The Decorah city council will meet in a work session tonight. The topics of discussion will include community visioning and economic development tools. The work session will begin at five-15 at city hall.
The Winneshiek county board of supervisors will look to set a public hearing on a UTV ordinance at its meeting today. A group met with the board this summer to present a proposed oridnance to allow ATV and UTV usage on certain gravel roads. The board will also hear a financial presentation from Winneshiek Medical Center representatives. The board will also discuss road and zoning matters. The meeting will begin at nine-30 at the courthouse annex building in Decorah.
An Ossian man was arrested last Thursday in connection to a federal drug investigation. The Winneshiek county sheriff’s department says 25 year old Chase Heying was arrested on a warrant with the original charges of two counts of felony conspiracy to deliver herion and failure to affix a drug tax stamp. Authorities say another arrest warrant has been issued in the case. On June sixth of 2017, authorities arrested Kaleb and Cole Breitsprecher of Ossian after a federal search warrant was executed.
Decorah street department crews will be picking up leaves curbside in wards one and two in Decorah this week. The pickup in those parts of town will run through Friday of this week. Leaves can be dropped off anytime at the street department shop on Railroad avenue. The city’s yard waste disposal site on Trout Run Road is also available for leaf disposal weekdays from eight a.m. until three p.m. and Saturdays from eight a.m. until noon.
Iowa’s unemployment rate in September stayed at 2.5-percent – unchanged from August. Iowa Workforce Development spokesperson Cory Kelly says only Hawaii has a lower jobless rate, which rose to 2.2-percent last month.
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This is the lowest the unemployment rate in Iowa has been since of May of 2000.
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