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1 week ago |
globegazette.com | Jason W. Selby
When Ben Levinson, CRNA, NSPM-C, is not relieving pain at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center, he is flying. He commutes to Osage from Decorah, where he lives with his wife and two children, Eleanor, 4, and Vivian, 2. “I’ve been coming here and helping out with anesthesia for six years,” Levinson said. Levinson is originally from Mason City, where he graduated from high school in 2008. His father was a physician, but Levinson never expected to go into medicine.
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2 weeks ago |
globegazette.com | Jason W. Selby
There are two extremes I have faced in life, outside of the normal tragedies of death and loss, of feeling in tune and as if there is a pattern inherent in the universe, to the second extreme, what is often referred to as "the dark night of the soul." In that condition, there is no sense to be made of the random events that only weigh us down and get heavier with age. It is a slot machine with no jackpot. There are numbers and reason, but the lights dim, the music stops.
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2 weeks ago |
globegazette.com | Jason W. Selby
On July 1, County Social Services and its 19 employees will be a part of history. That is because all 19 employees, 17 of which are full time, will be out of work. In turn, that is because the Iowa Legislature, signed into law by Gov. Kim Reynolds, passed a bill (HF2673) in 2024 eliminating mental health and disability service regions in Iowa.
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3 weeks ago |
globegazette.com | Jason W. Selby
Another birthday has passed. I have discovered I am only getting older, and not the other way around. I have known this for some time. In 2019 it was a good year for birthdays. My almost seven-year-old son Grant informed me I was now old. That made it official. He is now almost 13, but in my mind, no matter how old he gets, he will always be seven.
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3 weeks ago |
globegazette.com | Jason W. Selby
At the June 3 Mitchell County Board of Supervisors meeting, Mitchell County Engineer Rich Brumm reported that rock runs are proceeding in the north part of the county. On the Echo Avenue bridge, they are waiting on a guardrail. “Over a mile and up a little ways is another bridge on the same stream,” Brumm said, “that we’re looking at getting redone, too.”The Board of Supervisors approved a professional services agreement for Rock I-152 bridge.
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