http://www.freemanjournal.netTop Headlinesen-usWed, 20 Aug 2008 07:07:05 EDTWed, 20 Aug 2008 07:07:05 EDThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://www.freemanjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/501909.htmlHamilton Hospital staff, architects, designers and planners have been working hard to develop a plan for new hospital building since it was learned in February that local residents Bob and Mary Van Diest would donate $10 million toward the construction of a new hospital.Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:46:20 EDThttp://www.freemanjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/501910.htmlSTANHOPE - Stanhope residents are a little closer to voting on granting Xenia Rural Water District a franchise to operate water and waste water facility services following action by the city council at their August meeting.Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:47:15 EDThttp://www.freemanjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/501911.htmlJEWELL - City councilmen in Jewell faced a variety of agenda items when they met for their first meeting of August. Brian Lammers attended the meeting to request a letter of support from the city for a $35,900 REAP grant application for the new trail between Jewell and Ellsworth. The council okayed the request.Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:48:06 EDThttp://www.freemanjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/501906.htmlWOOLSTOCK - The largest Catholic women's organization in the world will be led for the next two years by a rural Woolstock woman. Helen Arndorfer was elected national director of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas during the group's Biennial National Convention held earlier this summer in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:17:40 EDThttp://www.freemanjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/501907.htmlJEWELL - A recent article in the Des Moines Register that listed South Hamilton as one of 60 schools across the state projected to have a negative unspent balance at the end of either fiscal year 2008 or fiscal year 2009 was addressed by the school board there when they met for their August meeting.Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:18:32 EDT