June 14, 2011: The cornerstone of the original Preston school building is half-obscured by a 1950 addition.
The East Central school district, the easternmost in Iowa, is sharing this year with Northeast of Goose Lake. Many in the district are unhappy with the arrangement. They wanted a sharing agreement with Preston to the west instead, and had to get court approval for a vote to go through.
That vote passed Tuesday. (QC Times; see also WHBF) Not on the ballot was a tripleheader merger among the three, which seems like it would have been a good idea.
The proposed name is a partial agglomeration of the previous names to make one that is not readily identifiable with a location, something becoming more common in Iowa.
A side effect of this arrangement is likely to be that the elementary school in Sabula, Iowa’s easternmost school building, will close.