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Dec
08
License Plate Letters — CZR
The sighting of a CZ-series plate in early December is a good bookend for 2014, and also signifies that it took 32 months for the first three letters of the alphabet to be run through. Remember, the letter-number combinations replaced … Continue reading
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Dec
07
Iowa State ties Rutgers in all-time losses
Because getting so humiliated in front of a national, undivided, broadcast TV audience that the opponent kneeled inside the 10-yard line with 5 minutes to go wasn’t enough. Oh no. Now comes the statistical part. Paul Rhoads has become mired in … Continue reading
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Dec
06
Major design changes coming to Iowa highway signage
Nov. 27, 2006: The then-new Ansborough Avenue interchange in Waterloo shows two signage trends that have become and are becoming standard in Iowa in the 2010s: Larger initial letters and skinny, squat arrows. The first appearance of non-Iowa-style traffic arrows … Continue reading
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Dec
04
Eagle Grove loses its stoplight
The Eagle Grove Eagle reported at the beginning of November that the stoplight at Broadway and Commercial (IA 17 and C54) no longer functions. The equipment is a quarter-century old and would need to be replaced. The intersection will be … Continue reading
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Dec
03
Seven votes
The combined vote total in Farragut and Hamburg to merge their school districts would have formed a supermajority in favor, but each district must vote separately. Hamburg opposed reorganization by seven votes. Not quite 1000 votes were cast overall, but it’s … Continue reading
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Dec
02
Farragut, Hamburg vote on merger today
In far southwest Iowa today, the Hamburg and Farragut school districts are voting on consolidation to become Nishnabotna. There have been plenty of meetings on the issue, with slightly higher stakes than a normal school merger because of the potential … Continue reading
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Dec
01
Belated recap of the US 34 opening ceremony
Six weeks late is better than never, right? My recent relocation made traveling to a highway opening in western Iowa a little more involved. But with an early morning ceremony Oct. 22, I likely would’ve been staying overnight in Council … Continue reading
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Nov
28
Ackley elementary moves mid-semester
It is very rare for an Iowa school building to close during the school year, but that’s what just happened at Ackley Elementary. Students packed up their things and left the old building for the last time Tuesday. The elementary, … Continue reading
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Nov
27
SBNation features Jack Trice story
Here’s your long Thanksgiving weekend read. New to me is this old, pre-Internet, pre-radio really, way of keeping up with the game: Back in Ames, Cora Mae took the streetcar into campus and headed to State Gym, where the Cyclone fans … Continue reading
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Nov
26
Crystal Lake and Corwith: Two buildings on divergent paths
July 6, 2011: Woden-Crystal Lake-Titonka High School in Crystal Lake. First, the good news: The old WCLT school building in Crystal Lake was sold to a private owner after WCL merged with Forest City, and the owners want to have … Continue reading
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