May 10, 2010: Now that the school in Lytton is closed will the billboard come down too? Or should it stay up as a historical memento?
The special election Tuesday (most know for Warren County voting against a casino) included at least two school consolidation votes.
Jefferson-Scranton and East Greene will officially become Greene County in 2014. This is a smart name change. (Your move, Paton-Churdan.)
Rockwell City-Lytton and Southern Cal will complete the consolidation to South Central Calhoun in 2014. Both have been in whole-grade sharing for a while. Southern Cal won two football championships in a row in 2008-09, defeating North Tama and Mason City Newman in classic games. Lytton’s school building closed at the same time. The district occupies about 5/8 of Calhoun County.
SCC’s sports teams are known as the Titans. Oddly enough, not too far away, there is another recent pair of team-sharers that picked the name Titans and is ALSO purple, silver, and black — Graettinger-Terril/Ruthven-Ayrshire. GTRA is moving to the Twin Lakes Conference; its old home, the Corn Belt Conference, has suffered a WAC-esque collapse as schools consolidate and switch affiliations.