At the time of his arrest, Tylor David Patrick was on parole for a 2014 Mitchell County vehicular homicide conviction.
“These facts and opinions look so similar.”
Brent Jennings is a winner. He has led Osage to multiple state championships. He has also led his industrial arts students to professional fields they can be proud of.
Though the branches of many deciduous trees are just beginning to bud, the land is flourishing with the season. Once, the ashes would have been green by now. This weekend, my family took a Sunday stroll past Lincoln Elementary School. The last time we had gone that way, it was one of the fir…
Renae Trettin always knew she wanted to work with children. Now she will get the opportunity to do just that. Trettin is retiring from her role as istrative assistant to Osage Superintendent Barb Schwamman, when she will start serving as a substitute teacher in Osage and surrounding schools.
Once upon a time, I perused the morel mushroom message boards to check the progress of the year’s crop. My brother, Grant, introduced me to this website many years ago. His birthday, April 10, and mine, May 4, generally bookend the season in southern Iowa — with occasionally wild variations.
After 27 years at Osage Community High School, Larry Grein is entering retirement, but that does not mean he is going to rest. He must keep moving. That is what he prefers, as opposed to having his nose in a book. That is what teaching shop is all about.
Solar and wind energy advocates contend that growth potential is practically endless.
Occasionally, I collide with my past in the form of laminated ID cards. Some I keep in my wallet as reminders. Others I have hidden from myself out of forgetfulness. I saw my University of Northern Iowa photograph in the folds of an old computer backpack one night this past week. Each card s…
It’s happened again.
Scattered around our old farm in southern Iowa were bricks and mortar from a house that stood there long before I was born, before our home was built. This was across the fence, past the chicken coop and the outbuildings with old newspapers and a plow. Most of this ancestral debris lay benea…
Before he died, we were speaking as if Alex Trebek was already dead. Though he had pancreatic cancer, in truth, he was just as alive as any of us. We may joke that his obituary was phrased in the form of a question, but for decades Trebek gave us a pure form of truth. Rarely during his progr…
Osage and Riceville Community School District Superintendent Barb Schwamman recently sat down with the Mitchell County Press News to discuss underfunding of public schools by the State of Iowa, as well as a potential decrease of federal funding because of the closure of the U.S. Department o…
Tyler Lee Schafer, 42, made his initial appearance before a magistrate Thursday in Mitchell County District Court on charges of possession of methamphetamine with intent to deliver, a Class B felony; failure to affix a drug tax stamp, a Class D felony; and possession of cannabidiol (second offense).
In my grandparents’ farmhouse, now vacant, behind the breakfront glass, there are a few photographs I stored for study when I finished a painting – I was an art major in undergrad – that I started as a present for my brother Grant’s 41st birthday, which he did not reach, as he died of cancer…
As far as economic development in Mitchell County goes, there are three main issues, and they are intertwined. Day care, housing and the workforce are always on Jennifer Backer’s mind. Backer is Mitchell County Economic Development Commission director.
For Aaron Holt, everything is local. On Saturday, March 29, he will journey to the Cedar Valley Seminary in Osage to share the insight he has gained from years as a farm-to-table master chef.
Jennifer wants me to find the positive in the time change — not to dwell upon how those without sleep disorders, children, common sense or critical thinking or reading skills attempt to manipulate us near the end of each winter. She wants me to stop thinking about the fact that the majority …
There is an unusual tendency among humans, that individuals or groups with less skill are usually the ones who claim their skill is superior. It happens often among children. It happens often among adults.
The Osage Community School District is looking for leaders. They are searching for them as young as fifth grade. Bill Carlson and Matt Gast think they have found them.
I grew up as far south of northern Iowa as you could get; I once lived on farmland on the Iowa side of the Missouri border. Once, every small town in Wayne County had a basketball team, from now unincorporated towns Sewal to Cambria to Clio. They took turns hosting the annual county tournament.
Todd Frein was born and raised in Mitchell County. For the first part of his life, he was all about his hometown. In 2020, when the Michell County Board of Supervisors expanded from three to five , Frein decided he could be all about the county instead of just Osage.
Several years ago, for several months, I assumed someone had stolen the CD case from my car. The case looks like a silver waffle iron with a black latch. People almost always chuckle when they see it because of what it looks like. A girl once used it as a mirror to fix her hair while we crui…