Last Friday a Carmi man filed a theft report saying that his car had been stolen. 64 year old Mark Winters told the White County Sheriff's Department that his silver 2005 GMC Yukon had been stolen sometime between August 1st and August 5th. Winters stated that there is a 4 inch by 4 inch section of the chrome plated bumper that was missing on either the front or back bumper of the vehicle. No more information about this case has been made available at this time. The Clay County Board moved swiftly through their agenda during Tuesday evening's regular monthly meeting at the Clay County Courthouse in Louisville. At the outset of the meeting the board approved the amended meeting agenda and past meeting minutes and then moved on to unanimously approve the Claims Committee Report. It shows Paid County Claims totaling $2,957,735 and Unpaid Claims of $945,099. Clay County 911 Coordinator Jennifer Brown presented her monthly report and shared details of the 911 Board meeting from Ju
5/9/21
Johnson County Republicans have chosen their candidate for an open seat on the Board of Supervisors.
Former Iowa City School Board member Phil Hemmingway had initially said he didn’t want to be nominated to run for the seat vacated by supervisor Janelle Rettig last month. But 11 of 19 delegates named Hemmingway as their candidate during a special meeting Saturday at the Miller Learning Center on Keokuk Street in Iowa City. Hemmingway will go on to face at least one Democratic challenger for the open seat, which has 20 months remaining on the term.
Hemmingway beat out former Marine Michah Broekemeier, who garnered the other eight votes, and licensed hemp grower Clay Warren, who received no votes.
Micah Broekemeier, a 29-year-old former Marine and history student at the University of Iowa, hopes to be the second Republican to win a Johnson County Supervisor spot in the last decade.
Broekemeier transferred to Iowa in 2020, in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic. But he said the transition from Iowa Western Community College wasn’t difficult.
“I had no college experience. I d never taken (college) classes or anything like that. I just showed up and said, ‘Hey, I guess this is how college works, right? ” Broekemeier said. “They told me things were a little different this year.”
He wasn’t in town for long before he caught wind of the area’s nickname, “The Peoples’ Republic of Johnson County.” And he wasn’t daunted by it.