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Monthly Archives: August 2014
Aug
19
US 20 construction in Woodbury County
There’s some grading and the beginnings of culverts for a four-lane US 20 between Moville and Correctionville, reports KCAU*. After traveling current 20 and old 20 in the area earlier this summer, before any construction began, I can see why … Continue reading
Posted in Construction, Highway Miscellaneous
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Aug
18
Unclear on the concept dept., county annexation division
“A Clinton teen was named Miss Scott County…” Wait, what? Of four winners crowned in the Miss Scott County pageant Saturday, only one of them lives in Scott County.
Posted in Iowa Miscellaneous
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Aug
17
Tipping sacred cows in Illinois
And we’ll have pun, pun, pun ’til our daddy takes the keyboard away… Chicago Tribune (bonus points for using the word ‘kerfuffle’): Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn is milking an Upstate-Downstate kerfuffle with Republican Bruce Rauner’s running mate over an udderly … Continue reading
Posted in Geography
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Aug
17
Quote of the week
Mary Walk, master gardener: “I was born and raised in Woden so I still consider myself kind of a city girl.” Woden’s population is 229.
Posted in Iowa Miscellaneous
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Aug
15
College hardware at the Varied Industries Building
If you want to see a bunch of college trophies in one place, you don’t have to go any further than this year’s Iowa State Fair. The universities are showing off their trophies in their booths at the Varied Industries … Continue reading
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Aug
14
Hamburg and Farragut: Shotgun wedding or else
April 15, 2009: When Farragut and Hamburg became Nishnabotna, Iowa lost one of its unique team names, the Admirals and Admiralettes/Adettes. The Farragut girls won the state basketball title in 1971, and Steve Buttry wrote about it in 1996. (Part … Continue reading
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Aug
13
A short history of the Iowa DOT
The Iowa State Daily is writing about Ames’ sesquicentennial (150th anniversary). Last week, there was a piece about the Iowa Department of Transportation, which started out as part of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. The Iowa DOT remains … Continue reading
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Aug
13
Union County construction update
The Union County area has a handful of construction projects going on this month. One of them, technically in Adams County, has resulted in a detour for US 34 west of Kent, using IA 25 and old IA 49 via … Continue reading
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Aug
12
Iowa adds online specialty plate applications
Previously, Iowans looking for vanity (or as they like to call them now, “personalized”) and specialty license plates could look online and even type characters in to see how it would look, but couldn’t finish the process or see if … Continue reading
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Aug
12
Muscatine renames short street, seeks reclassification of old IA 92
Last week’s Muscatine City Council meeting included two items of interest for map geeks. One was renaming a short stub of Cherry Street near Eighth Street to Juniper Street, and it looks like Google is already on it, which comes … Continue reading
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