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August 13, 2025 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Sixty one degrees. Good morning, I'm Tom Robinson with keys
soam keys ninety five, News eighty two. The high today
sixty three, the low tonight eighty four. On Thursday low
sixty seven, Friday eighty nine, low seventy two, Saturday ninety one,
low seventy two, and eighty nine on Sunday. Sunday night
sixty nine. There's a thirty five percent chance for some

(00:27):
scattered thunderstorms mid eighties to high on Monday, twenty five
percent chance for storm sixty seven, the low thirty percent
chants for storms, and then Tuesday eighty two for a
high well. I was now virtually drought free thanks to
record amounts of rainfall last month. The US Drought Monitor
shows just one percent of I with abnormally dry conditions,
just Wampolo County, parts of Monroe and Davis Counties in

(00:50):
the southwest corner of the state. The number was forty
five percent at the end of June. Parts of the
states over nine inches of rain last month, making it
the second wettestly of her one hundred and fifty years.
A red ok Man is in custody on felony theft charges.
The Montgomery County Shoff's office arrested sixty seven year old
Randall Dean Cooper on Tuesday in the sixteen hundred block

(01:12):
of two hundred Street and charge of second degree theft
to Class D felony. Deputies transported Cooper to the Montgomery
County Jail and held him at a five thousand dollars
bond well. A former Iowa ex Community College administrator issuing
the school, Aaron Latona's the former chief academic officer at ILCC.
She is accusing the school of misusing federal aid and

(01:33):
grand funds while falsifying enrollment numbers. Latona claims she was
fired earlier this year retaliation for blowing the whistle on
the accusations of financial misconduct. Her lawsuit demands a jury trial.
She seeks reparations and reinstatement at the college will The
Potawanammee County Board of Supervisors is moving forward with plans

(01:54):
to hire an interim engineer through an agreement with a
neighboring county.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
After the meeting last week, it reached out to some
of the county Scott first.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
One I called said yes, So I didn't really reach
out much after that.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
So that's Mills County and he can start immediately their
board approves. It is zoomy. It's my understanding.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
The ninety day contract is pending approval by the Mills
County Board of Supervisors now. The move comes after months
of transition within the county's Engineer's office. On May twenty seventh,
the board terminated this contract of County Engineer John Rasmussen
and placed him on administrative leave. Assistant Engineer Brandon Burmeister
was appointed interim engineer and at that time, but he

(02:43):
left the position in August fifth. In the meantime, the
county has been working toward filling the position permanently. On
July twenty ninth, the supervisors voted three to two to
extend an offer to one of the candidates in a
viewed for the role, but is unknown whether that offer
stands at this time. Advisors also proved establishing a hiring
committee for the Human Resource Director position and approved the

(03:07):
addendum to the resignation, Acceptance and Release agreement for Jena
Limerick Well. The Atlantic Airport Council, Bus Municipal Airport, and
Creston Airport are part of the Iowa Transportation Commissions nine
point six million dollars for the fiscal ar twenty twenty
six State Aviation Program funding airports, safety, planning and development

(03:29):
projects across the state. The Atlantic Airport will receive ninety
one thousand dollars to state share for East Taxi Lane extension.
The Airport Improvement Program will receive six point seven million
for safety initiative, system planning, and air service development as
well as infrastructure upgrades at twenty five airports. Eligible to
projects include runaway and taxiway improvements, navigational aids, weather system maintenance,

(03:53):
and wildlife hazard mitigation. Aviation Vertical Infrastructure programs received two
point nine million for facility the improvements at four general
aviation airports and eight to commercial service airports. These funds
support terminal buildings, maintenance facilities, and hangars. Guthrie County Health
Services Director Jonathan Arber says they will host a back

(04:15):
to school healthfare for the public and Stewart today. Arbor
told the Guthrie County Supervisors and Tuesdays meeting that they
will be doing a number of different services for kids
and adults.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
At the healthcare will be offering through physicals, fredential screenings,
free light screenings, will have haircuts, for kids. We've got backpacks,
seve one hundred and twenty backpacks sitting at Bethel's department.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
We're going to give out I think.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
We decided on thirty at each school that we have
in county and they have school supplies and have some
high gien supplies, some socks and some other things like that.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Barbara also says there will be some inflatables for kids
to play and including one in the shape of a
giant heart, and they will be grilling hot donks. Arbora
also said they will have a resource table as well
as health information. He did say they have to obtain
a license to do the haircuts now. The clinic will
be held at West Central Valley Schools and Stuart today
between five pm and seven pm. The Public Health will

(05:14):
also have a clinic in Panoram on Tuesday, August nineteenth,
and Guthrie Center at the Elementary School on Wednesday, August twentieth,
and in Autumni Thursday, August the twenty first. Undother Iowa
state representative announcing a challenge to Jony Ernst. Josh Trurik
of Council Bluffs joins a crowded Democratic primary field for
the US Senate next year. He joins former radio journalist

(05:38):
Nathan Sage of Indianola, State Senator Zach Walls of Coralville,
and state Representative J. D. Schulton of Sioux City and
former teacher of the Moines School Board member Jackie Norris.
Turik carried his Council Bluffs Legislative district in back to
back elections. More news on the website at Western Iowa
Today dot com. ABC News is next
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