and staff within those facilities, two more than the past few days. Health officials say COVID-related hospitalizations rose from 201 to 217. There are 53 COVID patients in an ICU, compared to 47 on Monday. Health officials say 28 people were admitted to a hospital across the state, which is a decline of 34 from the previous day, and 27 patients are on a ventilator (4 more than on Monday).
RMCC Region 4 hospitals (those in western/southwest Iowa) show: There are 21 hospitalized with COVID; 15 COVID patients are in an ICU; five people were admitted with symptoms of COVID, and there are three COVID patients on a ventilator. The 14-day positivity rate is unchanged at 4.9%. The seven-day rate increased slightly, from 5.1% to 5.2%.
In the KJAN listening area, here are the current number positive cases by County; The # of new cases since yesterday {+} – if any; and the total number of deaths in each county to date:
The Adair County Board of Supervisors will hold an electronic meeting beginning at 9-a.m., Wednesday. The public will not be allowed in the Boardroom at the Courthouse in Greenfield, because, officials say, social distancing guidelines cannot be followed. The session will be conducted by dial-up (call 605-313-6157, and when prompted, use access code 526272#). On their agenda, is the presentation of a contract for the mowing of the Grove Cemetery, followed by updates and discussion, with regard to COVID-19.
At around 9:15-a.m., the Adair County Supervisors will hear from Fair Board members Joe Herr and Curt Mikkelson, with regard to alcohol at the County Fair. And, at around 9:30-a.m., they’ll hear from Sheriff Jeff Vandewater, with regard to a new vehicle purchase/Trade-in.
A man from Missouri was arrested Monday evening in Clarinda, for allegedly passing counterfeit U-S currency. Clarinda Police Chief Keith Brothers reports 32-year-old Max William Shafer IV, of Maryville, MO., was arrested in the 200 block of W. Main Street in Clarinda, at around 7-p.m. He allegedly passed the fake money at various local businesses from April 3rd through the 5th.
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Shafer was arrested without incident and held in the Page County Jail on $15,000 bond. An investigation into the incidents continues. Reports have been forwarded to the Page County Attorney’s Office for review, and the filing of formal charges. Reports were also sent to the United States Secret Service, for their review.
The Atlantic Police Department reports two arrests took place Sunday: 40-year-old Daniel Murphy, of Atlantic, was arrested for OWI/1st offense. And, 33-year-old Kayla Millam, of Atlantic, was arrested for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Unlawful Possession of Prescription Drugs, and Driving While License Denied or Revoked. Murphy and Millam were booked into the Cass County Jail and later released.
On April 3rd, 51-year-old Janice Lewis, of Atlantic, was cited into court for Driving While License is Barred, and on the 2nd, 35-year old Payton Watzke, of Audubon, was cited into court on the same offense. Both were released at the scene.
(Radio Iowa) – A very small insect is causing big trouble in Iowa’s soybean fields and it’s spreading quickly across the continent. The soybean cyst nematode, or S-C-N, is being tracked in a survey throughout the United States and Canada every few years. S-C-N Coalition co-leader and Iowa State University Extension plant pathologist Greg Tylka says the destructive bug has traveled far since 2017. “There are 55 new counties with SCN in 11 different states in the U.S.,” Tylka says, “and then also they found SCN in a bunch of new counties in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba.”
As odd as it may sound, he says the most common way they believe the tiny bugs are being transported from field to field and from farm to farm is by the wind, specifically in blowing dirt. “The SCN female, which fills up with a couple hundred eggs and eventually dies — a dead female full of eggs is called a cyst — that cyst is about the size of a period at the end of a printed sentence in a book or in the newspaper,” Tylka says. “It’s tiny and it very easily can be in soil particles that are blown.” The soybean cyst nematode causes a lot of costly damage.
“Even a moderately low level of SCN is probably going to take two-to-five bushels per acre out of the yield,” Tylka says. “We have scenarios in Iowa where we’ve documented 22-to-25 bushels per acre yield loss. There is a lot of money being left in the field due to the SCN.”
Tylka says another reason there’s been more detection of S-C-N is that his coalition is encouraging producers to do more sample testing. He says one way to get a handle on the insect is by properly rotating crops.
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