Stories from Monday, October 5, 2020

COVID-19 precautions have led to the decision that Buena Vista University will move all of its annual Homecoming activities online. Events and activities will take place from Thursday, October 8 through Saturday, October 10. There will be live video of many Homecoming events available through the Beavers Together group on Facebook. ...

On Wednesday night the River Valley School Board approved an operational sharing agreement with Hinton to share Ken Slater as superintendent for the remainder of the 2020/2021 school year. The decision was made after the board had previously voted on a goal to increase operational sharing in order to help the district’s financial situation which had been impacted by declining enrollment. ...

On the morning of September 30, students from Washington High School held a Suicide Prevention Walk. The event was in collaboration with Cherokee Regional Medical Center. CRMC is partnered with Senior Life Solutions to host a suicide prevention awareness virtual walk from September 28th through October 4th. ...

Leonard Paul Pope, Sr, 94 of Nevada, passed away on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at the Moore-Few Care Center in Nevada. Leonard was born on January 4, 1926 in Beason, IL to Schuyler and Susie (Conway) Pope. On March 18, 1946 he was married to Bonnie Peterson and she preceded him in death on July 13, 2012...

Regarding the 2020 Presidential Debate last week That’s the President of the United States? That guy? Gee whiz. Who’s Vice President - Hannibal Lector? Who’s his cabinet - the Third Reich? But hey, just like everybody else with a shred of decency and humanity, to hell with that guy. We’re all done. If he’s re-elected he’s re-elected. If you vote for him, you deserve each other. Have at it. Take us all the way down. It’s where we’re headed and have been for four years...