(It’s a slow news week, folks.)
September 30, 2015: The Akron Casey’s is behind the signs for the IA 3/12 intersection and relocated end of the Loess Hills Scenic Byway.
The northwest Iowa town of Akron is getting a new Casey’s, the Le Mars Sentinel reports. This has only a thin string of relevance to this blog as it is the westernmost in the state (and yes, I have stopped there). A new gas station will be built on the southeast corner of the IA 3/12 intersection shown above. This is possible because the Iowa DOT closed the Akron maintenance shed/snowplow garage four months ago, along with Sabula (the easternmost site), Rock Valley (also in northwest Iowa), and four other locations. The DOT garage will be demolished.
Mother Nature decided to get the demolition under way a bit early by peeling off the top of one of the DOT sheds on Christmas Day, the Akron Hometowner reports.
The Sentinel article also mentions something about the convenience store chain’s history: The Casey’s style that was typical until about a decade ago dates back to the late 1970s.