(Greenfield, Iowa) – The Adair County Auditor’s Office reports a public test of Adair County’s voter equipment to be used in the November 7, 2023 Combined City/School Election will commence at 12 (noon) p.m. on Saturday November 4, 2023 in the Adair County Courthouse and will continue until completed. The public is invited to attend. For further information, please contact the county auditor’s office at the telephone or E-mail address listed below.
NOTICE OF CITY/SCHOOL ELECTION
All the qualified Electors of Adair County, Iowa are hereby notified that a Combined City/School Election will be held on Tuesday, November 7, 2023.
ALL POLLS IN ADAIR COUNTY OPEN AT 7:00 A.M. AND WILL CLOSE AT 8:00 P.M.
VOTERS MUST VOTE IN THEIR PRECINCT OF RESIDENCE
Polling places:
Precinct For voters residing in Polling Place
1NW Cities of Adair and Casey; Summit, Walnut, Prussia, Eureka TWP; **Adair Community Center
Section 6 of Lee TWP except the SE SE; Jefferson TWP west 308 Stuart St
of Hwy 25 & sections 4 & 5; Grove TWP west of Hwy 25 Adair, IA
2NE City of Stuart; Lincoln, Harrison, Grand River TWP; Jefferson Stuart Recreational Center
TWP east of Hwy 25 except sections 4 & 5; Grove TWP east 323 SW 2nd St
of Hwy 25 Stuart, IA
3SW Cities of Bridgewater and Fontanelle; Jackson, Summerset, Fontanelle Community Building
Washington, Richland TWP 224 3rd St
Fontanelle, IA
4SE City of Orient; Union, Orient TWP; All of Lee TWP except section Orient United Methodist Church
6 and portions of section 7 and portions of section 18 as described 124 S Maple St
below as precinct 5GF. Orient, IA
5GF Lee TWP Section 6 SE SE; Lee TWP Section 7 except residences Adair County Health & Fitness Center
south of SW Kent St (92) and W of S 1st St and except blocks south 202 N Townline Rd
of SE Kent St (92) and north of SE Mills St and East of SE 5th St; Greenfield, IA
Lee TWP NE¼ Section 18 except residences West of SE 1st St and
North of SW Pine St
** 1NW Polling location has changed to the Adair Community Center from the City Hall.
Secretary of State polling place locator – https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/voterreg/pollingplace/search.aspx
Adair County GIS map – https://beacon.schneidercorp.com/Application.aspx?AppID=1034&LayerID=22042&PageTypeID=1&PageID=9426

Pre-registered voters are required to provide an approved form of identification at the polling place before receiving and casting a regular ballot. Voters who are not pre-registered-such as voters registering to vote on Election Day-and voters changing precincts must also provide proof of residence. A voter who is unable to provide an approved form of identification (or prove residence if required) may have voter’s identity/residence attested to by another registered voter in the precinct, prove identity and residence using Election Day Registration documents, or cast a provisional ballot and provide proof of identity/residence at the County Auditor’s office by November 14, 2023 at Noon. Election Day Registrant attesters must provide an approved form of identification. For additional information about providing proof of identity and/or residence visit: https://sos.iowa.gov/voterID or phone 641-743-2546.

Voter pre-registration deadline is 5:00 P.M. October 23, 2023 at the Adair County Auditor’s office.

Absentee ballots are available in the County Auditor’s office during regular business hours, until the day before the election, November 6th, 2023
Any voter who is physically unable to enter a polling place has the right to vote in the voter’s vehicle. For further information, please contact the County Auditor’s office at the telephone number or e-mail address listed below.

Telephone: 641-743-2546 E-mail address: auditor@adaircountyiowa.org

Adair-Casey Community School District
Public Measure AA
Shall the following Public Measure Be Adopted?
Summary: To adopt a Revenue Purpose Statement specifying the use of revenues the Adair-Casey Community School District will receive from the State of Iowa Secure an Advanced Vision for Education Fund.
In the Adair-Casey Community School District, the following Revenue Purpose Statement which specifies the use of revenues the Adair-Casey Community School District will receive from the State of Iowa Secure an Advanced Vision for Education Fund shall be adopted.
To provide funds to acquire or install information technology infrastructure (including improving buildings or sites for the purpose of accessing broadband digital telecommunications) and school
safety and security infrastructure.
To provide funds to build and furnish a new school building or buildings; to build and furnish addition(s) to school buildings in the District; to remodel, reconstruct, repair, expand, and improve the school buildings in the District; to purchase and improve grounds; for demolition work; to furnish and equip district facilities.
To provide funds for the purchase, lease or lease-purchase of buildings, equipment (including transportation and recreation equipment), or technology and to repair transportation equipment for transporting students as authorized by law, to implement energy conservation measures, sharing or rental of facilities including a joint infrastructure project for the purposes of offering classes under district-to-community college programs as authorized in Iowa Code Section 423F.3(3)(c), procuring or acquisition of libraries, or opening roads to schoolhouses or buildings.
To provide funds to purchase land as part of start-up costs for new student construction program or if the sale of the previous student construction was insufficient to purchase land, and to purchase construction materials and supplies for a student-constructed building or shed intended to be retained by and used by the District.
To provide funds to make payments to a municipality or other entity as required under Iowa Code Section 403.19(2).
To provide funds for demolition, cleanup, and other costs if such costs are necessitated by, and incurred within two years of, a disaster.
To provide funds to establish and maintain public recreation places and playgrounds; provide for supervision and instruction for recreational activities; or for community education purposes.
To provide funds for the payment of principal and interest or retirement of general obligation bonds issued for school infrastructure purposes, energy improvement loans, loan agreements authorized by Iowa Code Section 297.36, sales, service and use tax revenue bonds issued under Iowa Code Section 423E.5 or Iowa Code Section 423F.4.
To provide funds for property tax relief; and
To provide funds for other authorized expenditures and purposes as now or hereafter permitted by law and designated by the Adair-Casey Community School District.
It being understood that if this proposition should fail to be approved by the voters, such failure shall not be construed to terminate or restrict authority previously granted by the voters to expend receipts from the Secure an Advanced Vision for Education Fund.
If approved, this Revenue Purpose Statement shall remain in effect until replaced or amended by the Adair-Casey Community School District.
The Adair-Casey School District requests that this following statement be included:
“If a majority of eligible electors voting on the question fail to approve this Revenue Purpose Statement, then upon expiration of the current Revenue Purpose Statement, revenues received by the School District from the Secure an Advanced Vision for Education fund shall be expended in the following order:
The payment of bonds for which SAVE Revenue has been pledged;
Reduction of bond levies under Iowa Code Sections 298.18 and 298.18A and all other debt levies;
Reduction of the regular and voter-approved physical plant and equipment levy under Iowa Code Section 298.2;
Reduction of the public educational and recreational levy under Iowa Code Section 300.2;
For any authorized infrastructure purpose of the school district as defined in Iowa Code Section 423F.3(6); and For the payment of principal and interest on bonds issued under Iowa Code Sections 423E.5 and 423F.4.”

ADAIR COUNTY, Iowa — (KCCI) A massive fire destroyed a wind turbine and burned a large farm field in Adair County Tuesday morning. The fire burned so hot it destroyed the 22-story tall structure. It consumed the nacelle that holds the generator and one giant blade, which crashed to the ground in flames. The fire eventually spread to the cornfields below. That created a giant plume of smoke that spread north toward Interstate 80. The smoke was visible for miles.

Emergency crews from Adair and surrounding towns couldn’t do much but watch the fire. They had no equipment to reach the top of the wind turbine. Officials say it’s lucky that the field was freshly plowed, and that stopped the fire spreading too far. Adair County emergency manager Robert Kempf said it was fortunate the field had already been harvested, so  no crops were lost.

MidAmerican Energy says it doesn’t have a cause for the fire, but it is investigating.

(Radio Iowa) – The calendar says we’re in the middle of autumn but it’s now wintertime, at least according to the Iowa Department of Transportation. Craig Bargfrede, the D-O-T’s winter operations administrator, says they’ve been planning for the cold weather driving season for months, and they are prepped for winter every year by October 15th, which was this past Sunday. “From a material standpoint, we’re sitting in a very good position statewide about at 104% of capacity, which is about 253,000 tons of salt stored in the garages all spread across the state,” Bargfrede says. “We have 101 garages across the state and a few offsite locations that the salt is stored in.” D-O-T staffers are staying in good practice and Bargfrede says they’re ready for that first snowfall.

“Training has been underway,” he says. “Each fall, we do hands-on training with the field staff. We have a driving simulator that our field staff take a two-hour course, kind of a refresher course, for the most part.” While October 15th may seem a bit early for winter conditions to set it, Bargfrede says the D-O-T never wants to be caught unprepared.

“Our staff start reporting winter road conditions on 511,” he says. “They start prepping, finalizing equipment prep, calibration on our equipment. There’s a litany of tasks that they have to do and complete and have ready to go around that October 15 timeframe.” The D-O-T is looking for more snowplow operators, especially if you’re C-D-L certified. Call your nearest D-O-T garage for more information, or visit Iowa D-O-T-dot-gov-slash-careers. (iowadot.gov/careers)

(Radio Iowa) – Residents of four Iowa counties may notice there are no red lights now blinking in the night sky. MidAmerican energy spokesman Geoff Greenwood says the company is testing a new radar system where the lights on some 200 wind turbines in Adair, Audubon, Cass and Guthrie counties are only on when needed.”The lights are off all the time, unless our system detects an aircraft in the area within about three miles of the wind farm. And so this system, we expect will reduce nighttime lighting by at least 95 percent. So it’s going to be a dramatic drop in nighttime lighting,” Greenwood says.

He says the commercial jets that regularly fly over Iowa at high altitudes would not set off the system. Greenwood says warning lights have been on top of wind turbines since they started putting them up.”Anything that’s a few 100 feet up into the air, if the F-A-A requires warning lights so pilots know that there is an obstruction in the area,” he explains. “So as you drive in rural Iowa at night, you’ll notice all these red flashing lights.”

He says they just recently started testing the system for the Eclipse the Morning Light wind farms in the four counties.”Area residents would have noticed that the lights were off and probably wondered what’s going on here,” he says. “Well, that’s what’s going on is we’re testing this new system. And we expect that from here on out the lights should be off most of the time at these three wind farms during nighttime hours.” Greenwood says they are looking for input on the change from residents and pilots. “We know the F-A-A has signed off on this and believes it’s safe, we’re confident it’s safe. It will protect nighttime skies for pilots, make sure that they are safe, but it will also darken the nighttime skies. And that’s why we think that the communities where we’re testing this will really be happy with the way this turns out,” he says.

He says they will runs tests throughout the next year to see how everything works. “How weather may impact it, how things like ice may impact it. It just makes sure that it works as advertised,” Greenwood says. “And it’s something that we would like to look at for other Mid American wind farms.”

Greenwood says it may be a system they used with new wind farms and they could also look at a system for other wind farms as they take down components and replace them with new ones.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports a traffic stop at around 5-p.m. Tuesday in the 2300 block of Highway 71, resulted in the arrest of 64-year-old David Carroll, from Villisca. He was charged with OWI/1st offense with a .147 BAC. Carroll was being held in the Montgomery County Jail on a $1,000 cash bond.

Police in Red Oak say three juvenile females were arrested Tuesday afternoon, following an incident that occurred as classes were dismissing for the day at the Red Oak High School. Authorities report Police were notified about a fight that happened at the High School. After a brief investigation, a 15-year-old female was arrested for Assault and Disorderly Conduct. another 15-year-old female and a 17-year-old was arrested for Disorderly Conduct.

All the teens were cited into Juvenile Court and released to their parents.