Charlene Sims, Journal staff

By Charlene Sims linncountyjournal@icloud.com MOUND CITY – The Linn County Commissioners received reports from the ambulance and fire department services on Monday, Dec. 1. Fire Chief Randy Hegwald reported that there were 16 total calls for the past week which brings the yearly total up to 548 calls. Hegwald said that it had been a very busy weekend on the fire department side and he appreciated all the crews. He said that there had been a couple of big incidents and that crews spent quite a...

MOUND CITY – On Monday, Dec. 1, the Linn County Commissioners, county counselor Jacklyn Paletta, and newly appointed County Clerk Chasity Ware met with auditor Rodney Burns for 15 minutes in executive session. Commission Chair Jim Johnson said that there was no action from the executive session. Later in a phone call with Ware about the meeting with the auditor, she said that it was just standard procedure to have an auditor look over the county’s books before a new county clerk took over...

By Charlene Sims linncountyjournal@icloud.com MOUND CITY – Linn County employees nearly missed, and some did miss, Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales after an error with the Linn County payroll stopped their checks from being direct deposited to their accounts on Friday. No information was offered about this during the Monday, Dec. 1, Linn County Commission meeting until the end of Linn County Health Department Director Amanda Snyder’s presentation when Snyder asked if there had been an...