(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Atlantic City Council, Wednesday evening, welcomed the City’s newest Police Officer and his family. Nicholas Wimmer was sworn-in with the Oath of Office from Mayor Grace Garrett. Afterward, he spoke about his background and family. Officer Wimmer has two young girls. He and his wife Jamie have been married for nine-years. They moved to the area from Council Bluffs.

Officer Wimmer said his wife sent him a link to the Atlantic P-D job opening. The couple purchased a house in Elk Horn (Iowa), and moved-in Tuesday.

Newly sworn-in Atlantic Police Officer Nicholas Wimmer is congratulated by Mayor Grace Garrett.

Joining his wife and kids in the audience, Wednesday evening, was his mother, father, grandmother and great-great grandmother.

Police Chief Devin Houge said there remains one more position to be filled on the police force before he has a full complement of Officers.

(Breda, IA April 21, 2022) – In early 2021, Western Iowa Networks (WIN) announced fiber optic construction projects as part of a public-private partnership with Mills County. WIN and Mills County have teamed up once again to expand fiber optics even further in Mills County. An area just north of Glenwood has been mapped out which includes portions of Ellington & Gaston Avenues as well as 230th & 237th Streets and an area along and just east of 221st Street (s outlined in red on the map below.)

WIN CEO Jeff Roiland stated, “We are very happy to be working with Mills County again on this particular project that will make fiber available to almost 230 additional Mills County homes.” Roiland added “What we have been able to accomplish through this partnership is truly extraordinary and is a huge benefit to the residents of Mills County. The vision of the County Supervisors to see what this will do for their home and business owners in building towards the future is quite remarkable.”

Construction will be wrapping up in the Loess Hills fiberhood project this summer and the crews will then transition to begin construction in the Glenwood North fiberhood. Once a more accurate timeline is available, it will be posted on the Status of Fiberhoods page here https://fiber.westianet.com/mills-county-map/. This network will bring fiber internet with speeds of 100Gbps, 500Gbps and 1Gbps as well as Phone to residents in this area. WIN will be offering construction of a fiber drop to the home at no cost as well as free installation to everyone who signs up for services before the network construction is complete.

Mills County Supervisor Lonnie Mayberry stated “Mills County and Western Iowa Networks started our partnership a few years ago when we worked together on our Broadband Study. Since then, the partnership has grown exponentially. Mills County assisted in helping WIN acquire several grants to install fiber throughout the entire unincorporated part of the county.” Mayberry added “This will help the residents of Mills County both now and into the future. They’re a great company to work with and the staff and support is top notch. I can’t recommend them enough.”

Residents and businesses in any of the service area can sign up for fiber optic services online at www.westianet.com, by calling or texting 712-775-2946 or by calling toll-free at 888-508-2946.

CLIVE, Iowa — A southwest Iowa man woke up his wife to tell her he’d won a big Powerball prize, but neither of them realized it was $100,000. “She was still sleeping,”

Cody Marsh

Cody Marsh said he woke his wife Kylee up, and told her he thought he had won $20,000.” He says “She thought I was joking with her. It took us an hour to realize we’d won $100,000.” Marsh, 37, of Red Oak, matched four of five white balls and the Powerball in Monday’s drawing. He was one number away from winning that night’s $352.5 million jackpot.

Marsh bought his winning easy-pick ticket at Casey’s, 201 N. Broadway in Red Oak. He said he buys a Powerball ticket every now and then, but only when the jackpot is elevated. “The guy in front of me was buying some scratch-off tickets and reminded me nobody won the Powerball this last round,” Marsh said. “I ended up buying another two tickets.”

He checked his numbers the morning after the drawing. The more numbers he matched, the more excited he became. But it wasn’t until later, when he scanned the ticket with the Iowa Lottery mobile app, that he realized the size of his prize. “I was shaking. I was like, ‘Holy cow!'” he said. “I’ve got a few home projects that I’ve been working on saving up some money for and this will help out quite a bit. It’ll be really nice.”

Marsh’s initial $50,000 prize was doubled because he opted for the $1 Power Play^® add-on, which multiples non-jackpot prize amounts by up to 10 times. He claimed his prize Tuesday at lottery headquarters in Clive.

The winning numbers in Monday’s drawing were 8-33-55-59-62 and Powerball 18. The Power Play was 2.

Update 4/21/22: The Powerball jackpot remains unclaimed. The top prize for the next drawing Saturday, April 23^rd, is $400-million.

Atlantic, IA, April 20, 2022 – TS Bank recently donated $3,000 to SHIFT ATL, a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Atlantic, Iowa, as part of its newest initiative of launching community murals as economic development tools. Locally, community murals and other art initiatives encourage a sense of excitement among community members and promote reinvestment in downtown areas.

Established in July 2019, SHIFT ATL has a mission to revitalize Atlantic through projects, services and programs that will enhance the community and foster a sense of social and economic development and growth. Since its inception, TS Bank has donated over $7,000 to SHIFT ATL walking alongside the organization while supporting their various development initiatives.

“Having access to guidance and support from an institution that really understands nonprofits has been immensely beneficial to our organization,” said board member, Alexsis Fleener. “Working through our various financial needs, while having someone available to ask questions of, allows us to know we are being the best stewards of the donations we’re receiving, and in return, our community.”

SHIFT ATL has recently completed an extensive interior renovation of The Telegraph building at 14 E. 4^th Street in Atlantic, creating a fully functioning two-bedroom, one-bathroom Airbnb on the upper story and a commercial space on the lower level. Currently the lower level is utilized as a pop-up space for businesses to explore their ideas while they look for a full-time commercial resident. This spring and summer SHIFT ATL is finishing the exterior tuck-pointing, skim coating, patio installation, stonework and adding a new awning to the building.

Most recently, SHIFT ATL is working with Liz Lidgett Gallery + Design out of Des Moines, IA, to commission the community mural piece at The Telegraph building. They had nine artists respond to their mural request for proposal in late 2021.  Due to overwhelming community and artists’ response, the organization decided to commission two murals for The Telegraph building that will serve as artistic representations of what Atlantic embodies where the community is headed.

“As soon as we bought The Telegraph building, we knew it would be the perfect project to include some type of art and quality-of-place creative piece,” said SHIFT ATL board member, Jessie Shiels. “The concept of an ‘Instagram-worthy’ mural in our community generated a lot of excitement, and now that we’re able to put up two of these murals in Atlantic is a major bonus.”

The patio space and murals are slated to be completed and unveiled before SHIFT ATL’s summer fundraiser, Summer Soiree, on Saturday, July 16. Shiels added, “To be able to see Atlantic visualized into a piece of art is a really cool experience, and we cannot wait to share this with the Atlantic community members and our visitors.”

Additionally, this Saturday SHIFT ATL is hosting a pop up shop from 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. To learn more about SHIFT ATL, visit shiftatl.org or at facebook.com/shiftatl.

(Radio Iowa) – Home sales in Iowa held steady last month, while national data shows there was a decline of two-point-seven percent in sales of existing U.S. homes. Robin Anderson is the chief economist for the State of Iowa. “So in some ways we’re maybe doing a little bit better in terms of sales.” But Anderson says the lack of supply is a big constraint on the housing market. “Very low inventories and those are pretty comparable nationally and in Iowa,” Anderson says. According to the Iowa Association of Realtors, there were nearly 14-and-a-half percent fewer Iowa homes for sale in March compared to the same month last year. The median price for an Iowa home sold last month was over 203-thousand dollars. That compares to 180-thousand in March of last year.

“Home prices are up and they’re up pretty dramatically,” Anderson says, “but there are other pockets of the nation that have very high home prices,” Anderson points to hot spots like Austin, Texas, where appraisals are up 56 percent since last year. The Iowa Association of Realtors reports Iowa homes are selling 20 percent faster this spring, averaging about 43 days on the market. Anderson says the rate on a 30-year mortgage is about five percent now and as rates rise, that may lead to a decline in home sales. “But I do think the really constraining supply is going to basically constrain how far home prices go down,” Anderson says. “I would not expect a sharp downturn in prices because we really don’t have a lot of supply on the market.”

About 85-hundred single family homes were sold in Iowa during the first three months of this year. That’s a nearly three-and-a-half percent decline from the first quarter of 2021, partially driven by the historically low number of home listings in January. Iowa home sales in the month of March alone were up just under one percent compared to March of last year.

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Trevor Frederickson Memorial Fund has donated $500 to the Kiwanis bike helmet project.  Fund spokesperson Melanie Petty said “We have teamed up with the Kiwanis on this project for years because it holds a special place in our hearts”. Trevor was one of the first recipients of a bike helmet when they started this program.  Petty says “What an amazing gift they have provided 3rd graders over the years!”

All of the money raised during the fund’s annual TFred Golf Tournament, are returned back to the community that Trevor loved for the things that were important to him.  This year’s 14th Annual TFred Memorial Golf Tournament is just two short months away.  It will be held Saturday, June 18th at the Atlantic Golf and Country Club.

The Frederickson Fund’s Grant Petty and Deb Schuler w/the Kiwanis.

Although the tournament is full, Petty says they are still taking donations for our silent auction.  Food will be served throughout the day so stop by to bid on the large array of auction items, have some lunch.

The Glenwood Police Department reports 23-year-old Jordan Salmons, of Glenwood, was arrested Tuesday. Salmons was arrested on a Mills County warrant for numerous charges. He was being held in the Mills County Jail without bond until seen by a magistrate judge.

(Radio Iowa) – A Dubuque veterinarian is waiting for her sentencing after pleading guilty to writing fake prescriptions to obtain drugs at local pharmacies. Forty-two-year-old Kristi Schreiber admitted to writing prescriptions for fake dogs to obtain Tramadol. It is a medication that veterinarians commonly prescribe to manage pain in dogs, and it is one of the few human painkillers that is safe to administer to dogs.

Court information says Schreiber first said the prescriptions were for animals of friends — but later admitted she took all the Tramadol herself. The investigation revealed she wrote 266 prescriptions for animals in a two-year period and 186 were for Tramadol.