http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_090155956.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_090155956.html 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. Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:44:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_089144144.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_089144144.html 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. Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:47:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_088114716.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_088114716.html OSKALOOSA — Like almost every community in Iowa, Oskaloosa has been touched by TouchPlay. Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:05:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_083140448.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_083140448.html 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. Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:34:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_069111523.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_069111523.html 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. Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:14:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_051124834.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_051124834.html 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. Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:42:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_038124051.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_038124051.html 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. Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:15:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_032190543.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_032190543.html 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? Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:13:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_026211235.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_026211235.html 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.” Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:03:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_023225523.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_023225523.html 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. Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:03:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_006120344.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_006120344.html OSKALOOSA — Unlike a post-holiday slump, which could be characterized as a “situational” depression that is likely to pass as conditions change, Seasonal Affective Disorder is more likely organic in nature, the result of physiological changes in the body. Thu, 29 Dec 2005 20:48:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_363204734.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_363204734.html OSKALOOSA — It was a Merry Christmas for Gretta, after all. And life hasn’t always been so merry for the purebred German short-hair pointer. Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:30:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_349113452.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_349113452.html OSKALOOSA — The abandoned coal mine south of Oskaloosa on the Roozeboom property has been tabbed for reclamation. Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:36:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_346113539.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_346113539.html OSKALOOSA — With strains of “The Christmas Song,” “Little Drummer Boy” and “Hark! the Herald, Angels Sing,” playing, several friends and family members of Andrew Van Engelenhoven packed Spaghetti’s Sunday afternoon for a benefit in his honor. Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:00:00 +0000 http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_334105946.html http://www.clintonherald.com/oskaloosa/features/local_story_334105946.html OSKALOOSA — Just in time for Christmas, the Book Vault will be opening its doors.The new book store on Market Street, next to Smokey Row, will be open to the public for a “sneak peek” during the Lighted Christmas Parade on Thursday and Friday.