Today's News

    TABOR - You can tell a coach has high expectations for his football team when a 56-8 win gets you an A-minus grade.
    But that’s exactly the marks Fremont-Mills football coach Jeremy Christiansen gave his team after Friday’s non-conference victory over East Union.
    “I think just for the fact we didn’t get our No. 1’s in for long and we still have a few things to work on,” the coach said of his team’s grade.

The roles and responsibilities of the Mills County Conservation Board and its staff continue to grow.

    In fact, since Jerad Getter became the Mills County Conservation Director and many of the current board members were appointed five years ago, the area of land being maintained by the conservation board has more than tripled.
    “When we all kind of started here, we were taking care of 511 acres and now we’re taking care of about 1,737,” Getter said.

Ask 7-year-old Landen Achenbach what he is excited to do while in Des Moines to attend the Iowa State Fair, and he will happily tell you.

“Go swimming! And we (Achenbach and his parents) get to stay in a hotel!”

Swimming, however, is only one part of the weekend. At 9 a.m. on Friday, Achenbach will be one of 70 first-and second-grade students from across the state who will participate in the Iowa State Fair Spelling Bee.

Iowa was notified late last week by Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate that the state’s request for activation of the Federal Individual Assistance Program for Fremont, Harrison, Monona, Pottawattamie and Woodbury counties has been denied.

Mills County was not included in the original request due to a low number of significantly affected homes in our area during the original assessment process.