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Oskaloosa’s Musco Lighting lends a hand on ABC's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition'
OSKALOOSA — It says it right on their business cards.
“We make it happen.”
And it was certainly the mindset Musco employees took with them when they went to help rebuild a Little League park in Boynton Beach, Fla. -
Oskaloosa promotes the opportunity to read
OSKALOOSA — National Library Week, April 2 through 8, is the time to celebrate reading! Reading is the beginning of all knowledge, the doorway through which we gain access to our world.
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An end to TouchPlay: But what about Oskaloosa?
OSKALOOSA — Like almost every community in Iowa, Oskaloosa has been touched by TouchPlay.
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New shoe store opens in Penn Central Mall
OSKALOOSA — “We want to be the mom-and-pop destination store for shoes,” says Brett Schmidt, area manager of the new Shoe Sensation, which is located in Penn Central Mall.
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Lecture on Frank Lloyd Wright and Grant Wood given as part of Food for Thought noon lecture series
OSKALOOSA — Grant Wood and Frank Lloyd Wright — two Midwestern artists, who lived concurrently, seemed never to have met, and, at first glance would have appeared to have widely divergent styles.
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Hawkeye basketball legend Jess Settles speaks at Vennard College
UNIVERSITY PARK — Hawkeye basketball legend Jess Settles spoke at an event sponsored by the Iowa Quaker Men (Friends) at Vennard College’s Student Center Dining Hall on Saturday.
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Gone fishin’
OSKALOOSA — Although there was no ice on the ponds at the Russell Wildlife Area Saturday afternoon a few hearty souls ventured out into icy breezes to fish.
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North Mahaska school official explains tax levies
NEW SHARON — The North Mahaska School Board recently passed a portion of their levies with management and PPEL levies being voted in, but what is the deal with these levies? What are they and what do they mean to both the taxpayer and the schools involved?
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Mefford finds niche as Mahaska County Attorney
OSKALOOSA — “I grew up around a lot of strong women — aunts, grandmothers — who encouraged me to develop opinions and to go after what I wanted.”
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Osky church ‘a total loss,’ but is looking toward ‘a new beginning’
OSKALOOSA — A fire, originating in the basement of the Oskaloosa First Church of the Nazarene, claimed the church building Saturday night as firefighters battled the blaze early into the morning.
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