Monthly Archives: April 2012

Apr 18

Pat Summitt stepping down

Summitt on the sidelines vs. Baylor, March 26, 2012 My tickets for the 2012 NCAA Women’s Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight games were right across from the Tennessee bench. I finally had a chance to see coaching legend Pat Summitt … Continue reading

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Apr 18

Woden-Crystal Lake’s dissolution dilemma

WCLT High School sign in Crystal Lake, July 2011. The “Titonka” plank has been removed. At the end of last school year, the Woden-Crystal Lake and Titonka school districts went their separate ways. WCL started a sharing agreement with Forest … Continue reading

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Apr 18

Meeting on US 61

Last week, reported in the Burlington Hawk Eye. With the completion of the Fort Madison bypass and rerouting onto interstates in the Quad Cities, the only two-lane stretches of US 61 in the state are the 32-mile segment between Burlington … Continue reading

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Apr 16

Photos by the numbers: End sequence

You knew it had to come some time, right? Well, I finally got tired of going through the same 10,000-odd photos (after sorting out inapplicable categories) in search of one more number. So there aren’t going to be scheduled posts … Continue reading

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Apr 15

Photos by the numbers: 165 and 166

July 10, 2008: Norfolk, Virginia. Look at the middle shield. It is for “US 166,” which exists half a continent away. This is US 13’s first/last stoplight on this side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

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Apr 15

Maquoketa Caves reopen

KWWL and the Quad-City Times have stories. Until 2003, the state park was the destination of IA 428, the highest signed non-900 designation in the Iowa highway system.

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Apr 14

Titanic centennial

The last 1912 photo of the Titanic, taken by Father Frank Browne My first encounters with the story of the Titanic were in Robert Ballard’s book Exploring the Titanic in fifth grade and the December 1985 and December 1986 issues … Continue reading

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Apr 14

Photos by the numbers: 164

April 9, 2004: Once US 30 was expanded to four lanes around Colo, an exit tab was added to this sign. The interchange was constructed along with the realigned 30 in the 1960s but tapered back to two on either … Continue reading

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Apr 13

Photos by the numbers: 163

May 31, 2005: Business 163 passes a stub of old IA 163 to meet the west end of the Pella bypass.

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Apr 12

Photos by the numbers: 162

September 13, 2011: Mile markers on wooden posts are rare in Iowa, but here’s one, in Appanoose County, at what was an end of IA 142. Just to the south is a short segment of old IA 2, which separated … Continue reading

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