Monthly Archives: February 2016

Feb 17

Clutier’s 1942 championship team remembered

Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The Gazette looks back at small-town six-on-six champions from eastern Iowa from the first half of the 20th century. (Coincidentally, the listing of the towns one by one is the same narrative plan I had for something else involving girls’ … Continue reading →

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Feb 16

Diagonal last sub-100-enrollment school standing

Posted on Tuesday, February 16, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Iowa’s 2015-16 certified enrollment numbers were released last month. There was no press release dedicated to it (the annual Condition of Education report comes out at the same time). The overall public enrollment ticked up, but it’s from a trough … Continue reading →

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Feb 15

Mediapolis bypass, IA 78 interchange part of US 61 plans

Posted on Monday, February 15, 2016, at 11:00 AM by Jeff

Iowa’s last rural segment of US 61 that isn’t four lanes north of Keokuk is between Burlington and Grandview, and a meeting in Mediapolis on Tuesday is about closing that gap. The existing five-year plan has US 61 four-laned from … Continue reading →

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Feb 12

iPhoto Places thrown onto Apple’s abandonware heap

Posted on Friday, February 12, 2016, at 10:03 AM by Jeff

Apple said, We upped our photo-management system…now up yours! [This is a rant that needed to be written seven months ago, when the event actually happened, but nothing would have changed if it had. I know that, you know that, … Continue reading →

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Feb 11

Great River Road to be signed like other Iowa byways

Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2016, at 10:10 AM by Jeff

I travel the whole thing and THEN it gets new pretty signs. May 14, 2010: The current style of Great River Road shields in Iowa is a square smaller than square highway shields. This is at the north end of … Continue reading →

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Feb 10

Keokuk no longer a ‘control city’ on I-172

Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2016, at 10:05 AM by Jeff

April 20, 2008: Former sign at a road intersecting I-172 in Adams County, Illinois. I-172 is an interstate spur in far western Illinois connecting Quincy to Interstate 72. For decades, I-72 ended where I-172 began, until a new bridge across … Continue reading →

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Feb 09

There is a piece of Vermont that sticks into New Hampshire

Posted on Tuesday, February 9, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

A combination of having politics and state borders on the mind… The Connecticut River forms the border between Vermont and New Hampshire, two states that would fit comfortably inside Iowa. Halls Creek forms the western part of the border between … Continue reading →

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Feb 08

DOT plans to change cloverleaf at 35/30

Posted on Monday, February 8, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

March 25, 2010: It turns out I’ve only photographed this exit once because watching for merging traffic takes priority. There are fewer pure cloverleaf interchanges in Iowa than you might think, but two of them – I-80/I-380 and I-35/US 30 … Continue reading →

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Feb 05

Sullivan’s corner on the Iowa-Missouri line

Posted on Friday, February 5, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Along Iowa’s southern border, a string of nearly forgotten iron posts marks where Iowa ends and Missouri begins. The westernmost marker, once the northwest corner of Missouri, is today at the southernmost point in the slightly bent line west of … Continue reading →

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Feb 04

Input wanted on improving I-80

Posted on Thursday, February 4, 2016, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

If you haven’t been all focused on the caucuses, you may have noticed a few news articles about the DOT undergoing an all-encompassing study on I-80. Right now, the study is about asking for input; it’s an “online public information … Continue reading →

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