Author Archives: Jeff

Jun 03

July-August 2019 photos added

Posted on Wednesday, June 3, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

I’ve added photos taken at the beginning and end of what were not Iowa-specific trips, but rather the start and end of longer ones, last summer. Here is a list of major and minor additions to pages in chronological order … Continue reading →

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Jun 01

Gribblenation drives US 20

Posted on Monday, June 1, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The gribblenation.com website is one of the older surviving roadgeek-related websites, currently with five contributors. One of the contributors, who had very little experience in Iowa, drove a mix of old and new US 20 across the state last year … Continue reading →

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May 29

Notes on 2021-25 highway plan

Posted on Friday, May 29, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The Iowa Transportation Commission released its draft 2021-25 five-year construction plan at its meeting earlier this month. I guess I can’t really call it in analysis if I’m just condensing the existing information? Anyway, here are current estimated completions (in … Continue reading →

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May 27

IA 14 to be detoured through Beaman

Posted on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

IA 14 will be closed between IA 96 and IA 175 this summer for a concrete overlay project starting next week, a press release from the DOT says. The official detour uses T29 between 96 and 14. The work technically … Continue reading →

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May 24

Speaking of plagues spreading across the land

Posted on Sunday, May 24, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

MLB traditionalists won’t like it, but the universal DH is coming The designated hitter rule is coming to the National League for the first time this year. It will vanish again in 2021 in the NL, with the division and league schedules … Continue reading →

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May 22

Part of original Fort Madison found

Posted on Friday, May 22, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

December 18, 2006: Based on archaeological evidence found in 2020, this photo’s position is practically on top of a War of 1812-era fort. IA 2’s east end was moved west after the opening of the US 61 bypass. About a … Continue reading →

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May 21

Reinbeck cancels Independence Day weekend

Posted on Thursday, May 21, 2020, at 12:10 PM by Jeff

Announced Tuesday. 🙁 It is with heavy heart that the Citizens of Reinbeck 4th of July Committee and Reinbeck City Council have jointly decided not to have this years July 4th festivities. UPDATE: Dysart cancelled last week.

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May 20

Lincoln Highway program honored

Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

October 23, 2019: An interpretive panel about Henry Ostermann, a Lincoln Highway Association official who died in a car accident east of Montour, was placed in Tama County in 2019. A press release from Prairie Rivers of Iowa (linked here … Continue reading →

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May 19

Centerville, Knoxville, Pella losing their newspapers

Posted on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

The Centerville Daily Iowegian, Pella Chronicle, and Knoxville News-Sentinel, all of which have been around for about a century and a half, have become victims of the coronavirus. The first, which stopped publishing a Monday paper 14 months ago and stopped … Continue reading →

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May 18

Traer Star-Clipper, 1883-2020

Posted on Monday, May 18, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

December 25, 2018: The former (and most famous) home of the Traer Star-Clipper, downtown Traer. “It is with extreme modesty that we take upon us the duty of editor, for we feel that its paths are not always paths of … Continue reading →

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